Welsh mezzo-soprano Samantha Price read Speech and Language Therapy at the University of Reading before gaining in a Distinction for her MA in Opera Performance at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

A Samling Artist, she was a Harewood Young Artist at ENO, where her roles have included Mercédès Carmen,Second Lady The Magic Flute, Cherubino The Marriage of Figaro and Perdita in Ryan Wigglesworth’s The Winter’s Tale.

She made her debut with The Royal Opera, London, as Clare 4.48 Psychosis and her engagements have further included Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro and Prince Orlofsky Die Fledermaus for Opera Holland Park, Lucienne Die tote Stadt for the Nederlandse Reisopera, Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro with the Xi’an Symphony Orchestra, Clare4.48 Psychosis at the Prototype Festival, New York, and the Opéra national du Rhin and Flora Bervoix La traviata for Longborough Festival Opera, as well as appearing on the Opera Highlights Tour for Scottish Opera.

She appeared in Shakespeare Live! at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (now available on BBC DVD), and her concert engagements have included Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart Requiem for Raymond Gubbay Ltd and Mozart’sLondon with The Mozartists.

Recent engagements have included the title role in Carmen for Waterperry Opera Festival, Second Lady Die Zauberflöte for the Royal Opera, London, the title role in Iolanthe at ENO, Phoebe Meryll The Yeomen of the Guard for Opera Holland Park, Clare 4.48 Psychosis at the Semperoper Dresden and Katharina Schratt Mayerling for the Royal Ballet, London.

Her recordings and broadcasts include Stanford’s Te Deum with BBC National Orchestra & Chorus of Wales, now available on Lyrita CD, and Celebrate 100 years since the first radio broadcast in Wales for BBC Radio Wales.

This is her debut with English Touring Opera.