Samuel Hasselhorn
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Since winning the 2018 Queen Elisabeth competition Samuel Hasselhorn has made a name for himself singing Lieder, in concerts and on the operatic stage. Roles this season have included the title role in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Pelléas in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at the Staatstheater in Nürnberg, where he's a member of the ensemble. Other highlights have included his first Wolframs (Tannhäuser) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the title role in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Staatsoper Berlin. Concert work this season has taken him to Vienna (Matthew Passion) and Berlin (War Requiem), to Frankfurt's Alte Oper (Mahler's Kindertotenlieder) and many European cities on tour with Collegium Vocale Ghent and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées under Philippe Herreweghe (Mozart's Requiem). He was a member of the ensemble at the Vienna State Opera for two years, where roles included Don Giovanni, Rossini's Figaro, Belcore (L‘elisir d‘amore), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Schaunard (La bohème). Recent guest engagements have included Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Staatsoper in Berlin under Daniel Barenboim, Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos) at La Scala Milan and Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (as a ballet) at the Opéra national de Paris. An internationally admired Lieder singer, he works regularly with pianists such as Helmut Deutsch, Malcolm Martineau, Ammiel Bushakevitz and Joseph Middleton in venues including the Hamburg State Opera, the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart, the Ludwigsburg Castle Festival, Theater an der Wien, the Vilbertran Schubertiade in Barcelona, Wigmore Hall in London, the Camerata Musica in Cambridge and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. His first two CDs: Nachtblicke (Night Visions) and Dichterliebe2 (which received rave reviews) were released by GWK RECORDS. Recordings made with Harmonia Mundi are Stille Liebe (Schumann Lieder) and his Schubert programme Glaube, Liebe Hoffnung (Belief, love, hope). The first album in his Schubert 200, project, Die schöne Müllerin, was released in 2023 and his first recording with orchestra comes out this June.