Samuel Rosner is a tenor and composer, currently based in New York. He looks forward to a return to Teatro Nuovo, covering the role of Elvino in La Sonnambula. Samuel recently joined Wolf Trap Opera as a Studio Artist, covering Jupiter in Semele. He previously covered Elvino in La Sonnambula with Teatro Nuovo and Tonio in La fille du régiment with Saint Petersburg Opera (Florida), and he was a 2022 Sarasota Opera Apprentice Artist, singing in scenes from Così fan Tutte, Carmen, and The Rake’s Progress. He recently earned his Graduate Diploma at the Juilliard School, where he performed as Remendado (Carmen) with Juilliard Opera Theatre and Tenor Soloist/First Man/Tenor Priestess in King Arthur with Juilliard Opera/Juilliard 415. He also sang as the tenor soloist in John Musto’s The Book of Uncommon Prayer and performed Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets in Juilliard’s Liederabend Series. Samuel previously attended the Dual Degree Program between Harvard University and New England Conservatory, in which he studied Linguistics at Harvard and Vocal Performance at NEC. Praised as “outstanding… both as a singer and a thoroughly persuasive actor” (The Boston Music Intelligencer), Samuel has previously performed roles such as Chevalier de la Force/L'Aumônier in Dialogues of the Carmelites (New England Conservatory Opera), Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera Neo), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Harvard College Opera), Le Prince Charmant in Cendrillon (Harvard College Opera), and Évandre in Gluck’s Alceste with the Boston-based early music ensemble, Grand Harmonie.

 

As a composer, Samuel has written vocal, instrumental, chamber, choral, and electroacoustic works, as well as numerous film scores. His compositions have been premiered at venues such as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and Juilliard, and performed throughout the United States, as well as in France, Austria, Canada, and Israel. Samuel also performed his own settings of Hebrew Holocaust poems by Hannah Szenes on NPR’s From the Top, and recently, his film score for Jeff Liu’s After Life was screened for the film festival IFFBoston. His upcoming composition performances include his score for Jeffrey Liu’s film Hustle Mode (which he is co-composing with Daniel Giebisch), as well as the upcoming premiere of his new song cycle, Songs from ‘The Gardener’ (a cycle of 4 Tagore settings) which will be premiered by James McCarthy at Rice University.