Laurent Naouri

Born: 1964-05-23

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.


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The Metropolitan Opera: Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila

as The High Priest of Dagon
Released: 2018-10-20

A towering biblical epic, Saint-Saëns’s operatic take on the story of Samson and Delilah has...

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Massenet: Cendrillon

as Pandolfe
Released: 2018-04-28

The 2017–18 Live in HD season concluded with an enchanted performance of Cendrillon, Massenet’s...

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The Queen of Spades - La Monnaie

as uncredited
Released: 2022-09-23

In love with an unknown lady, a young soldier discovers that her grandmother holds a secret to...

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Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

as Roland Cassard
Released: 2015-06-07

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Benvenuto Cellini

as Fieramosca
Released: 2007-08-31

Live performance from Salzburg Festival Opera, August 2007. The story tells of Cellini's love...

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Le Rossignol

as Le Chambellan
Released: 2005-04-16

Getting into his grandfather's pottery workship at night, a little boy finds an unusually large...

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Berlioz: Les Troyens

as Narbal
Released: 2003-10-26

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten...

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Benvenuto Cellini

as Fieramosca
Released: 2015-01-01

With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and...

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Les Boréades

as Borée
Released: 2003-03-01

Director Robert Carsen and his creative team flood the stage with summer blossoms, drifts of...

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Cendrillon [The Metropolitan Opera]

as Pandolfe
Released: 2018-04-28

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Carmen

as Escamillo
Released: 2002-07-25

David McVicar's exhilarating new production, with Anne Sofie von Otter in the title role,...

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Platée

as Cithéron, a Satyr
Released: 2002-01-01

The prologue sets the stage for the action: Thespis, Momus and Thalie announce the subject of...

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La Périchole (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées)

as uncredited
Released: 2024-01-18

Opera in three acts by Jacques Offenbach filmed at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. At the origin...

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Francesconi: Trompe-la-Mort

as Vautrin / Trompe-la-mort / Jacques Collin
Released: 2017-03-13

An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable...

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Les Paladins

as Orcan
Released: 2005-03-13

"Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most...

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La vie parisienne

as Le Baron de Gondremark
Released: 2007-12-29

Live performance from Opéra National de Lyon.

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Georges Bizet: Carmen

as uncredited
Released: 2004-03-01

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La Belle Hélène

as Agamemnon, roi d'Argos
Released: 2000-12-01

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent...

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