Bass-baritone Sam Carl was a member of the Opera Studio at Dutch National Opera (2019-21); he was a Jerwood Artist at the Glyndebourne Festival in 2019 and an Equilibrium Artist - mentored by Barbara Hannigan - during the 2020/21 season.
In the 2024/25 Season, Sam will return to Dutch National Opera in two new productions: as Hobson in Barbora Horáková’s Peter Grimes conducted by Lorenzo Viotti and as Die Geisterböte in Katie Mitchell's Die Frau ohne Schatten conducted by Marc Albrecht; he will return to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Astradamors Le Grand Macabre; he will make his role debut as Alidoro in a new production of La cenerentola at the Opéra national de Lorraine, and will also sing this role in Caen, Reims and Luxembourg; Sam will make his role debut as Timur ia Christof Loy's new production of Turandot at Theater Basel and he will appear with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in a concert performance of House of the Dead at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, while at Glyndebourne he will appear as the Bass Soloist in A Child of Our Time conducted by Adam Hickox, and he make his debut in the United States as Nick Shadow in a new production of The Rake's Progress for Des Moines Metro Opera.
Sam’s appearances last season included his return to the Bayerische Staatsoper as Astradamors in a new production of Le Grand Macabre directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Kent Nagano, he made his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona as Prince Gremin in Christof Loy's production of Eugene Onegin; and sang his first Leporello Don Giovanni and Achilla Giulio Cesare for the Glyndebourne Festival; at Dutch National Opera he appeared as La Talpa/Il tabarro and Betto di Signa/Gianni Schicci in Barrie Kosky’s new staging of Il trittico conducted by Lorenzo Viotti and he appeared in a new staging of Haydn’s Die Schöpfung at the Opéra national de Lorraine. On the concert platform, Sam made his debuts with the the London Symphony Orchestra; the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dutch Radio Orchestra.
In the 2022/23 season, Sam returned to Dutch National Opera as Der Holzhacker in Christof Loy’s new production of Königskinder conducted by Marc Albrecht and to the Glyndebourne Festival as Nick Shadow The Rake’s Progress conducted by Robin Ticciati; he made his debuts at Opéra de Montpelier in a concert performance of the Verdi Requiem and as Starek in Katie Mitchell’s production of Jenufa for the Palau de les Arts, Valencia.
In the 2021/22 season, Sam made his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Panthée in a new production of Les Troyens; on the Glyndebourne Tour he appeared as Nick Shadow; at the Staatstheater Darmstadt he made his debut as Colline La bohème and also in the title role of Don Quichotte in a new production directed by Mariame Clément and he made his debut for Opera Vlaanderen singing Mephistopheles, Evil Spirit and Pater Profundus in a new production of Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust conducted by Philippe Herreweghe.
In concert, Sam recently appeared with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra as the 2nd Sacerdote Il Prigioniero conducted by Franck Ollu at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; as the Bass Soloist Verdi’s Requiem with the Deutsche Philharmonie Merck conducted by Ben Palmer at Kloster Eberbach and in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Copenhagen Philharmonic at the Tivoli Gardens.