Samuel Sakker
TENOR
Winner of the 2017 Wagner Society Singing Competition, Northern Ireland-based Australian tenor Samuel Sakker is a former company principal of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and alumnus of the JPYAP.
Video & Audio
Samuel Sakker | Isolde kommt.......Kurwenal siehst du es nicht | Act 3 Tristan und Isolde
Samuel Sakker | Siegmund Excerpt | Die Walküre | 1st orchestral rehearsal - February 2022
Samuel Sakker | Ein Schwert | Siegmund | Die Walküre | 1st orchestral rehearsal - February 2022
Samuel Sakker | Winterstürme | Die Walküre | 1st orchestral rehearsal - February 2022
Samuel Sakker | Faust | Faust et Hélène | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Samuel Sakker | Erik Act 3 Aria | Der Fliegende Holländer | Wagner
Samuel Sakker | My dreams are all shattered | A child of our time | Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Samuel Sakker | Der Trunkene Im Frühling | Das Lied Von Der Erde | Mahler | Royal Opera House
Sakker’s operatic highlights include Tristan Tristan und Isolde (Opéra National de Lorraine; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Opera Théâtre de Caen,); Erik Der Fliegende Holländer (Opéra Angers-Nantes; Opéra de Rennes; Nederlandse Reisopera; Cape Town Opera); Siegmund Die Walküre (Melbourne Opera); Florestan Fidelio (Lyric Opera Ireland); Boris & Tikhon Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera); Don Josè Carmen (Danish National Opera); Pollione Norma & Macduff Macbeth (Melbourne Opera); Cavaradossi Tosca (ETO); Federico L'arlesiana (Opera Holland Park); Macduff Macbeth (Grange Festival Opera & Melbourne Opera); Rodolfo La bohème (Scottish Opera); Alfredo La traviata (Royal Opera House; New Zealand Opera; Melbourne Opera); and subsequent roles with Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, State Opera of South Australia, West Australian Opera, Victorian Opera, and at the Adelaide Festival.
On the concert platform he has performed Tristan Tristan und Islode Act 2 (Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra); Mahler’s Das lied von der Erde (Stadttheater Klagenfurt; Bolzano, Italy; Royal Ballet; English National Ballet); Beethoven 9th Symphony (Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra); the title role in Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène (Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra & BBC Symphony Orchestra); Verdi’s Messa de Requiem (Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand); Mozart’s Requiem (Japan; Cadogan Hall); Handel’s Messiah (Melbourne Symphony Orchestra); A Child of our Time (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra); James Nolan in the Grammy nominated recording of Dr Atomic, which was also performed in concert at the Barbican under the baton of John Adams (BBC Symphony Orchestra); and Ulrik in William Alwyn’s Miss Julie (BBC Symphony Orchestra; recorded on the Chandos label) with conductors including Sir Antonio Pappano, Alan Gilbert, Hartmut Haenchen, Daniel Oren, Dan Ettinger, Marc Minkovski, Nicola Luisotti, Sakari Oramo, James Gaffigan, Leo Hussain, and Alejo Pérez.
Current and future projects include Florestan Fidelio under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel (Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra); Tristan Tristan und Isolde (Teatro Massimo di Palermo & Opernhaus Wuppertal); his role, company, and Spanish debut in the title role of Lohengrin (Ópera de Oviedo); the title role in Tannhäuser (Oper Graz); he will also make his Glyndebourne Festival Opera debut and return to Opéra national de Lorraine; and on the concert platform performs Beethoven 9th Symphony with Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.