Laureano Quant is lauded for a voice that is “robust and full of swagger” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the 2024-25 season, the Colombian baritone will make his European debut as Bill in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny with Staatsoper Stuttgart. He also sings El Payador in Maria de Buenos Aires with Madison Opera. This summer, he sings his first performances of Schaunard in La bohème and joins the Steans Music Institute of the Ravinia Festival as a Vocal Fellow.

He is a recently departed member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center at which he sang Le Dancaïre—while also being responsible for Escamillo—in Carmen, Comte de Lerma in Don Carlos, and Stařek in Jenůfa—along with covering Man in the Bar in Champion. Elsewhere, he has sung Betto in Gianni Schicchi with Ópera de Colombia, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as the Captain and Prince Ragonsky in Candide with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotà, and Escamillo in Le tragedie de Carmen and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with The Opera Next Door.

Mr. Quant obtained his Master of Musical Arts from Yale University, and while there sang Belcore in L’elisir d’amore. He also holds a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, at which he sang Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, Figaro in I due Figaro, and Mr. Maguire in Picker’s Emmeline.

In his native country, he has sung Fauré’s Requiem and Bacalov’s Missa Tango with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotà as well as Mozart’s Requiem with the Festival de Música Sacra de Popayán. He has also portrayed Jesus in Bach’s The Passion of St. John at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in New York.

He is a Classical Voice Fellow of the Luminarts Foundation and recipient of the Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize from Yale University. He was the winner of the Online Viewer’s Choice Award at Houston Grand Opera’s Concert of Arias and first prize winner for the Premio de Canto Ciudad de Bogotà. He has also received second prize in regions of the Metropolitan Opera’s Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.

He received further training at the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera and SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. He obtained a Bachelor of Music, double-majoring in composition and vocal performance from Pontifica Universidad Javeriana