Samuel Dundas regularly appears with all the Australian opera companies, New Zealand Opera, and the major Australian symphony orchestras and choral societies.
Major role debuts this year are Dandini (La Cenerentola) for Opera Queensland, Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus) for West Australian Symphony, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) for West Australian Opera and Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) for Opera Australia. Samuel also returns to Opera Queensland for Marcello, to the Sydney Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Simone Young conducting) and to the Tasmanian Symphony (Christmas Gala).
This year Samuel returns to both the Perth and Brisbane Festivals and to Victorian Opera as Cave (Eucalyptus: Jonathan Mills), to Opera Australia as Horatio (Hamlet), to Opera Queensland as and to the Queensland and West Australian Symphony orchestras in Beethoven’s 9th symphony and to the Tasmanian Symphony in Haydn’s Harmony Mass. He is also a featured soloist at the Coriole Festival.
Further recent major role debuts have included the title role in Richard Mills’ Galileo, Horatio (Hamlet) and Wolfram (Tannhäuser) for Opera Australia; Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) for Opera Queensland; the Count (Capriccio) for Victorian Opera; Donner (Das Rheingold) for Sydney Symphony Orchestra; Aphron (The Golden Cockerel) for Adelaide Festival; the title role in Voss for State Opera South Australia, and Count Carl Magnus Malcolm (A Little Night Music) for Victorian Opera.