Age: 31
This season, Laureano Quant makes his European debut as Bill in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny with Staatsoper Stuttgart and sings El Payador in María de Buenos Aires with Madison Opera. He sings his first performances of Schaunard in La bohème this summer, as a Vocal Fellow with the Ravinia Festival.
As a member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, Laureano sang Le Dancaïre in Carmen, Comte de Lerma in Don Carlos, and Stařek in Jenůfa. Additional roles include Betto in Gianni Schicchi with Ópera de Colombia, as well as Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Prince Ragonsky in Candide with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotà. Alongside the same orchestra in his native country, he has sung Fauré’s Requiem and Bacalov’s Missa Tango, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Festival de Música Sacra de Popayán.
Laureano Quant obtained a Master of Musical Arts from Yale and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music. He received further training at the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera and SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. He obtained a Bachelor of Music, from Pontifica Universidad Javeriana with a double-major in vocal performance and composition.
Principal Teachers
- Gerald Martin Moore
- James Morris
- Carolina Plata
Major Competitions
- 2nd prize Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition (New England Region), 2024
- Viewers’ Choice, Eleanor McCollum Competition Concert of Arias, 2020
PROGRAMME
FIRST ROUND: ARIA
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO E fra quest’ansie…e allor perchè
(Pagliacci)
DANIEL CATÁN Belladonna, cicuta, mandragora
(La hija de Rappaccini)
GEORGES BIZET Votre toast je peux vous le rendre
(Carmen)
FIRST ROUND: ART SONG
ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY Turmwächterlied
(Vier Gesänge, op. 8)
FRANCIS POULENC Couplets bachiques · L’offrande · Sérénade · La belle jeunesse
(Huit chansons gaillardes)
ART SONG PRIZE FINAL
GERALD FINZI Come Away, Death · Who is Silvia?
(Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Silent Noon
(The House of Life)
FRANZ SCHUBERT Der Doppelgänger
(Schwanengesang, D957)
FRANCIS POULENC Georges Braque · Juan Gris · Joan Miró
(Le travail du peintre)
SEMIFINAL
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo
(Così fan tutte)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN It is Enough! O Lord, Now Take Away My Life
(Elijah)
GEORGES BIZET L’orage s’est calmé…Ô Nadir, tendre ami de mon jeune âge
(Les pêcheurs de perles)
FINAL
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Hai già vinta la causa!
(Les noces de Figaro)
ERICH KORNGOLD Mein Sehnen, mein Wähnen
(Die tote Stadt)
GABRIEL FAURÉ Ô sainte médaille… Avant de quitter ces lieux
(Faust)
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