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 followed by 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 Reisoper, the title role of Rameau Platée for Garsington Opera and Idamante in Campra Idoménée for Opéra de Lille and the Staatsoper Under den Linden, Berlin.

He has sung several of the other 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, Cappella Mediterranea with Leonardo Garcia Alarcón, 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 has appeared with the Seattle Symphony and Nicholas McGegan and The Orchestra of St Luke’s under Bernard Labadie.

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.

Samuel Boden began his career as a culinary chef and went on to study singing at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.