Sam Hird

Baritone Sam Hird joined the Jette Parker Artists Programme in the 2025/26 season. He trained at the Royal College of Music where he won the Tagore Gold Medal. He made his Royal Opera debut in the title role of Telemann’s Pimpinone in the Linbury Theatre and his main stage Covent Garden debut as Baron Douphol (La traviata).

Other roles include Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Danilo (The Merry Widow), Ramiro (L’heure espagnole), Biagio (Don Giovanni Tenorio), Ambassador (La bella dormente nel bosco) for the RCM, Peer (Grieg’s Peer Gynt) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and baritone soloist in Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem with the Liverpool Philharmonic. He made his Wigmore Hall debut in 2024 in a recital of songs by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Joseph Horovitz. He is a Samling Artist and won the 2024 Clonter Opera Prize, the Peter Hulsen Orchestral Song Competition with the Sinfonia Smith Square, and the Prix Thierry Mermod at the Verbier Festival in 2023, where he was part of the Atelier Lyrique.

2025/26 Royal Opera roles include Mityukha (Boris Godunov), Marullo (Rigoletto) and Mark, Hewson and Krumpelblatt in the JPAP chamber productions of The Departure, Making Arrangements and Four Sisters. Cover roles include Papageno (The Magic Flute) and Schaunard (La bohème).