Laurent Naouri Baritone

Season 23/24 Artist – Season 24/25 Artist

After studying in London, Laurent Naouri was soon invited to perform on numerous international stages.

His repertoire includes some forty roles, from early Baroque to contemporary operas. Several incarnations have marked his career: the Four Devils in Les Contes d'Hoffmann in Madrid, Orange, Milan, Barcelona, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Golaud (Pelléas et Mélisande) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in Glasgow, Salzburg, Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona and Los Angeles, Count Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro) in Aix-en-Provence and Tokyo, the title role in Falstaff in Lyon, Santa Fe and Glyndebourne, Sharpless (Madame Butterfly) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and Germont (La Traviata) in Santa Fe, Tokyo, Dallas and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. He performs the role of Fieramosca (Benvenuto Cellini) in Amsterdam, the Marquis de La Force (Dialogues des carmélites) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Ruprecht (L'Ange de feu) at the Opéra national de Lyon, Capulet (Roméo et Juliette) and Pandolfe (Cendrillon) at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Don Gaspar (L'Ange de Nisida) in London, Mamma Agata (Viva la Mamma) at Opéra national de Lyon and Grand Théâtre de Genève, Golaud in Helsinki, the title role in Don Pasquale at Opéra de Tours and Dijon, Baron Scarpia (Tosca) at La Monnaie de Bruxelles and Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte) at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Caen. In the 2022-2023 season, he was Marquis de La Force at New York's Metropolitan Opera and Des Grieux (Manon) at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu.

At the Opéra national de Paris: participation in numerous productions since 1994, including Manon (Des Grieux), 1997, 1998; Platée (Cithéron / un sathyre), 1999, 2002; L'Élixir d'amour (Belcore), 2006, 2007; Madame Butterfly (Sharpless), 2019 ; Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne (le Roi Ignace), 2020 ; Œdipe (le Grand Prêtre), 2021 ; Roméo et Juliette (Capulet), 2023 ; Don Pasquale (title role), 2023 ; Cendrillon (Pandolfe), 2023