Eric Laporte (tenor)

For the Quebec politician, see Éric Laporte.

Eric Laporte
Background information
BornQuebec City
GenresOpera, Concert
OccupationLyrical singer – Tenor
Years active1998 - present

Eric Laporte is a tenor from Quebec City in Canada. He has been active on the Canadian and European opera stages, particularly in Germany and Austria, since 1998.[1]

Education

Eric Laporte studied music and singing at Cégep de Sainte-Foy (with Danielle Demers),[2] at the Université du Québec à Montréal (with Joseph Rouleau and Colette Boky)[2] to complete his training with Marie Daveluy[1] as well as at the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal.[2] He says he was inspired to be involved in the performing arts by his aunt Monique Miller and his godmother Louise Rémy, both actresses.[3]

Beginnings

He made his professional debut in 2000 at the Landestheater in Salzburg in Austria, with 25 performances in the role of Tamino from Mozart's The Magic Flute, following his participation in the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna, in 1999. His career in Europe continued with a three-season engagement at the Landestheater in Linz, followed by two seasons at the Theater Bonn, with respectively nine and six light-lyric first tenor roles.[1]

Career

Eric Laporte has been a freelance artist since 2006, which made him collaborate with many opera houses in Europe,[1] including the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, the Cologne Opera, the Bremen Theater, the Reisopera in the Netherlands, the Volksoper in Vienna, the German National Theatre in Weimar, the Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur, the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg, and the Scottish Opera.[4][5][6][7]

Having made his debut as a light-lyric tenor, he was invited in 2012 to perform in the heavier tenor repertoire as Max in Der Freischütz in Gießen,[8] performed again in Hanover in 2015 and 2018.[9] He made his Wagnerian debut with the role of Erik in Der fliegende Holländer in Gießen in 2013,[10] performed again in Hanover in 2017[11] and in his hometown of Quebec City in 2019.[12]

His major opera engagements include Innsbruck (Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de perles in 2014[13] and Faust by Gounod in 2015[14]), Maastricht (Alfredo in La traviata in 2014),[15] Mainz (Alfredo in La traviata in 2014,[16] Cavaradossi in Tosca in 2015,[17] Hoffmann in 2019,[18] Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut[19] and Siegmund in Der Ring an einem Abend[4] in 2020), Kaiserslautern (Duca in Rigoletto in 2016[20] and Nadir in Les Pêcheurs de perles in 2017),[4] Ulm (Calàf in Turandot in 2015,[21] Lohengrin,[22] Werther[23] and Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut[24] in 2016, Radamès in Aïda,[25] Faust by Gounod[26] and Ismaele in Nabucco[27] in 2017), Augsburg (Idomeneo in 2016),[28] Hanover (Max in Der Freischütz in 2015 and 2018, Erik in Der fliegende Holländer in 2017, Faust by Berlioz in 2019, NDR broadcast[29]), Nuremberg (Lohengrin in 2019, BR broadcast),[30] Quebec City (Erik in Der fliegende Holländer in 2019)[31] as well as Frankfurt (Ulysse in Pénélope by Gabriel Fauré in 2019, recorded for Oehms/Naxos).[32]

His concert repertoire includes works such as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony[33] and the oratorio Christus am Ölberge,[34] Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust, Honegger’s Le Roi David[35] and Igor Kuljerić’s Glagolitic Requiem (recorded for BR-Klassik).[36]

To date (March 2021), Eric Laporte has performed in over 80 productions and 40 opera houses.[4]

Discography

References

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  2. ^ a b c "Opéra de Québec". www.facebook.com (in French). Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Éric Laporte - Chanter l'amour de Québec en Allemagne". magazineprestige.com (in French). 7 April 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d "Eric Laporte, tenor". www.operabase.com. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Toulouse - Joel". www.forumopera.com. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Les Troyens à l'Opéra du Rhin : pour Sylvie Brunet et Béatrice Uria-Monzon, grandes tragédiennes". ResMusica (in French). 7 November 2006. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  7. ^ "Seraglio, Theatre Royal, Glasgow". The Guardian. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Pressedetail - Stadttheater Gießen". archiv.stadttheater-giessen.de (in German). Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  9. ^ "Jugendgefährdend, radikal: Webers "Freischütz" in Hannover". DIE WELT (in German). 14 December 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Jubel für "Fliegenden Holländer" im Stadttheater". www.giessener-allgemeine.de (in German). 22 September 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  11. ^ "Ist denn diese Welt noch zu retten?". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine (in German). Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  12. ^ "Festival D'Opéra de Québec 2019 Review: Der Fliegende Holländer". Opera Wire. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  13. ^ "INNSBRUCK: LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES von Georges Bizet". Online Merker (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  14. ^ "Opernnetz - Zeitschrift fuer Musiktheater und Oper". o-ton.online (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  15. ^ "An enthusiastic and vibrant La traviata". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  16. ^ "Mainz". www.deropernfreund.de (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Alles irgendwie so lästig". FrankfurterRundschau (in German). 4 March 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  18. ^ ""Hoffmanns Erzählungen": Hoffmann bei den Gespenstern". FrankfurterRundschau (in German). 5 September 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  19. ^ Zibulski, Axel (27 January 2020). "Theater Mainz zeigt Puccini: Vom Glamour in den Tod". FAZ.NET (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  20. ^ "Fluch und Stimmenglanz - Neustadt". DIE RHEINPFALZ (in German). 14 February 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Begeisternd: Giacomo Puccinis Oper "Turandot" am Theater Ulm". Südwest Presse Online-Dienste (in German). 26 September 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2021.[permanent dead link‍]
  22. ^ "Die Deutsche Bühne". Die Deutsche Bühne (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  23. ^ "Werther Eric Laporte". IOCO Kultur im Netz Das Klassik Portal für Oper, Ballett, Operette und Musical (in German). Archived from the original on 1 September 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  24. ^ "Oper: Giacomo Puccinis Oper "Manon Lescaut" am Theater Ulm: Sehr lyrisch". Südwest Presse (in German). 24 September 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2021.[permanent dead link‍]
  25. ^ "Aida". www.theater-ulm.de (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  26. ^ "Gretchens Höllenfahrt". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  27. ^ "Oper: "Nabucco": Die Fetzen der Heimat". Südwest Presse Online-Dienste (in German). 23 December 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  28. ^ "Kostümlos glücklich | a3kultur | Feuilleton für Augsburg". a3kultur.de (in German). 24 November 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  29. ^ ""Fausts Verdammnis" an der Staatsoper". NP - Neue Presse (in German). 20 February 2019. Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  30. ^ "Im neuen Nürnberger Lohengrin schaut Parzival nach dem Rechten". bachtrack.com (in German). 13 May 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
  31. ^ "Festival D'Opéra de Québec 2019 Review: Der Fliegende Holländer". Opera Wire. 31 July 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  32. ^ "The singularity of Fauré in Oper Frankfurt's Pénélope". Schmopera. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  33. ^ "BEETHOVEN SPIRIT IX - Bolzano - Tutte le date". kultur.bz.it (in Italian). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  34. ^ "Konzertgeschichte". www.oratorienchor-bielefeld.de (in German). Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  35. ^ "Konzertkalender - König David". www.vdkc.de (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  36. ^ "KULJERIĆ, I.: Glagolitic Requiem (Kolar, Schlicht, Laporte, Puškarić, Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra, Repušić) - 900331". www.naxos.com. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  37. ^ "Radio Broadcast: Live from the Konzerthaus in Vienna: Jules Massenet's "Thais" « Thomas Hampson". thomashampson.com. Retrieved 9 March 2021.