Michael Laporte is an American tenor based in Berlin. His repertoire includes Jaquino (Fidelio), Monostatos and the First Armored Man (Die Zauberflöte), multiple roles in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges (La Théière / Le Petit Vieillard / La Rainette), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and Parpignol (La bohème).
He has appeared with MusiquEleganz, Opera Company of Middlebury, Trentino Music Festival, and the Croatian Opera Academy.
Michael Laporte studied opera at the Mason Gross School of the Arts (M.M.) and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (B.M.). He has worked with voice teachers including Sami Kustaloglu, Neil Shicoff, and Dawn Shicoff, as well as with répétiteurs and conductors such as Tim Ribchester and Emmanuel Plasson.
Performance Experience
La Théière - L’enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), MusiquEleganz, 2025
Le Petit Vieillard - L’enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), MusiquEleganz, 2025
La Rainette - L’enfant et les sortilèges (Ravel), MusiquEleganz, 2025
Tito - La clemenza di Tito (Mozart), Croatian Opera Academy, 2025
Jaquino - Fidelio (Beethoven), Opera Company of Middlebury, 2023
Parpignol - La bohème (Puccini), Rutgers Opera, 2023
Nemorino - L’elisir d’amore (Donizetti), Opera Magnifico, 2023
Lubin (cover) - L’arbre enchanté (Gluck), Hogfish Maine, 2022
Blaise (cover) - L’arbre enchanté (Gluck), Hogfish Maine, 2022
Valetto - L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi), Trentino Music Festival, 2022
Tamino (cover) - Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Trentino Music Festival, 2022
Monostatos - Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Trentino Music Festival, 2022
Geharnischter Mann - Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Trentino Music Festival, 2022
Orphée (cover) - Orphée aux enfers (Offenbach), Opera Company of Middlebury, 2022
Lysander - A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten), Rutgers Opera, 2022
Vladimir Igorevich - Prince Igor (Borodin), Russian Opera Workshop, 2018
Education and Training
M.M. Opera Performance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2023
B.M. Vocal Performance, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018