Laurent Naouri
Initially beginning his education at the École Centrale de Lyon, Naouri decided to concentrate on opera in 1986 and continued his musical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
His professional career in France began in 1992 with performances in the title role of Darius Milhaud’s Christophe Colomb (Christopher Columbus) for the opening of the Imperial Theatre in Compiègne. Progressing rapidly, his career quickly comprised a very varied repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to contemporary composers under such conductors as Maurizio Benini, William Christie, René Jacobs, Marc Minkowski, and Kent Nagano.
Naouri made his debut at the Opéra Garnier in the role of Thésée in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, followed by Eugene Onegin at the Opéra de Nancy, interpreting at the Opéra Bastille the roles of the Comte Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon and Figaro in The Marriage of Figaro. A wide range of roles has followed, including many from the Baroque era including Rameau's Platée and Les Indes galantes and Handel's Alcina.
In Britain, he has appeared at the Royal Opera House in 2006 in the role of Escamillo in Carmen; in the United States at the Santa Fe Opera he appeared in the same role in the 2006 Carmen . Also at the Santa Fe Opera, he is scheduled for the role of Falstaff in Verdi's opera of the same name for June/July 2008 and as Germont in the 2009 La traviata starring his wife as Violetta.
Naouri is married to soprano Natalie Dessay, and they have two children.
Acting
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Les Paladins
as Orcan
2005
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Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
as Roland Cassard
2015
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
as Narbal
2003
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Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille)
as Capulet
2023
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La Belle Hélène
as Agamemnon, roi d'Argos
2000
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Carmen
as Escamillo
2002
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Benvenuto Cellini
as Fieramosca
2007
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Les Boréades
as Borée
2003
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Platée
as Cithéron, a Satyr
2002
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The Metropolitan Opera: Cinderella
as Pandolfe
2022
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Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau or Baroque that Rocks
as Himself
2005
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Le Rossignol
as Le Chambellan
2005
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La Périchole (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées)
2024
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The Queen of Spades - La Monnaie
as Count Tomsky - Zlatogor
2022
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L'Elisir d'Amore
as Belcore
2006
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La vie parisienne
as Le Baron de Gondremark
2007
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Médée
as Créon
2024
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Massenet: Cendrillon
as Pandolfe
2018
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Georges Bizet: Carmen
2004
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Francesconi: Trompe-la-Mort
as Vautrin / Trompe-la-mort / Jacques Collin
2017
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The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila
as The High Priest of Dagon
2018
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Bizet: Carmen
as Escamillo
2008
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Benvenuto Cellini
as Fieramosca
2015
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Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence
as Golaud
2016