Samuel Hasselhorn

Biography

Following his First Prize triumph at the 2018 Queen Elisabeth Competition, Samuel Hasselhorn has quickly established himself internationally as a versatile artist who is equally at home in the genres of opera, Lied, and oratorio.

Highlights in the 2022/23 season include roles such as Conte d’Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro and his debut as Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, where he is a member of the ensemble. He also made his debut at the Opéra national de Paris, in a ballet production of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer). Among his future projects are Wolfram/Tannhäuser at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Figaro/Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Staatsoper Berlin as well as numerous concerts and recitals.

Hasselhorn was a permanent ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera for two years, where he interpreted the title role in Don Giovanni, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Belcore (L’elisir d’amore), Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Ping (Turandot), Schaunard (La bohème), Ottokar (Der Freischütz), Don Fernando (Fidelio) among other roles of his „Fach“.

Samuel Hasselhorn is the 2018 winner of the Emmerich Smola Prize “SWR Junge Opernstars;” the international singing competition “Das Lied” in 2017 in Heidelberg, the Young Concert Artists Auditions 2015 in New York and the International Schubert Competition 2013 in Dortmund.