Samuel Mungo has been involved in music and theater for over 30 years as singer, actor, director, producer, and teacher. Some of his favorite performed opera roles include Don Giovanni (Minnesota Opera, Chicago Opera Theater), Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus (Vancouver Opera, Central City Opera and Knoxville Opera), the Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance (Colorado Symphony, Eugene Opera, Young Victorian Opera Company). and Frederik in A Little Night Music  (Alamo City Opera. 

Making his Carnegie Hall debut with Milos Bok’s Missa Solemnis, he has sung with the St. Louis Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, Utah Symphony and Orquestra Filarmonica di Lima, among others. He was recently seen as Jesus in Annapolis Chorale’s St. John’s Passion, and baritone soloist in the Brahms Requiem with the Montgomery Symphony.

He currently serves as Director of Opera Studies at NAU. Other positions held include Managing Artistic Director of Opera at the Peabody Conservatory, where his production of Zack Redler’s The Falling and the Rising was named Opera Production of the Year for the National Opera Association, and the World Premiere of Kirke Mechem’s Pride and Prejudice was named Best of Baltimore. He won a Silver medal in the Charles Nelson Reilly Directing Awards at The American Prize. He was tenured at Texas State University as Director of Opera Studies, and has taught at New York University, University of Colorado, and Towson University.

Professional directing credits include Die Entführung aus dem Serail for Florida Grand Opera, La Traviata and The Falling and the Rising for Opera Carolina, Suor Angelica for Opera Plovdiv, and Rigoletto for San Antonio Opera.