Sam Krausz, Tenor

Tenor Sam Krausz is excited to be returning to sing with the Berkshire Lyric Chorus! Currently a resident artist at the Glimmerglass Festival, Sam recently finished his two-year term in the Arizona Opera Pullin Studio, where was seen in shows such as Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera among others. Previous engagements have included his hometown company of Opera Theater St Louis, as well as Des Moines Metro Opera and Wolf Trap Opera, with roles such as Snout/Wall in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (OTSL), Vierste Jude in Strauss’s Salome (DMMO), and Apollo in Händel’s Semele (WTO). A graduate of the University of Cincinnati CCM and Northwestern University, Sam has won advanced prizes in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition and the Lotte Lenya Competition for crossover vocalists. Sam performed in his first professional musical in 2025, as Enoch Snow in Arizona Music Festival’s production of Carousel, and his oratorio soloist credits include Händel’s Messiah with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago and, of his debut with Berkshire Lyric in Mozart’s Requiem in 2022.