Hometown: Brooklyn, New York City, NY
Career highlights: First-year Houston Grand Opera Sarah and Ernest Butler Studio Artist Sam Dhobhany received the Ana María Martínez Encouragement Award at HGO’s 2024 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias. During HGO’s 2024/2025 season, he makes his company debut as Alidoro in HGO Family Day Presents Cinderella and performs the role of Terry in April’s Breaking the Waves. Dhobhany studied vocal performance at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In 2022, he trained with HGO’s Young Artist Vocal Academy and Wolf Trap Opera’s Studio Artist Program. In the summers of 2023 and 2024, Dhobhany was an apprentice artist with Santa Fe Opera. He’s a 2023 Michigan District winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. In 2024, Dhobhany sang the role of Cesare Angelotti in Tosca with Dayton Opera and the title role in The Marriage of Figaro at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.