Soprano Samantha Hargreaves has a delicious silvery tone to her voice, and her top range is crystalline.” (Opera Now 2025)
“Samantha Hargreaves spread her wing with featherlight high notes and coloratura.” (The Times 2025)
“A soprano of huge promise with a captivating stage presence.” (Limelight 2023)
Soprano Samantha Hargreaves is in her second year of the opera program at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with Janice Chapman. In her professional operatic debut, Samantha created the role of Sarah-Marie in Three Marys, (Greenwell/Evans), which premiered at the Sydney Opera House (2024). She will cover the role of Vespetta in Telemann’s Pimpinone in May (Royal Opera House, Linbury Theatre). She is a 2025 Emerging Artist with Longborough Festival Opera, performing roles in Dido and Aeneas (Purcell). Throughout her tertiary education, she has performed the role of Adele in Die Fledermaus, Oberto in Alcina (Handel), Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park (Dove), Hannchen in Die Opernprobe (Lortzing) and Reserl in Der Häusliche Krieg (Schubert).
Samantha has been the recipient of several awards and scholarships. In 2022, she won the John Fulford Prize at the Herald Sun Aria Competition. Samantha was an artist with Melba Opera Trust, the premiere opera training program in Australia (2022-2023). Recently, she received the Opera Europa Eva Kleinitz Scholarship to help aid with living expenses in London whilst studying. Her private language studies were aided by the Tait Memorial Trust, The Australian Music Foundation and The University of Melbourne. In July, Samantha travelled to Italy for one month of daily lessons with soprano, Valeria Esposito (Winner BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 1987), funded by The Acclaim Awards. In October, 2025, Samantha will relocate to Munich in order to pursue an opera in Germany.