Samuel Mungo
Baritone
New England Third Place Winner, 1991                         review

Director Samuel Mungo’s 2005-2006 season recently finished with the inaugural 2006 season of Colorado
Light Opera as Executive Producer, overseeing a very successful summer of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe
and Pirates of Penzance, the latter of which he directed as well.  Of the season the Boulder Daily
Camera stated, “Producer and director Samuel Mungo has managed to bring a new level of artistic quality.”  He also served as Assistant to Director James Robinson for Opera Colorado on Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, a production he will mount with Florida Grand Opera in the fall of 2006.  The season also saw him directing Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti for the Boulder Opera Project, as well as Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors for the Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts.  

Singing engagements for the 2006 season included the continuation of his relationship with Central City
Opera and the Colorado Symphony with the role of Pooh Bah in The Mikado, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Littleton Chorale and the Pasha for Opera Colorado’s Abduction.  He has also recently been heard in a
recital with MahlerFest with Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen, Behold A People is Coming by Richard Faith, and the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi for CU Opera.  Other credits include dates with Utah Opera, Vancouver Opera, and Florida Grand Opera in roles such as Ping in Turandot, Danilo in Merry Widow and Marcello in la Bohème.

In addition to the Entführung aus dem Serail with Florida Grand Opera, in the 2006-2007 season, Samuel
will take a position as Director of Opera Studies at Texas State University in San Marcos Texas. A native
of Bloomington , Illinois , he resides in Kyle Texas with his wife soprano Brigitte Bellini, their 7 year-old daughter Madeline and 4-year-old son Alexander.

Mr. Mungo is represented by Dorothy Cone.

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