LAURENT NAOURI

Baritone Laurent Naouri had his vocal training at CNIPAL in Marseille and at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Since his stage début in the title rôle of Milhaud’s Christophe Colombe in 1992 he has regularly been heard at major French and European opera houses and as a guest at leading festivals, including the Opéra Bastille and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, in Lyon, Strasbourg, and Geneva, the Vlaamse Opera in Antwerp, the Brussels Théâtre de la Monnaie, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Glyndebourne, and Baden-Baden.

His broad repertoire ranges from Monteverdi to the contemporary, and includes rôles such as the Count in Le nozze di Figaro, Oreste in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride, Eugene Onegin, the Four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Agamemnon (La belle Hélène), Escamillo, Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Falstaff. He has been heard as Golaud in Pelléas et Mélisande at the 2006 Salzburg Easter Festival under Sir Simon Rattle. With a special interest in French Baroque opera, he has performed under conductors including Marc Minkowski, William Christie, and Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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