SamDhobhany

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  • Bass-Baritone

About Sam

Second-year Houston Grand Opera Butler Studio artist Sam Dhobhany, originally from Brooklyn, New York, received the Ana María Martínez Encouragement Award at HGO’s 2024 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias. During the 2024-25 season at HGO, he made his
company debut as Alidoro in HGO Family Day Presents Cinderella and later performed the role of Terry in Breaking the Waves. In Summer 2024, he returned to Santa Fe Opera as an apprentice artist, where his roles included Marchese d’Obigny in La traviata, as well as covering Dulcamara in The Elixir of Love and The Notary in Der Rosenkavalier. Previously, with Santa Fe Opera in 2023, he covered and performed the role of Un Médecin in Pelléas et Mélisande. In Summer 2025, Sam was a Filene Artist at Wolf Trap Opera, where he appeared as Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro and Zuniga in Carmen. Dhobhany was a second-place winner in the Rocky Mountain Region of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. During the 2025-26 season at HGO, he tackled a variety of repertoire, including the roles of Undertaker in Porgy and Bess, The Notary in Gianni Schicchi, British Major in Silent Night, George in Of Mice and Men, and The Officer in The Barber of Seville. This summer, Sam will be an Emerging artist at the prestigious International Meistersinger Akademie under the direction of Edith Wiens. For his final year next season at HGO, Dhobhany will perform the roles of Wagner in Faust, 2nd Priest/2nd Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte, and The Police Inspector in Der Rosenkavalier. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Sam is based in Houston, Texas

Contact

Seb Mallet

Seb Mallet

Artist Manager
Elan Fryar

Elan Fryar

Assistant Artist Manager

Press

  • Of Mice and Men

    Houston Grand Opera
    Mar 2026

    • Bass-baritone Sam Dhobhany, as Lennie’s friend and protector George, complemented Sampson’s Lennie with the heft of his singing and the sturdiness of his presence.

    • Bass baritone Sam Dhobhany carried the dramatic heft of the biggest roles of their careers with absolute conviction from first scene to last. After the opening chase scene, where the pair is fleeing from the police after Lennie touches a woman’s skirt, the pair hides in a river gully. George breaks into his first aria, “My life would be so simple by myself.” Dhobhany immediately captures our attention with his resonant, full-bodied voice. There’s an edge in the voice that signals his frustration with Lennie, yet a warmth that returns when he promises to stick with Lennie despite the constant trouble he causes.

    • Dhobhany's mellifluous bass-baritone effortlessly highlighted Floyd's lyrical passages with impressive dynamic range

  • Le Nozze di Figaro

    Wolf Trap Opera
    Jun 2025

    • Sam Dhobhany impressed with a cavernous bass in Doctor Bartolo’s music

    • Bass Sam Dhobhany likewise delivered a highly satisfying “La vendetta,” the first instance in this opera of the aforementioned rapidfire patter Italian. He shone in this role as Marcellina (Elissa Pfaender)’s lawyer, later to be revealed as her former lover, then turned husband in the third act.