Lawrence K. Bakst (USA)

Voice Lessons

Lawrence Bakst studied singing with Hans W. Heinz at the Juilliard School of Music and in Italy with Franco Corelli, Mario del Monaco, Carlo Bergonzi and Arrigo Pola. He won first prizes at the Metropolitan National Opera Auditions, and the Vercelli, Toulouse and Barcelona (F. Vinas) competitions.

He became a company member of the Wuppertal Theatre and soon began an extensive European career with guest appearances in Marseille, at the Liceu Barcelona, and the Wexford Festival. Productions of La Gioconda at the National Theatre Mannheim, of Luisa Miller at the Munich Gärtnerplatz Theatre, of Leoncavallo’s La Bohème and Verdi’s Otello in Prague exemplify his success in the Italian spinto repertoire.

More recently Lawrence Bakst has made the heroic roles in German and French opera his specialty, singing the title role of Meyerbeers Le Prophète in Münster, Beethoven’s Fidelio in Magdeburg, the Klosterneuburg Festival and in Wuppertal, and Wagner’s Tannhäuser and Siegfried at the National Theatre Weimar, in Magdeburg and Detmold. Lawrence Bakst has also performed at major theatres worldwide such as the Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, the Teatro Real de Madrid, the Opéra Paris, the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro and in Tokyo.