United Kingdom based Australian tenor Samuel Sakker is garnering attention as an emerging Heldentenor of distinction, and is in increasing demand with leading opera companies and orchestras internationally.

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The 25/26 season sees Sakker continue to make important role and company debuts including the title role in new production of Tannhäuser under the musical direction of Sir Mark Elder for the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Siegmund in Die Walküre for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein under the baton of Chief Conductor, Vitali Alekseenok; Tristan Tristan und Isolde conducted by Omer Meir Wellber in his company debut with the Staatsoper Hamburg; Tambourmajor Wozzeck at the Beijing Music Festival, and also in concert with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Future ahead he makes his company debuts with Opéra de Nice, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires and Irish National Opera, and returns to the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden.

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Winner of the Wagner Society Singing Competition, Sakker’s operatic highlights include Tristan Tristan und Isolde (Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Opéra National de Lorraine; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Opera Théâtre de Caen; Opernhaus Wuppertal); title role in Parsifal (Staatsoper Stuttgart); Tannhäuser (Oper Graz) Florestan Fidelio under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel (Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra); title role Lohengrin (Ópera de Oviedo); Tambourmajor Wozzeck(Opera Ballet Vlaanderen); Erik Der Fliegende Holländer (Opéra Angers-Nantes; Opéra de Rennes; Nederlandse Reisopera; Cape Town Opera); Siegmund Die Walküre and Pollione Norma (Melbourne Opera); Boris and Tikhon Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera); Don Josè Carmen (Danish National Opera); Macduff Macbeth (Grange Festival Opera; Melbourne Opera); and subsequent roles with Royal Opera House, Opera Australia, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Adelaide Festival, New Zealand Opera, Opera Queensland, Opera Holland Park, West Australian Opera, and State Opera of South Australia.

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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; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Bolzano, Italy; Royal Ballet; English National Ballet); Beethoven 9th Symphony (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic 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 (Royal Opera Japan Tour; 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 Mark Elder, Sir Antonio Pappano, Gustavo Dudamel, Cornelius Meister, Alejo Pérez, Omer Meir Wellber, Alan Gilbert, Daniel Oren, Nicola Luisotti, Sakari Oramo, Hartmut Haenchen, James Gaffigan, Dan Ettinger, Vassilis Christopoulos and Marc Minkovski

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