A third-year Butler Studio artist from Brooklyn, New York, Sam Dhobhany received the Ana María Martínez Encouragement Award at HGO’s 2024 Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias, and he is a 2022 alumnus of HGO’s Young Artist Vocal Academy. In HGO’s 2026-27 season, Dhobhany performs the roles of Wagner in Faust, Second Armored Man/Priest in mainstage and Family Day performances of The Magic Flute, and Police Commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier. Previously at HGO, Dhobhany sang the roles of the Undertaker in Porgy and Bess, the Notary in Gianni Schicchi (Il trittico), British Major in Silent Night, George Milton in the Butler Studio production of Of Mice and Men, Sargeant in The Barber of Seville, Alidoro in Family Day for Cinderella, and Terry in Breaking the Waves. In 2026, Dhobhany was an Emerging Artist at the International Meistersinger Akademie. In 2025, he performed the roles of Zuniga in Carmen and Bartolo in The Marriage of Figaro at Wolf Trap Opera, where he served as a Studio Artist in 2021. In 2024, Dhobhany sang the role of Angelotti in Tosca with Dayton Opera. He was a 2023 and 2024 Apprentice Singer with Santa Fe Opera, where he performed Un Médecin in Pelléas et Mélisande and Marchese d’Obigny in La traviata. Dhobhany was the second-place winner of the 2025 Rocky Mountain Region of The Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.