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date = "2018-01-14T18:57:00-05:00"
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British tenor Samuel Boden began his professional career as a chef before studying singing with John Wakefield at Trinity Laban Conservatoire.

Opera engagements include the title role of Cavalli’s *L’Ormindo* for the Royal Opera at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Orphée in Gluck *Orphée et Euridyce* with Nationale Reisopera and Prologue and Quint *The Turn of the Screw* with The Koenig Ensemble in Mexico. He has sung Charpentier’s *Actéon* for Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Lille and Hippolyte *Hippolyte et Aricie* in concert with Ensemble Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon; Abaris *Les Boréades* in concert at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and Damon *Acis & Galatea* in the Salzburg Mozart Week both with Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski and Castor *Castor et Pollux* with the Early Opera Company / Curnyn.

Samuel has appeared with many highly-regarded period ensembles as well as symphony and chamber orchestras: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Giovanni Antonini, Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh, the Royal Northern Sinfonia / Thomas Zehetmair, Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Harry Bicket, Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Kraemer, Les Arts Florissants / William Christie and Jonathan Cohen; BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis, John Storgards, Sakari Oramo and Giancarlo Guerro; Frankfurt Radio Orchestra / Haïm; Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe; Wiener Akademie / Martin Haselböck and Salzburg Camerata / Teodor Currentzis.

His growing discography includes Berlioz *Roméo et Juliette* with the BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Andrew Davis and discs of Monteverdi, Charpentier, Daniel Purcell, Rameau, Bach alongside Tansy Davies and Alec Roth.

Amongst his recent and forthcoming engagements are Bach with the Rotterdam Philharmonic / Natalie Stutzmann, the title role Rameau *Pigmalion* with Pinchgut Opera Sydney, Telemaco *Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria* at The Round House for the Royal Opera House and creating a role in George Benjamin’s *Lessons in love and violence* at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden followed by performances in Amsterdam, Hamburg, Lyon and Paris.
