Lawrence Zazzo Countertenor
Lawrence Zazzo countertenor A native of Philadelphia, American countertenor Lawrence studied English and Music at Yale University and King’s College, Cambridge, before making his operatic debut as Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to great acclaim whilst studying voice at the Royal College of Music, London. As an opera singer, Lawrence continues to perform in major opera houses throughout the world, including the Wiener Staatsoper, the Metropolitan Opera, Opera de Paris, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Opernhaus Zurich, Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Teatro Real Madrid, La Monnaie Brussels, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Hamburg, the Canadian Opera Company and Glyndebourne. Lawrence has worked with leading conductors in both early and contemporary music, including René Jacobs, Ottavio Dantone, William Christie, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ivor Bolton, Emmanuelle Haim, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Alessandro de Marchi, Leonardo Garcia Alarcòn, Christian Curnyn, David Bates, Paul Goodwin, Martyn Brabbins, James Conlon, and Simone Young. Regularly appearing in concert and recital at the Wigmore Hall, Musikverein, Concertgebouw, the Leipzig Bach Festival, Theatre des Champs- Elysées, the Edinburgh Festival, the Innsbruck Festwochen der Alte Musik and Festival d'Opera Baroque in Beaune, he has premiered new works by Jonathan Dove (Hojoki), Thomas Adès (The Tempest), Rolf Riehm (Sirenen, Die Tode des Orpheus), and Iain Bell (These motley fools). A keen Handelian, his extensive discography includes the Handel operas Giulio Cesare, Rodelinda, Rinaldo, Serse, Partenope, Riccardo Primo, Lotario, and Fernando Ré di Castiglia, as well as the oratorios Saul, Deborah, and Messiah, in addition to Scarlatti's Griselda, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, and Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus and Mitridate.
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