LAURA BOHN

 

Laura Bohn's performances have been called "a brilliant tour de force triumph" and "the tragic classicism and intense, focused range of a Callas playing Medea" (Gramophone). 

 

The 2025-26 season brings Laura to eastern, western, northern and southern hemispheres, starting in California with Poulenc’s one-woman opera La voix humaine and Chants d'Auvergne with The Symphony of the Redwoods and a piano-vocal workshop of the world premiere opera Claude and Marcel with West Edge Opera in San Francisco. Laura will originate the role of Marcel in development workshops from '24-'26 with the world premiere at West Edge Opera in 2027.  She will travel to Santiago, Chile to perform Lullaby at the Santiago a Mil International Theater Festival and return to Piemonte, Italy to sing La voix humaine at the Ferrero Foundation Theater. 

Laura will be the storyteller and phoenix in the Persian fable opera Zal and the Phoenix at Charlotte Shout! in North Carolina.  The soprano will be heard with the Seattle Chamber Orchestra singing La voix humaine and at West Edge Opera as the Governess in Britten's Turn of the Screw in the 2026 summer season. 

 

Laura  made her debut with the Nederlandse Reisopera in early 2024  in the title role of the Duchess in Powder her Face.   The reviews raved, "… Laura Bohn ... sang truly excellently Saturday evening …the great Bohn, to the end a pitiful figure as the Duchess, shared the enthusiastic ovation." (Trouw). The Nederlands' premiere of Powder her Face toured major theaters in the Netherlands including Amsterdam's Carré.  Laura's '24-'25 season included her Royal Concertgebouw solo debut singing the works of Weill, Sondheim and Bernstein at the annual Anatomische Les of the Amsterdam UMC and  Andriessen's M is for Man, Music, Mozart with the Belgian wind orchestra I Solisti in Antwerp.

 

Career highlights include the title role in Adés' Powder her Face with WEO, in which "her powerfully sung Duchess" "nimbly aged half a century"  (Opera News,  WSJ), and Bernstein's MASS, singing and dancing at Lincoln Center with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra under the baton of Louis Langrée and with Gustavo Dudamel at the LA Philharmonic.   Other notable performances include The Industry's Hopscotch opera in which she sang a mad scene by Ellen Reid in over 250 performances while in a limousine driving around downtown L.A., and as Nerone in MonteverdISH,  a hip-hop adaptation of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, where "she was literally a bridge between the two worlds of opera and hiphop . . "  (Theater.nl) touring the Netherlands and Belgium. 

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Recent season  highlights include the Witch in a radical urban re-imagining of Hansel and Gretel with Silbersee Opera and Toneel Makerij on a Dutch national tour.  Other role highlights for the soprano include the Governess in The Turn of the Screw at West Edge Opera and Dallas Opera (cover), Anna I in Weill's Seven Deadly Sins at Festival Opera, and Marzelline in Beethoven's Fidelio at Princeton University with the Grand Harmonie Orchestra. In 2018-19 she headlined  The Bernstein Celebration Tour with the Millennium Jazz Orchestra in major Dutch theaters, sang Marinus (cover) in Michel van der Aa’s Sunken Garden at the Dallas Opera, Mozart arias in On Behalf of a Madman with the Grand Harmonie Orchestra in Boston and toured the Netherlands with Silbersee Opera as the villainess in Lev. In 2017 Laura sang the role of Bellini's Norma in Before I Die with I Solisti di Vento and Kameroperahuis on tour in the Netherlands and Belgium and was heard as Elle in La Voix Humaine at National Sawdust in NYC and in the Netherlands.

 

Laura will have her opera-film debut in She Who is Alive by San Francisco based composer Erling Wold playing scientist and espionage ring leader Dr. Maria Stryker, filmed from 2022-24.  Other recent career highlights include Ino in Händel's Semele under the baton of Richard Egarr with Het Residentie Orkest,  and originating the role of JFK's mistress Mary Pinchot Meyer in LSD; the Opera at Walt Disney Concert Hall's REDCAT Theater in LA.  She was a singing and dancing Queen of the Night in DJ Moz’art with Silbersee Opera, a pastiche dance-opera celebrating the life and works of the composer which played over 40 performances in major theaters throughout northern Europe to great critical acclaim.

 

Laura is a champion of living composers and has premiered major works by Anne LeBaron, Kamala Sankaram, Erling Wold, Ellen Reid, Wouter Snoei, Virko Baley, Clark Suprynowicz and Forrest Pierce.  The soprano was a young artist at the Teatro Real (Royal Opera of Spain) in Madrid (‘09-’10), Syracuse Opera in New York (’08) and received the Luciano Pavarotti Memorial Scholarship to attend the International Vocal Arts Institute in TelAviv, Israel.

 

A native of Seattle, Ms. Bohn has studied voice and theater extensively in Rome and Reggio-Emilia, Italy respectively. She is a graduate of the Dell ‘Arte International School of Physical Theater, holds a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music and a BFA in Vocal Performance from the California Institute of the Arts. Laura is a veteran yoga teacher and loves the great outdoors. A Seattle native, she divides her time between the U.S. and Europe, based between Amsterdam and Seattle with her jazz drummer husband and son.