Barranquilla, Colombia
ROLE(S): Escamillo (Carmen)
Laureano Quant is lauded for a voice that is “robust and full of swagger” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the 2024-2025 season, the Colombian baritone will make his European debut as Bill in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny with Staatsoper Stuttgart. He also sings El Payador in Maria de Buenos Aires with Madison Opera. In 2024, he sang his first performances of Schaunard in La bohème as a Filene Artist with Wolf Trap Opera and joined the Steans Music Institute of the Ravinia Festival as a vocal fellow. He is a recently departed member of Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he sang Le Dancaïre—while also being responsible for Escamillo—in Carmen, Comte de Lerma in Don Carlos, and Stařek in Jenůfa, along with covering Man in the Bar in Champion. Elsewhere, he has sung Betto in Gianni Schicchi with Ópera de Colombia; Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as the Captain and Prince Ragotsky in Candide with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotà; and Escamillo in Le tragedie de Carmen and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with The Opera Next Door. Mr. Quant obtained his master’s of musical arts degree from Yale University, and while there sang Belcore in L’elisir d’amore. He also holds a master’s degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music, at which he sang Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, Figaro in I due Figaro, and Mr. Maguire in Picker’s Emmeline. He is a classical voice fellow of the Luminarts Foundation and recipient of the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize from Yale University. Mr. Quant was the winner of the Online Viewer’s Choice Award at Houston Grand Opera’s Concert of Arias. He also received second prize in New England, western, and southeast regions of the Laffont Competition.