Laureano Quant, baritone
A second-year member of Lyric Opera’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Ensemble and a native of Barranquilla, Colombia, the baritone holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.
Highlights of his repertoire include Belcore in The Elixir of Love, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Figaro in Saverio Mercadante’s I due Figaro, Maguire in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers, Vittorio and The Boarder in Nino Rota’s I due timidi, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Captain and Prince Ragotsky in Candide.
In the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Quant was awarded Second Place in both the Western Region (2022) and the Southeastern Region (2020). He has also won the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Men’s Voice Fellowship (2023), the Online Audience Award in Houston Grand Opera’s Concert of Arias (2020), and First Prize in the Premio de Canto Ciudad de Bogotá (2018).
Quant has participated in prestigious programs such as the Merola Opera Program and SongStudio, the latter led by Renée Fleming at Carnegie Hall, and has appeared in concert with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. In Lyric’s 2022/23 Season, Quant sang Dancaïre in Carmen and Count of Lerma in Don Carlos. He appears in La fille du régiment and Jenufa during the 2023/24 Season.
A second-year member of Lyric Opera’s Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Ensemble and a native of Barranquilla, Colombia, the baritone holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a Master of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.
Highlights of his repertoire include Belcore in The Elixir of Love, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Figaro in Saverio Mercadante’s I due Figaro, Maguire in Tobias Picker’s Emmeline, Zurga in The Pearl Fishers, Vittorio and The Boarder in Nino Rota’s I due timidi, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Captain and Prince Ragotsky in Candide.
In the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, Quant was awarded Second Place in both the Western Region (2022) and the Southeastern Region (2020). He has also won the Luminarts Cultural Foundation Men’s Voice Fellowship (2023), the Online Audience Award in Houston Grand Opera’s Concert of Arias (2020), and First Prize in the Premio de Canto Ciudad de Bogotá (2018).
Quant has participated in prestigious programs such as the Merola Opera Program and SongStudio, the latter led by Renée Fleming at Carnegie Hall, and has appeared in concert with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. In Lyric’s 2022/23 Season, Quant sang Dancaïre in Carmen and Count of Lerma in Don Carlos. He appears in La fille du régiment and Jenufa during the 2023/24 Season.