Ronald Samm tenor (Father Grenville) trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he studied voice and piano, followed by postgraduate study at the Royal Northern College of Music and the National Opera Studio.

Previously for ENO: Revd Adams Peter Grimes, Earl of Ruthven Mary, Queen of Scots, The Reverend Blue, Uncle Billy It’s a Wonderful Life, Peter Porgy and Bess, Security Guard Between Worlds.

Notable engagements elsewhere: Otello, Tambourmajor Wozzeck, Florestan Fidelio, Ladislav The Two Widows (Birmingham Opera Company); Shabby Peasant Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (BBC Proms); Pangloss/Voltaire Candide, Canio Pagliacci (Scottish Opera); Otello, Big Prisoner From the House of the Dead (Opera North).

Also, Lazarus The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Theater Bonn); Siegfried Act III Götterdämmerung (Oper Wuppertal); Siegmund Die Walküre (Teatro Nacional de São Carlos); Otello (NordlandsOperan); Olim Der Silbersee, Laca Jenůfa (ETO); and in Porgy and Bess, Sportin’ Life (Opéra de Lyon, Edinburgh Festival), Jake (Lisbon), Peter (Dutch National Opera, Theater an der Wien). 

 

September 2025