British tenor Samuel Boden has developed an international opera and concert career with particular success in the fields of early and contemporary music. He is a highly-regarded interpreter of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, the French baroque as well as Britten.
Career highlights include creating the roles of Boy and Young King in George Benjamin Lessons in love and violence at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden with performances at the Dutch National Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Opéra de Lyon and Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, as well as the title roles of Monteverdi L’Orfeo and Gluck Orphée et Euridyce for the Nederlandse Reisopera and Idamante in Campra Idoménée for Opéra de Lille and the Staatsoper Under den Linden, Berlin.
He has sung several Rameau and Charpentier haute-contre parts as well as Cavalli L’Ormindo. Other roles include Oronte Alcina at the Karlsruhe Handel Festival, Poet in Thomas Larcher The Hunting Gun at Aldeburgh Festival, Anthony Sweeney Todd for Bergen National Opera and the title role Acis & Galatea at the Buxton Festival. A Purcell specialist, Samuel has recently appeared in productions of The Indian Queen at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and The Fairy Queen at Drottningholms Slottstheater.
Samuel regularly appears with the foremost period ensembles: Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe Herreweghe, Le Concert d’Astrée with Emmanuelle Haïm, Les Arts Florissants and William Christie, Les Musiciens du Louvre with Marc Minkowski, Wiener Akademie with Martin Haselböck, The English Concert with Harry Bicket and Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with Kristian Bezuidenhout.
He has also worked with the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Scottish Chamber, BBC Symphony and Frankfurt Radio Orchestras plus the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Salzburg Camerata and the Rotterdam Philharmonic. He recently made his US début with the Seattle Symphony and Nicholas McGegan.
Samuel’s growing discography includes Berlioz Roméo et Juliette with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis and discs of Monteverdi, Capra, Charpentier, Daniel Purcell, Rameau, Bach, Blow alongside Tansy Davies, Alec Roth and George Benjamin.
His plans include the title role of Rameau Platée for Garsington Opera, his Carnegie Hall début with the Orchestra of St Lukes’ Bernard Labadie plus projects with Collegum Vocale Gent, The English Concert and Cappella Mediterranea.
