Laurence Meikle | Bass

Laurence will sing Crébillon in Puccini's La Rondine at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples 

Conductor: Juraj Valčuha

Director: Lorenzo Mariani

​

July 12, 15, 19, 22, 24, 2020

Laurence will make his role debut as Sir Giorgio in Bellini's I Puritani

​

Conductor: Gabriele Ferro

Director: Emilio Sagi

​

May 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 2020

​

Teatro di San Carlo, Napoli

Laurence will sing the Herald in Prokofiev's masterpiece at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples 

Conductor: Juraj Valčuha

Director: Alessandro Talevi

​

May 3, 5, 7, 8 2020

​

Teatro di San Carlo Napoli

Laurence will sing the title role in Don Giovanni for the Teatro Sociale di Rovigo, Italy.

​

Conductor: Aldo Sisillo

Director: Stefano Poda

​

December 4, 6, 8, 2019

Teatro Sociale, Rovigo

Festival Suoni dal Golfo, Lerici

Special concert in memory of the Morandi Bridge victims at Genova

​

Mozart Requiem K.626

​

August 27 2019

21.00 Lerici, Italy

​

Laurence joins Coro Ricercare and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra, led by Christoph Poppen in this Mozart mass for the Marvão International Festival, Portugal

​

Conductor: Christoph Poppen

Cologne Chamber Orchestra

Coro Ricercare​

​

July 21, 2019, 11.00

Igreja N. Stra da Estrela, Marvão, Portugal

Laurence makes his role debut as Sam in San Carlo's new production of Un Ballo in Maschera in an all-star cast.

​

Conductor: Donato Renzetti

Director: Leo Muscato

​

February 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28

2019

​

Teatro di San Carlo, Naples

Laurence will return to the role of Colline in Francesco Saponaro's production for the Teatro San Carlo

​Conductor: Alessandro Palumbo

Director: Francesco Saponaro

​

January 15, 17, 18 (per le scuole) 2019

​

Teatro di San Carlo, Naples

​

Opera Gala celebrating the Rossini Opera Festival's Artistic Director and Honorary President, Gianfranco Mariotti. Laurence will sing excerpts from Il turco in Italia (Selim) and Mosè in Egitto (Faraone).

​

December 13, 2018

Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro

Uppala Auditorium, Pesaro

​

Laurence sings Bartolo for the first time, in Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Teatro Savoia, Campobasso. A concert performance on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer's death

​

December 7, 2018

Teatro Savoia, Campobasso, Italy

​

​

After the popularity of their first live recital brodcast, Laurence and the Ensemble Solomon Rossi return for a second installment.  This recital features interviews and further selections from their new disk of the Psalms of Benedetto Marcello, recorded for Concerto Classics

​

Broadcast 21.30

November 25, 2018

​

Radio 24, Il Sole 24 Ore

Italian National Radio

Live recital, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan, Italy

In anticipation of the release of Laurence's latest recording with Concerto Classics, Laurence performs a live recital with Ensemble Solomon Rossi.  Repertoire includes tracks from the new disk of the Psalms of Benedetto Marcello.

​

Broadcast 21.30

November 18, 2018

​

Radio 24, Il Sole 24 Ore

Italian National Radio

Live recital, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan, Italy

Laurence will be the bass soloist for the inauguration of the Festival Suoni dal Golfo, in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle

​

Conductor: Gianluca Marcianò

with Collegium Musicum Almae Matris

​

August 16, 2018

San Francesco Church - Lerici, Italy, 9.30 pm

​

Grenville in San Carlo's new production of La Traviata, with an all-star cast including Nino Machaidze and Leo Nucci.

​

Conductor: Jordi Bernacer/Maurizio Augostini

Director: Lorenzo Amato

​

June 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20

2018

​

Teatro di San Carlo, Naples

​

​

Portinaio in Martin Kusej's acclaimed production. 

​

Conductor: Juraj Valčuha

Director: Martin Kusej

​

Teatro San Carlo, Naples

​

April 15, 18, 20, 21, 22

2018

​

Teatro di San Carlo, Naples

​

Laurence will cover the role of Faraone in David Pountney's new production Rossini's Mosè in Egitto for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples for the work's 200th anniversary

Conductor: Stefano Montanari

Director: David Pountney

​

March 15, 17, 18, 20

2018

​

Teatro San Carlo, Naples

Laurence will return to the role of Colline in a new production for the Teatro San Carlo

​Conductor: Stefano Ranzani

Director: Mario Pontiggia

​

January 11, 12, 13 (matinee), 13, 14, 16

​

Grenville in Ferzan Öspetek's production of La Traviata for Teatro San Carlo, Naples

​

Conductor: Renato Palumbo

Director: Ferzan Öspetek

​

April 23, 26, 29, 30, 

May 3, 4, 5

Laurence will make his role debut as Osmin in Giorgio Strehler's legendary production at the Teatro San Carlo 

Conductor: Hansjörg Albrecht

Director: Giorgio Strehler, restaged by Mattia Testi​

​

October 28, 31

November 2, 5, 7, 8

Laurence will sing Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen in a new production for the Teatro delle Muse Franco Corelli, Ancona

​

Conductor: Guillaume Tourniaire

Director: Francesco Saponaro

​

September 22, 24

Belmonte in Meyerbeer's bel canto extravaganza, Margherita d"Anjou. Modern-day premiere for the Festival della Valle d'Itria.

Conductor: Fabio Luisi

Director: Alessandro Talevi

July 29

August 2, 4

Whilst resident at the Festival della Valle d'Itria, Laurence will cover the role of Astolfo in Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso, accompanied by the baroque ensemble, I Barocchisti.

​

Conductor: Diego Fasolis

Director: Fabio Ceresa

​

June 14, 17

Recital with pianist Giorgio D'Alonzo

Repertoire includes arias of Rossini and Meyerbeer

Convento dei Domenicani, Ceglie Massapica​

July 20, 2017, 21.00

​

Chiostre di San Domenico, Martina Franca

July 22, 2017, 17.00

Recital with pianist Ettore Papadia

Repertoire includes works inspired by Ariosto's Orlando Furioso - Händel, Haydn and Vivaldi

Chiostre di San Domenico, Martina Franca

July 15 and 30, 2017, 17.00

Laurence will sing the role of La Cusinière in Prokofiev's masterpiece

Conductor: Gabriele Ferro

Director: Alessandro Talevi

​

October 9, 10, 12, 13, 14