Samuel Kidd

Samuel Kidd returns to the prestigious Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera for the 2025–2026 season, where his assignments include covering Marullo in Rigoletto and singing Prison Guard #1 in Dead Man Walking. He also joins Livermore Valley Opera as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and appears as baritone soloist in Fauré’s Requiem with the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra.

In the 2024–2025 season, Kidd made his San Francisco Opera debut, performing Silvano in Un ballo in maschera, Moralès in Carmen, Steuermann in Tristan und Isolde, and making a role debut as Schaunard in La bohème. Opera Today opined, “Of special note was the Schaunard (all performances) […] Main stage recruits from SFO’s young artist program are often over-parted. Not so with Mr. Kidd who defined a large, vivid character for this often overlooked Rodolfo cohort.”

A student of renowned pedagogue Gerald Martin Moore, recent highlights include Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Opera Naples; Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia with the Merola Opera Program; Belcore in L’elisir d’amore and Tarquinius with Yale Opera; and Onegin in Eugene Onegin at Music Academy of the West.

On the concert stage, Kidd has performed the baritone solos in Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Haydn’s Creation and Mozart’s Requiem with the Plymouth Oratorio Society, and the bass solos in Bach’s Mass in B minor and Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers with Audivi and the Michigan Bach Collective.

Mr. Kidd was named a National Finalist in the 2025 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition.