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Welsh mezzo soprano Samantha Price graduated in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Reading before completing an MMus in Opera Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She furthered her studies on the ENO Opera Works Programme and at the National Opera Studio. She is a former Harewood Artist at ENO, a Samling Artist, a Finalist at the Young Welsh Singer of the Year Competition, and in 2018 became an Honorary Associate of the RWCMD.
In the current season engagements include Melissa Princess Ida (National G&S Opera Company); Dinah Trouble in Tahiti (Mid Wales Opera); and Katharina Schratt Mayerling (Royal Ballet & Opera).
Among her recent highlights are Romeo I Capuleti e I Montecchi (English Touring Opera); Zweite Dame Die Zauberflöte (Royal Ballet & Opera); Clare 4.48 Psychosis (Semperoper Dresden); the title role Iolanthe (English National Opera); the title role Carmen Waterperry Opera Festival; Phoebe Meryll The Yeomen of the Guard (Opera Holland Park); and Rosina The Barber of Seville (Charles Court Opera/Wilton’s Music Hall).
Samantha made her debut at English National Opera as Third Gentleman Julietta, going to become a Harewood Artist. Subsequent roles including Cherubino The Marriage of Figaro, Mercédès Carmen, Second Lady The Magic Flute, Kate Pinkerton Madam Butterfly and the title role in Iolanthe, as well as creating Perdita in Ryan Wigglesworth’s The Winter’s Tale.
Her engagements elsewhere have included Clare 4.48 Psychosis (Royal Ballet & Opera, Prototype Festival, Opéra national du Rhin, Philharmonie de Paris); L’Innocente L’arlesiana, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro, Prince Orlofsky Die Fledermaus and Tweedledee Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Opera Holland Park); Lucienne Die tote Stadt (Nederlandse Reisopera) Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro (Xi’an Symphony Orchestra), Rosina The Barber of Seville (Iford Arts); Flora Bervoix La traviata (Longborough Festival Opera) and Mezzo Soloist Opera Highlights Tour (Scottish Opera).
In concert she has performed Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra); Mahler in Miniature (Norfolk & Norwich Music Festival); Mozart Requiem (RG Live); Mozart’s London (The Mozartists); Verdi Requiem (Snape Maltings); Vivaldi Gloria (Royal Festival Hall); and Birmingham Bach Choir’s Centenary Concert (Lichfield Cathedral). Her recordings include Stanford’s Te Deum (BBC National Orchestra of Wales), and on BBC DVD, Shakespeare Live! (Royal Shakespeare Theatre).
Romeo / I Capuleti e i Montecchi / English Touring Opera / 2025
“Samantha Price’s multi-layered mezzo. Her imploring cavatina announced a flexible, expressive and (when necessary) properly forceful voice, endowed equally with grace and heft. Romeo’s final romanza, “Tu, bell’anima”, saw Price depart with captivating charisma and authority across her range.”
(The Arts Desk)
“Within Bellini’s output, for a glorious combination of soprano and mezzo voices, I Capuleti e i Montecchi should be at the top of your list. And when that combination is sung as well as it was by Samantha Price and Jessica Cale for English Touring Opera last night, it’s an unbeatable bel canto experience.”
(Bachtrack)
“Samantha Price’s burnished mezzo worked wonders with Bellini’s lyricism, her coloratura finely delineated.”
(The Guardian)
Phoebe Meryll / The Yeomen of the Guard / Opera Holland Park / 2024
“Samantha Price as Phoebe Meryll reveals an accomplished mezzo-soprano and highly persuasive persona.”
(MusicOMH)
“There are particularly memorable performances from… especially Samantha Price as Phoebe, rich in voice, impeccable in diction and with an emotional vulnerability that is every bit as touching as Jack Point’s.”
(The Times)
Title role / Iolanthe / English National Opera / 2023
“Samantha Price as Iolanthe was magnificent, her warm placatory tone drawing all of our attention, with the subtle, unsettled shifting of The Lord Chancellor on his throne in the dimly lit background as he listened. We listened, too. The theatre suddenly breathed to be so free from distraction. It was the highpoint of the evening.”
(Opera Today)
“Samantha Price really hit the emotional mark in her plea to the husband who got her banished, a melody of sublime simplicity set, in its first verse at least, to lovely words.”
(The Arts Desk)
“…as Iolanthe. Samantha Price shimmers vocally, most notably while tenderly pleading the case of her shepherd-turned-MP son, Strephon, to The Lord Chancellor.”
(The Stage)
7, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 26, 28 Nov | 2, 4, 5 Dec 2025
Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti
Conductor: Jonathan Lyness
Director: Richard Studer
27, 29 Apr | 4, 9, 11, 16, 18 May 2026
Liszt: Mayerling
Conductor: Martin Georgiev
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