![]() ![]() ![]() To scan Laporte’s calendar is to be bewildered by the ocean crossings required of a young singer these days. And it was as a baritone that he won the grand prize at the 2014 OSM Manulife Competition in Montreal. It was as a baritone that he earned the La Scala prize at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Austria. This supporting role happens to be classified, along with a few others, as a bass.īut let us be clear: Hugo Laporte is a baritone. Quite notably, Laporte makes his La Scala debut in March as a Cappadocian in Richard Strauss’s Salome. Last April he performed Schumann’s Dichterliebe with pianist Jean-François Mailloux – a few months before singing Riff in West Side Story for the Orchestre de la Francophonie under Jean-Philippe Tremblay. In April he sings with the Orchestre symphonique de Québec under Bernard Labadie in Beethoven’s Mass in C. In Toronto he was appearing as the Prosecutor in Julien Bilodeau’s semi-operatic Pink Floyd tribute, Another Brick in the Wall. The Quebec City native is comfortable not only in this range but in a remarkable array of repertoire.
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