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Lawrence Zazzo

Lawrence Zazzo

Born: 15th December 1970, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Nationality: American

Artist's website: https://www.lawrencezazzo.com/

The American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo was born in Philadelphia in 1970 and studied English and Music at Yale and King’s College Cambridge (he later completed a PhD on Handel at Queen’s University Belfast in parallel to his singing career) before training as a singer at the Royal College of Music. His London Handel Festival debut (in the title-role of Arminio) established him as a major talent, and he went onto sing the role at major venues around the world.

Zazzo’s repertoire includes the title-roles in Handel’s Giulio Cesare, Radamisto, Alessandro and Orlando, Oberon in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and numerous contemporary operas: he created the role of Trinculo in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest in 2003, and has also sung The Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Flight and Mascha in Péter Eötvös’s Chekhov-based 1998 opera Three Sisters.

Zazzo’s discography includes the title-role on René Jacobs’s Gramophone Award-nominated recording of Handel’s Saul, Farnace on Classical Opera’s recording of Mozart’s Mitridate, the solo albums A Royal Trio and Byrdland, and (on DVD) the title-role in Giulio Cesare from the Paris Opera, opposite Natalie Dessay’s Cleopatra.

Find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Zazzo

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Interview, Lawrence Zazzo on Weeping Philosophers

13th May 2024

The countertenor and academic discusses his new album exploring depictions of philosophers in music, featuring works by Carissimi, Durante, Strozzi, Purcell and more...

Interview, Lawrence Zazzo on A Royal Trio

21st October 2014

The countertenor talks to Katherine about his new disc of music commissioned by The Royal Academy of Music in the 1720s.

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