Samuel Dundas regularly appears with all the Australian opera companies, New Zealand Opera, and the major Australian symphony orchestras and choral societies.

Featured major role debuts this year are Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus) for West Australian Symphony, Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) for West Australian Opera and Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) for Opera Australia. Samuel also returns to New Zealand Opera and to Opera Queensland for Marcello, to the Sydney Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Simone Young conducting) and to the Tasmanian Symphony (Christmas Gala).

Further recent major role debuts include Horatio (Hamlet) and Wolfram (Tannhäuser) for Opera Australia, Enrico (Lucia di Lammermoor) for Opera Queensland, the Count (Capriccio) for Victorian Opera, Donner (Das Rheingold) for Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the title role in Richard Mills’ opera Galileo, for Victorian Opera and Cave (Eucalyptus: Jonathan Mills) in Perth, Brisbane and Melbourne.

Samuel has also appeared in the role of Aphron in The Golden Cockerel for Adelaide Festival; as Marcello and the title role (Voss) for State Opera South Australia (Marcello also for Opera Australia and West Australian Opera); Papageno (The Magic Flute) for New Zealand Opera; Count Carl Magnus Malcolm (A Little Night Music) for Victorian Opera; Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Haydn’s Harmony Mass and both Fauré and Mozart Requiems for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; Carmina Burana for Festival of Voices, Hobart and Adelaide Symphony. He has given recitals for the Ten Days on the Island Festival and for Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and has appeared in the Chamber Landscapes series at Ukaria (Adelaide Festival) and at Coriole Festival.

In 2013 Samuel won the Lady Fairfax New York Scholarship and in 2014 the inaugural Dame Heather Begg Award.