Eric Laporte, Tenor

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Franco-Canadian tenor Eric Laporte has been acclaimed on international opera stages for nearly two decades. He recently made his triumphant debut at the Komische Oper Berlin in the title role of The Tales of Hoffmann and as Jim Mahoney in Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, both staged by Barry Kosky. The Frankfurt Opera welcomed him in the roles of Oedipus in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex as well as Ulysse in Fauré's Pénélope under the baton of Joana Mallwitz. In 2025 he will return to the Staatstheater Kassel to sing the title role in a new production of Berlioz’ La Damnation de Faust.

Highlights of Eric Laporte’s career include Erik in Der fliegende Holländer at the Festival d’Opéra de Québec, Lohengrin at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, Faust in La damnation de Faust at the Staatsoper Hannover, Max in Der Freischütz at Staatsoper Hannover and Staatstheater Kassel, as well as Nicias in Thaïs with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Konzerthaus (Michel Plasson/Renée Fleming/Thomas Hampson).

He has also appeared in opera houses such as the Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, Oper Köln, the Volksoper in Vienna, Scottish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin Strasbourg, Opéra de Nice and the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse.

Among his CD recordings are the Complete Songs for Voice and Piano by Jules Massenet for ATMA Classique, and the tenor part in Igor Kuljerić's Croatian Glagolitic Requiem with the Munich Radio Orchestra under the baton of Ivan Repušić for BR Klassik, which has been awarded the International Classical Music Award 2021 and the Diapason d’Or.

Eric Laporte studied singing with Marie Daveluy, Colette Boky and Joseph Rouleau in Montreal as well as with Danielle Demers in Québec. His first engagement has been at the Atelier lyrique of the Montreal Opera, soon followed by his European debut in Salzburg as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte.

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Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio – Florestan *
Opera Bałtycka Gdańsk
Hector Berlioz
La damnation de Faust – Faust
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Staatsoper Hannover, Staatstheater Kassel
Les Troyens – Enée *
Julien Bilodeau
La Reine-Garçon – René Descartes
Opéra de Montreal
Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes *
Gabriel Fauré
Pénélope – Ulysse
Oper Frankfurt
Charles Gounod
Faust – Faust
Theater Ulm, Landestheater Innsbruck
Fromental Halévy
La Juive – Éléazar *
Jules Massenet
Thaïs – Nicias (in concert)
Wiener Radio Symphonie Orchester/Wiener Konzerthaus
 Werther – Werther
 Theater Ulm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Idomeneo – Idomeneo
Staatstheater Augsburg
Jacques Offenbach
Les contes d’ Hoffmann – Hoffmann
Staatstheater Mainz, Komische Oper Berlin
Giacomo Puccini
Madama Butterfly – Pinkerton
Opéra de Québec
Manon Lescaut – Des Grieux
Theater Ulm, Staatstheater Mainz
Tosca – Cavaradossi
Staatstheater Mainz
Turandot – Calaf
Theater Ulm
Richard Strauss
Die Frau ohne Schatten – Kaiser *
Igor Stravinksy
Oedipus rex – Oedipe
Oper Frankfurt
Viktor Ullmann
Der Kaiser von Atlantis – Harlekin / Pierrot
Nouvel Opéra Métropolitain Montréal
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida – Radames
Theater Magdeburg, Theater Ulm
Nabucco – Ismaele
Theater Ulm
Rigoletto – Duca
Theater
Bielefeld, Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern
La Traviata – Alfredo
Opera Zuid Maastricht, Staatstheater Mainz
Richard Wagner
Der fliegende Holländer – Erik
Stadttheater Giessen, Staatsoper Hannover, Festival d’opéra de Québec
Lohengrin – Lohengrin
Theater Ulm, Theater St. Gallen, Staatstheater Nürnberg
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Walter von Stolzing *
Die Walküre – Siegmund
Staatstheater Mainz
Carl Maria von Weber
Der Freischütz – Max
Stadttheater Giessen, Staatsoper Hannover, Staatstheater Kassel
Kurt Weill
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny – Jim Mahoney
Komische Oper Berlin
* roles in preparation