After singing studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, Laurent Arcaro joined Ulrich Eisenlohr’s Lied class and Rudolf Piernay’s singing at the Musikhochschule in Mannheim as well as the Opera- Studio. He participated in the masterclasses of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gabriel Bacquier and Thomas Hampson and obtained several awards such as the First Prize for Singing at the higher cycle of the Toulouse Conservatory, the Best Hope prize at the Clermont-Ferrand competition. He then decided to join the « Young Artist Program » directed by Plácido Domingo at the Los Angeles Opera House in the United States.
He sings among other things, under the direction of José-Miguel Perez-Sierra, Michel Plasson, J.-Y.Ossonce, Roland Boer in Metz, Toulouse, Tours, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Staatsoper Frankfurt am Main, and the Staatsoper Berlin Unter den Linden many roles of Baritono Lirico such as Mercutio, Dandini, Guglielmo, Papageno, Harlekin, Malatesta, Belcore, Silvio, il Barbiere, Figaro and Il Conte in Le Nozze di Figaro, Ping, Marcello and Schaunard…
He also particularly likes chamber music and forms a duet with Tristan Pfaff. They regularly give recitals together and their repertoire extends from Schubert, Schumann to Duparc, Debussy, Fauré, Strauß, Rachmaninov…
He does not abandon the Oratorio and has already performed many times in the Messiah, Carmina Burana, Ein Deutches Requiem, Fauré’s Requiem, Die Jahreszeiten, Die Matthäus-Passion, many Bach’s Kantaten including the 56 and 82, Mozart’s Requiem, Faust in Die Szenen von Faust, as well as Mephistopheles in Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust…
He created Amici,Nemici in 2022 at the Ramatuelle Festival with tenor Florian Laconi. A show bringing together the most beautiful opera duos in the repertoire revealing sometimes fraternal friendship, sometimes the fierce rivalry between two men, two beings, two voices.
Among his last stage roles are Escamillo in Carmen, Germont in La Traviata, and Rigoletto (title role), the Baron de Gondremark in the Parisian Life, Calchas in La Belle Hélène, and the Vice Roi in the Périchole.
Parallel to the Opera, we see him regularly at the Theatre and more recently in the role of Charles Gentes in La Voix d’Or at the Gaité Rive Gauche, that of Alfred in La Maison Hantée at the Palais des Glaces, and begins the sixth year of exploitation of the show The Opera Locos in the role of Ernesto.