Freshly graduated from the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera, Samuel Weiser resides in the DC area as a freelance singer and voice instructor. He is a current student of Neil Shicoff. Samuel 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. Recent roles with Washington National Opera include Marquis d’Obigny in La Traviata, Captain in Eugene Onegin, Jailer in Tosca, 2nd Armored Man in The Magic Flute and 2nd Philistine in Samson et Dalilah. Samuel also appeared as Pistola in Act 1 of Falstaff and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola as part of the “Concert of Comic Masterpieces”. In the Fall of 2019, Samuel had the distinct pleasure of performing The Speaker of the Temple in the Cafritz Young Artist performance of The Magic Flute.

His prior tenure being with the Chicago Opera Theater as a Young Artist, he has performed in much of their 2016/17 season in such roles as Bass 3 in Frank Martin’s Le vin herbé, Ensemble in Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and Ensemble in Phillip Glass’ The Perfect American. Samuel had the distinct pleasure of covering Shakes in the same production of The Fairy Queen and Abraham Lincoln/Undertaker in The Perfect American; part of the American premiere of this Glass work. In Spring of 2018, Samuel portrayed Solomon Weil and George Gissing in the co-production of Elizabeth Cree between Chicago Opera Theater and Opera Philadelphia. This opera composed by Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Kevin Puts with libretto by Mark Campbell. In 2018, Samuel 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 in 2021, Samuel was named a winner of the Utah district of the Laffont Competition, formerly known as the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Samuel completed his tenure as a second-year Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theater of Saint Louis in 2017. In Summer of 2016 at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis, Samuel 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. In the Summer of 2017 Samuel appeared as Fred, a deputy and Pump Guy 2 in Ricky Ian Gordon’s New Performance Version of The Grapes of Wrath as well as covered in Madama Butterfly as The Bonze and Publio in La Clemenza di Tito. In the Summer of 2018, Samuel appeared with Central City Opera as an Apprentice Artist, covering Der Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte and Ferrando in Il Trovatore.