Praised for his “stentonian bass” voice, Samuel Weiser is quickly making a name for himself as a singer to watch. In the 2023-2024 season, Mr. Weiser portrayed Clerk, Doctor, and Con-Man in The Nose at Chicago Opera Theater and joined Opera Baltimore as Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin. Returning to the Metropolitan Opera, he portrayed Count Ribbing in Un ballo in maschera and covered Prison Guard 1 in Dead Man Walking. Future season highlights include his highly anticipated debut as Leporello in Don Giovanni with Livermore Valley Opera. 

 

In 2022, he returned to Washington National Opera for a workshop of Jeanine Tesori and George Brant’s Grounded and made his highly lauded role and company debut as Alberich in Nashville Opera’s Das Rheingold, which reviewers described as “the standout performance” of the opera. During the summer of 2022, he covered Farfallo in Richard Strauss’ Die schweigsame Frau at Bard SummerScape. In the following season, Mr. Weiser made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Flemish Deputy 4 in Don Carlo and covered Waiter 4 in Der Rosenkavalier and Gretch in Giordano’s Fedora. He also made his company and role debut with Livermore Valley Opera as Dr. Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore and returned to Washington National Opera to sing Benoit / Alcindoro in La bohème.

​

A recent graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist program, he has performed several roles with Washington National Opera including the title role in the world premiere of Nicolas Benavides and Marella Martin Koch’s Pepito, Sprecher and 2nd Armored Man in The Magic Flute, Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata, Captain in Eugene Onegin, Jailer in Tosca, 2nd Philistine in Samson et Dalilah and Ox/Inkeeper/Shepherd in Jeanine Tesori and J.D. McClatchy’s The Lion, the Unicorn and Me. Mr. Weiser also appeared as Pistola in Act 1 of Falstaff and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola as part of the company’s “Concert of Comic Masterpieces” and joined the National Symphony Orchestra as the bass soloist for Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 and Act 1 of Puccini’s La bohème.

 

Prior to his time at WNO, Mr. Weiser was a Young Artist with the Chicago Opera Theater. During his tenure, he performed as Bass #3 in Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé and covered Shakes the Poet in Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Abraham Lincoln/Undertaker in Phillip Glass’ The Perfect American. In 2018, he portrayed Solomon Weil and George Gissing in the world premiere of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree which was co-produced by Opera Philadelphia and Chicago Opera Theater.

Mr. Weiser was chosen as a Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theater of Saint Louis in both 2016 and 2017. In his first summer there, he was seen as Clumsy God in the world premiere of Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown after the acclaimed Salman Rushdie novel, Sergeant in La bohème and Valet in Macbeth and covered Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos and Banco in Macbeth. The next summer, he appeared as Fred and Pump Guy #2 in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath and covered The Bonze in Madama Butterfly and Publio in La Clemenza di Tito. Mr. Weiser spent the summer of 2018 with Central City Opera as an Apprentice Artist, singing Der Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte and Ferrando in Il Trovatore.

 

Mr. Weiser has received many accolades for his artistry in recent years. In 2018, he was named a winner of the St. Louis District of the Metropolitan National Council Auditions and was a 3rd place winner of the Midwest region. Most recently, he was named a 2022 Utah District winner in the Laffont Competition, formerly known as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. 

 

Mr. Weiser graduated cum laude B.S.Ed in Music Education from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and holds his M.M. Vocal Performance from Roosevelt University and Artist Diploma from Chicago Opera Theater.