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He has since appeared
in many of the world’s finest opera houses and concert halls.
His opera roles include the title role in GIULIO CESARE (Metropolitan
Opera New York, Brussels, Amsterdam, Bilbao), the title role in Gluck’s ORFEO (Netherlands), Oberon A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Lyon, Toronto),
Gualtiero in Scarlatti’s GRISELDA (Berlin
Staatsoper, Innsbruck Festival); Goffredo RINALDO (Berlin Staatsoper, Innsbruck Festival, Opéra de Montpellier);
Ottone AGRIPPINA (La Monnaie, Frankfurt, Lawrence is also closely associated with 20th century and contemporary music. His Paris Opera debut was as Kreon in Liebermann’s MEDEA. He created the role of Trinculo in Thomas Ades’ THE TEMPEST at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and he has sung Sciarrano’s LUCI MIE TRADITRICI in Brussels and New York. He is closely associated with the role of Mascha in Peter Eotvös’ THREE SISTERS which he has performed with the Opera de Lyon, La Monnaie, Hamburg Opera, Edinburgh Festival, Vienna Festival, and in the Netherlands. He made his BBC Symphony Orchestra debut in their commission of Jonathan Dove’s HOJOKI, and sang the Refugee in Dove’s FLIGHT for Glyndebourne.
His recordings include Rinaldo, Messiah, Griselda and Saul for Harmonia Mundi; Serse and Fernando for Virgin Classics, Partenope for Chandos, Deborah for Naxos, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater for Columns Classics, Riccardo Primo and Duetti Amorosi for Sony BMG, as well as Byrdland, the music of William Byrd and Dowland with the Paragon Saxophone Quartet, for Landor Records. A world premiere recording of Handel’s 1735 version of Athalia, as well as a lute recital of early and contemporary mad songs, Lunarcy, will be released next year on the Sony BMG and EPR labels. |
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The
American countertenor Lawrence Zazzo is one of the most outstanding
singers of his generation. A native of Philadelphia, and a graduate
in both Music and English from Yale and King’s College Cambridge,
Lawrence made his operatic debut as Oberon A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM to great acclaim while completing
his vocal studies at the Royal College of Music, London. 
Theatre
de Champs-Elysees, Wiesbaden), Giuliano in Cavalli’s ELIOGABALO (Brussels, Paris), Ottone L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA
(Berlin Staatsoper, La Monnaie, Bayerische Staatsoper); Endimione
LA CALISTO (Covent Garden, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Paris), Arsamene SERSE (Theatre des Champs-Elysees, English National Opera), and the title
role in Handel’s SOSARME (Sao Carlos, Lisbon). 
Lawrence
works with many distinguished conductors in the fields of Baroque
and contemporary music, including Renè Jacobs, Christophe Rousset, ,
Ivor Bolton, Peter Eotvos, William Christie, Harry Bickett, Jean-Claude
Malgoire, Joshua Rifkin, Trevor Pinnock , John Nelson, Jordi Savall,
Harry Christophers, and Paul Goodwin. He was the
first western countertenor invited to China, where he sang MESSIAH
at the Shanghai Opera. His international concert career highlights
include: Jephtha in Graz with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Theodora in Halle with Trevor Pinnock, MESSIAH in Notre Dame Cathedral with L’ensemble
orchestrale de Paris and in a European tour with Renè Jacobs and
the Freiburger Barockorchester, Bach Lutheran Masses
under Joshua Rifkin in Leipzig, St. Matthew Passion
in Ambronay and Kothen with the Akademie fuer Alte Musik , the title
role in Mozart’s ASCANIO IN ALBA with the
Berliner Symphoniker, Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus
and Gloria with the Israel Camerata, Bach
B Minor Mass with the Salzburg Mozarteum, and SAUL in Berlin
and Lisbon with Renè Jacobs and Concerto Köln. His Canadian debut
was as Didymus in THEODORA in Ottawa under Trevor
Pinnock and he sang the title roles of Handel’s LOTARIO
and RICCARDO PRIMO 
with
the Kammerorchester Basel in a European tour with Paul Goodwin.
He most recently worked with Christopher Hogwood singing the title
role of Handel’s AMADIGI in London and Birmingham,
and made his debut at the Salle Pleyel with Jordi Savall in a concert
version of Vivaldi’s FARNACE. An accomplished
recitalist, he has given many around Europe, most recently at the
Festival de Beaune. the Rheinvokal Festival, and the MA Festival Bruges.
Future plans include the title role in Radamisto at the English National Opera, the title role in Giulio Cesare with Nathalie Dessay as Cleopatra in a new production for the Paris Opera, Gluck’s Orfeo in Toronto, and his first Farnace in Mitridate in Munich with Ivor Bolton. In March 2011 he will make his Wigmore Hall debut with a piano recital of American songs.