Biography

Born in Belgium, Marc Laho debuted at the Monte Carlo Opera in Thérèse. He also set himself apart as a finalist in the Luciano Pavarotti Competition in Philadelphia.

He soon began to play leading roles such as Gérald (Lakmé) alongside Natalie Dessay at the Avignon Opera, Tonio (La Fille du Régiment) in Geneva, Pâris (La Belle Hélène) conducted by Harnoncourt in Zurich, and Elvino (la Sonnambula) at the Opéra Comique and the Vienna Staatsoper.

He regularly sings Piquillo (La Périchole), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Arturo (Lucia de Lammermoor), Alfredo (La Traviata), Des Grieux (Manon) and the title role of Comte Ory in major French opera houses such as Avignon, the Opéra Comique, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Opéra du Rhin, Marseille, the Théâtre du Capitole, and the Opéra National de Lyon, as well as internationally, such as at Madrid’s Teatro Real, La Scala, Barcelona’s Liceu, Berlin, Zurich, London’s Proms, and the Glyndebourne Festival. He has also performed at the Edinburgh Festival as Lyonnel (le Roi Arthus) and Antinous (Pénélope), as well as at the San Francisco Opera as the Pape des Fous (Louise) and Fernando (La Favorite).

After singing Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) for the first time in Geneva in an Olivier Py production, and then at Turin’s Teatro Regio and the Prague, Zurich and Basel Operas, he recently revisited the role in Toulon. He also played Faust (La Damnation de Faust) in Basel, Cavaradossi (Tosca) and Nadir (Les Pécheurs de Perles) at the Opéra de Wallonie, Ulysse (Pénélope) at the Opéra du Rhin and Fernando (la Favorite) in concert at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

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More recently, he as played Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann) at the Stuttgart Opera, Rodolfo (La Bohème) at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and Faust (Damnation de Faust) at the Bolshoï,  Nadir (Les Pécheurs de Perles) in Oman, Don José (Carmen), Faust at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Pollione (Norma) in Rouen and  in Oman, Jason (Cherubini's Médée) in Rouen, Azaël (L'Enfant Prodigue) in Nancy, Gaston (Jerusalem) in Liège and in Moscow, Faust (Damnation de Faust) in Toulouse and in La Côte Saint André, Hoffmann (Les Contes d'Hoffmann) at the Berlin Deutsche Oper, Nadir (Les Pécheurs de Perles) in Lille, Rodolfo (la Bohème) in Liege, Samson (Samson et Dalila) in Avignon, Faust (Damnation de Faust) in La Côte Saint-André, Nadir (Les Pécheurs de Perles) in Anwerpen.

He is currently preparing  to sing, Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte) in Nice and Radamès (Aïda) in Avignon...