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American soprano Kristin Sampson recently triumphed in
the European premier of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, under the
direction of Róbert Alföldi, in a production that was broadcast live
on Mezzo television in over 40 countries. As a finalist in the
Festival and Competition for the second year in Festival and
Competition for the second year in a row, she reprised the role at
the Szeged National Theatre, reprised the role at the Szeged
National Theatre, winning the Best Female Singer Award for her
performance. For Best Female Singer Award for her
performance. For her performance in New York the Wall Street
said “With her big, gleaming dramatic soprano, Kristin Sampson
brought authority to the tour-de-force role of Emmeline”.
Last season Ms. Sampson completed a wildly successful run as
Adriana Lecouvreur at the Szeged National Theatre, Hungary,
followed by a New York premiere as “fiery Šárka,” singing with
“primal force and excellent control” and acting with “resolution
and power.” Critics agree, “she is an immense talent.” Ms.
Sampson has performed many roles with Dicapo Opera Theatre
including Juliette which the New York Sun described as “a strong,
lustily sung Juliette that was at its best in her passionate delivery
of the Potion Aria,” while the New York Post described her
performance as, “…bright-toned and eloquent.” This season, Ms.
Sampson will return to Dicapo Opera Theatre to add Cio-Cio-San
(Brescia version of Madama Butterfly) to a long list of heroines
performed, which already includes Suzanne (Thérèse Raquin),
Hanna Glawari, Cleopatra, Violetta, Mimì, and Pamina in Die
Zauberflöte. In recent years, she has appeared with Augusta
Opera, National Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Shaker Mountain
the European premier of Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, under the
direction of Róbert Alföldi, in a production that was broadcast live
on Mezzo television in over 40 countries. As a finalist in the
Festival and Competition for the second year in Festival and
Competition for the second year in a row, she reprised the role at
the Szeged National Theatre, reprised the role at the Szeged
National Theatre, winning the Best Female Singer Award for her
performance. For Best Female Singer Award for her
performance. For her performance in New York the Wall Street
said “With her big, gleaming dramatic soprano, Kristin Sampson
brought authority to the tour-de-force role of Emmeline”.
Last season Ms. Sampson completed a wildly successful run as
Adriana Lecouvreur at the Szeged National Theatre, Hungary,
followed by a New York premiere as “fiery Šárka,” singing with
“primal force and excellent control” and acting with “resolution
and power.” Critics agree, “she is an immense talent.” Ms.
Sampson has performed many roles with Dicapo Opera Theatre
including Juliette which the New York Sun described as “a strong,
lustily sung Juliette that was at its best in her passionate delivery
of the Potion Aria,” while the New York Post described her
performance as, “…bright-toned and eloquent.” This season, Ms.
Sampson will return to Dicapo Opera Theatre to add Cio-Cio-San
(Brescia version of Madama Butterfly) to a long list of heroines
performed, which already includes Suzanne (Thérèse Raquin),
Hanna Glawari, Cleopatra, Violetta, Mimì, and Pamina in Die
Zauberflöte. In recent years, she has appeared with Augusta
Opera, National Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Shaker Mountain
Opera among others. A versatile performer, Ms. Sampson’s musical theater credits include Luisa in The Fantasticks,
Maria in West Side Story, Anne in A Little Night Music, Nellie in South Pacific and Lady Larkin in Once Upon a Mattress.
Ms. Sampson has also established herself on the concert stage, having appeared twice at Weill Recital Hall, once
with Pacific Encore Performances, and again singing excerpts of Cristof Bergman’s new opera Piazza Navona. She
was a soloist for the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra’s Pop Concert, performed Mozart’s Exultate, jubilate with the
Symphony, and Magnificat in D with the Houston Bach Society. She has performed of such works as the Mozart
Requiem and Exsultate Jubilate, the Vivaldi Gloria, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Earnest Tales of Terror, Handel
Jephte, and Bach Magnificat. Also, as an active recitalist, Ms. Sampson has appeared throughout the United States.
Most recently, she joined tenor David Katz in performing Opera to Broadway, and Puccini to Bernstein in Long
Beach, NY, and presented The Blue Estuaries by John David Earnest at the Mannes School of Music. Additionally,
Ms. Sampson performed and recorded music by composers Ismi Kuremoto and Trent Hanna, and recently premiered
the song cycle Songs of Death by Trent Hanna, at Sam Houston State University’s Celebration of Twentieth Century
Music.
Future engagements include a concert with the Lviv Philharmonia, Madame Butterfly with El Paso Opera, Annia in
The St. of Blecker Street with Dicapo Opera Theatre, as well as a return to the National Theatre in Szeged for the
role of Tosca. Ms. Sampson currently resides in New York City and studies with Diana Soviero.
Maria in West Side Story, Anne in A Little Night Music, Nellie in South Pacific and Lady Larkin in Once Upon a Mattress.
Ms. Sampson has also established herself on the concert stage, having appeared twice at Weill Recital Hall, once
with Pacific Encore Performances, and again singing excerpts of Cristof Bergman’s new opera Piazza Navona. She
was a soloist for the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra’s Pop Concert, performed Mozart’s Exultate, jubilate with the
Symphony, and Magnificat in D with the Houston Bach Society. She has performed of such works as the Mozart
Requiem and Exsultate Jubilate, the Vivaldi Gloria, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb, Earnest Tales of Terror, Handel
Jephte, and Bach Magnificat. Also, as an active recitalist, Ms. Sampson has appeared throughout the United States.
Most recently, she joined tenor David Katz in performing Opera to Broadway, and Puccini to Bernstein in Long
Beach, NY, and presented The Blue Estuaries by John David Earnest at the Mannes School of Music. Additionally,
Ms. Sampson performed and recorded music by composers Ismi Kuremoto and Trent Hanna, and recently premiered
the song cycle Songs of Death by Trent Hanna, at Sam Houston State University’s Celebration of Twentieth Century
Music.
Future engagements include a concert with the Lviv Philharmonia, Madame Butterfly with El Paso Opera, Annia in
The St. of Blecker Street with Dicapo Opera Theatre, as well as a return to the National Theatre in Szeged for the
role of Tosca. Ms. Sampson currently resides in New York City and studies with Diana Soviero.