Baritone Laurent Naouri has had a long and varied career, with an exceptionally broad repertory ranging from the early Baroque to the modern era. He is a regular at the Opéra National de Paris and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Naouri was born in Paris on May 23, 1964. Studying at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon, he decided to switch to music and moved to London to enroll at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was already playing important operatic roles during and soon after his student years in London, including the Theater Director in Poulenc's Les mamelles de Tiré...