Laurent Naouri

Known for ActingBorn 1964-05-23 (age 62)Paris, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Berlioz: Les Troyens

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg

Roméo et Juliette (Opéra Bastille)

Les Boréades

Platée

Benvenuto Cellini

Carmen

La Belle Hélène

The Metropolitan Opera: Cinderella

Les Paladins

The Death of Klinghoffer

Golem in Pompei

La Périchole (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Médée

The Queen of Spades - La Monnaie

Massenet: Cendrillon

The Metropolitan Opera: Samson et Dalila

Francesconi: Trompe-la-Mort

Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence

Benvenuto Cellini

Bizet: Carmen

La vie parisienne

L'Elisir d'Amore

Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau or Baroque that Rocks

Le Rossignol

Georges Bizet: Carmen