United Kingdom based Australian tenor Samuel Sakker is garnering attention as an emerging Heldentenor of distinction, and is in increasing demand with leading opera companies and orchestras internationally.

The 25/26 season sees Sakker continue to make important role and company debuts including the title role in new production of Tannhäuser under the musical direction of Sir Mark Elder for the Grand Théâtre de Genève; Siegmund in Die Walküre for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein under the baton of Chief Conductor, Vitali Alekseenok; Tristan  in Tristan und Isolde conducted by Omer Meir Wellber in his company debut with the Staatsoper Hamburg; Tambourmajor (Wozzeck) at the Beijing Music Festival, and also in concert with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Future ahead he makes his company debuts with Opéra de Nice, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires and Irish National Opera, and returns to the Royal Ballet & Opera, Covent Garden.

Winner of the Wagner Society Singing Competition, Sakker’s operatic highlights include Tristan Tristan und Isolde (Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Opéra National de Lorraine; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Opera Théâtre de Caen; Opernhaus Wuppertal); title role in Parsifal (Staatsoper Stuttgart); Tannhäuser (Oper Graz) Florestan in Fidelio under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel (Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra); title role Lohengrin (Ópera de Oviedo); Tambourmajor in Wozzeck(Opera Ballet Vlaanderen); Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer (Opéra Angers-Nantes; Opéra de Rennes; Nederlandse Reisopera; Cape Town Opera); Siegmund in Die Walküre and Pollione in Norma (Melbourne Opera); Boris and Tikhon in Katya Kabanova (Scottish Opera); Don Josè in Carmen (Danish National Opera); Macduff in Macbeth (Grange Festival Opera; Melbourne Opera); and subsequent roles with Royal Opera House, Opera Australia, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Adelaide Festival, New Zealand Opera, Opera Queensland, Opera Holland Park, West Australian Opera, and State Opera of South Australia.