Eric Laporte (tenor)

[3] 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.

[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).