Voice Instructor
Vocal Coach
Director
Professional Singer
Originally from Illinois,
mezzo-soprano, Pamela Laurent, received her B.S. in Theatre and Music from
MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois and worked on her masters at the
University of Illinois in Champagne/Urbana. Ms Laurent began her career as a young artist with the Lyric
Opera Center for American Artists in Chicago. While there, she sang a wide
variety of roles on the main stage, including roles in Katya Kabanova, The
Magic Flute, Gianni Schicchi, Rigoletto, Lulu, and
Philip Glass’ Satyagraha. She later reprised her role of Mrs. Alexander
in Satyagraha for Seattle Opera. While in Chicago, Ms Laurent won 1st
prize in the Bel Canto Competition and was a Metropolitan Opera district
finalist. She has sung leading
roles with various opera companies including, Lyric Opera of Chicago,
Whitewater Opera, National Opera Company, and Seattle Opera. She has sung the title role in Carmen,
as well as leading roles in Hansel and Gretel, The Marriage of Figaro,
La Cenerentola, The Tales of Hoffmann and The Merry Widow.
In Germany, Ms Laurent
performed the role of Madame Giry, the ballet-mistress, for the German
production of The Phantom of the Opera.
Ms Laurent has been a
soloist with the San Diego Symphony and was most recently seen as Tisbe for
Lyric Opera San Diego’s production of Cinderella. In 2009, She will be
singing the role of Frederika in The Waltz Dream also for Lyric Opera
San Diego.
She currently has a voice
studio in Encinitas with her husband, Scott Gregory.
Pamela is a member of the National Association of Singing - NATS