Samuel Stopford

Already at the age of 27, the British tenor Samuel Stopford has achieved significant international recognition after winning the 12th International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition, where he received a total of five prizes, including the prestigious First Prize. He has been praised for “a voice of exceptional clarity and emotional insight—an artist with natural musicality and rare potential.”

In the 2026/27 season, he has a number of notable international engagements, including Nadir in The Pearl Fishers at the Polish National Opera, the First Gondolier in Death in Venice at the Bavarian State Opera, as well as appearances at the Royal Danish Opera, the Polish National Opera, Stadttheater Klagenfurt, and with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

As a current member of the Opera Studio at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Stopford performs roles such as Jaquino in Fidelio, Lord Arturo Bucklaw in Lucia di Lammermoor, in Henze’s opera The English Cat, Pong in Turandot, Malcolm in Macbeth, Gaston in La traviata, the First Armed Man/Second Priest in The Magic Flute, Parpignol in La bohème, the Major-Domo to Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, and the Count of Lerma in Don Carlo.

In the summer of 2024, he participated in the Salzburg Festival’s Young Singers Project, where he performed the role of the First Croupier in Peter Sellars’ new production of Prokofiev’s The Gambler. He is also a former participant of the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (2023), where he performed concerts with the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra and gave a lied recital at the Reitstadel Neumarkt, broadcast on Bavarian Radio.

As a concert soloist, Stopford made his debut at Wigmore Hall in 2024 with Liszt’s Three Petrarch Sonnets. He has also performed with the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra in three concerts at Shanghai Symphony Hall and took part in the opening of the WDCAL World Solo Dance Championships at the Shenzhen Universiade Sports Stadium, performing before an audience of more than 12,000 and a further 1.2 million via livestream.

Samuel Stopford is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he achieved top marks at both Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. He has received the Bicentenary and ABRSM scholarships, won second prize and the song prize at the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award, and was awarded the HRH Princess Alice Prize for outstanding students.