American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo made his operatic debut as Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to great acclaim while still a student at the Royal College of Music in London and has since performed the role extensively including at Canadian Opera Company, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and at Staatsoper Hamburg. In the current season Zazzo repeats the role at Wiener Staatsoper in a new staging by Irina Brook and conducted by Simone Young.
A diverse and thriving international opera career has taken Zazzo to most of the world’s leading opera houses and festivals appearing as Giulio Cesare at La Monnaie, English National Opera, Semperoper Dresden and Opéra national de Paris (released on DVD), Farnace in Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto for Bayerische Staatsoper, and Tolomeo (Giulio Cesare) at the Metropolitan Opera. He has sung the title roles in Radamisto for English National Opera, Orlando for Welsh National Opera, and Solomon for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice) for Canadian Opera Company and Den Norske Opera, Bertarido in Claus Guth’s production of Rodelinda for Opéra National de Lyon, Ottone (Agrippina) at Oper Frankfurt and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Goffredo (Rinaldo) for Staatsoper Berlin and Opernhaus Zürich, Arsamene (Xerxes) for Oper Frankfurt, and Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) for Theater an der Wien, La Monnaie and Bayerische Staatsoper. Further opera appearances in the 19/20 season include a debut as Handel’s Tamerlano at Oper Frankfurt, and Rodelinda at Dutch National Opera under Riccardo Minasi.
