Praised by Opera News for his “gleaming heroic tenor and a hint of physical danger,” in the 2026/27 season tenor Samuel White makes his house and role debut as Don Jose in Carmen with Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Ópera Nacional de Chile, and also returns to the role of Calaf in Turandot with Virginia Opera. Last season, he returned to San Francisco Opera as an Adler Fellow singing the 1st Knight in Parsifal, made his role debut as Calaf in Turandot as well as a gala performance with Opera Naples, sang another gala performance with Virginia Opera, and joined Glyndebourne Festival Opera covering Bacchus in Ariadne auf. Naxos. He also recently made his role and house debut as Canio in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with Wexford Festival Opera.

Mr. White is a 2024 recipient of the George London Award from the George and Nora London Foundation Competition, and recently joined San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Merola Opera Program as an apprentice artist. As young artist with Santa Fe Opera, he covered The Prince in Rusalka, while also singing scenes in concert as Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the False Prince in Boris Godunov. He also covered the role of Licinio in Teatro Grattacielo’s production of La Vestale celebrating 100 years of Maria Callas. He has covered the roles of Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Tulsa Opera and Count Loris Ipanov in Fedora with Teatro Grattacielo. His other performance credits include Matthew Gurney in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, Aeneas in Dido & Aeneas, and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus.

He has completed training in such institutions as The Aspen Opera Center, The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera in the Ozarks, and  Lyric Opera Studio Weimar, and holds a Bachelor and Masters of Music from The Florida State University and a Postgraduate Certificate from Manhattan School of Music.