L A U R A B O H N
"impressive . . . dominated the stage"
- Opera Magazine, UK
" Bohn sings . . .with a warm power that brings on a wave of goose bumps "
- Trouw, NL
". . . an amazing blend of vocal splendor and physical virtuosity"
- San Francisco Chronicle
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Norma in Before I Die, I Solisti del Vento/Kameroperahuis
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2 0 2 5
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Westward Ho!
European musical pioneers in America: Stravinsky, Schönberg, A. Mahler, Korngold, Dvorak and Weill
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Ruysdael Kwartet and Laura Bohn
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6 Februari 2025, 20:15
Culturele Stichting Cornelis de Vlaming
Alphan aan den Rijn, Nederland
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16 Februari, 2025, 15:00
Noordwijk, Nederland
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by Louis Andriessen
in ‘Louis Andriessen 85’ in memoriam
with I SOLISTI (BE)
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7 Maart 2025, 20:00
Antwerp, Belgium
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Olympic Peninsula, Washington
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July, 2025
Laura will headline a weekend at the iconic music festival
on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Musical guests and details TBA!
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Claude and Marcel (Marcel Moore)
music by Alyssa Weinberg
libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann
directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer
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West Edge Opera in co-production with Seattle Opera
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Fall 2025 | A piano-vocal workshop of Claude & Marcel, led by conductor Jonathan Khuner, director Elkahanah Pulitzer and dramaturg Felix King.
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World Premiere: August 2027
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Looking ahead to 2 0 2 6 . . .
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La voix humaine/La Dame de Monte Carlo
with Seattle Chamber Orchestra in Seattle, Athens, Torino and Amsterdam
The Governess in The Turn of the Screw with West Edge Opera
Theodora in Theodora with 7th Street Productions, Charlotte, NC.
Soloist with Symphony of the Redwoods, CA.
Marcel in Claude and Marcel , WEO, Preview Performance at The Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco
Workshops of She-Monsters, a new opera by Juhi Bansal and Stephanie Fleischmann
Who's afraid of Schönberg? with the Ruysdael Quartet: Schönberg 2nd String Quartet staged
STAY TUNED.
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Recent highlight performances​​
Lullaby
A world premiere sung monodrama in one act.
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Music by Kamala Sankaram
on a libretto by Guillermo Calderón
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September 18, 2024, 20:00
September 19, 2024, 20:00
September 20, 2024, 20:00
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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"Food, Glorious Food!"
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VU and AMC's Annual Anatomische Les in Het Concertgebouw​​​​​​
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​Laura Bohn, soprano and Martijn Sanders, baritone with the Ruysdael Quartet and Friends ​​​
A comical culinary musical journey featuring Broadway hits, Bernsteins' La Bonne Cuisine, selections from Weill's Seven Deadly Sins, and Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
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November 21, 2024, 14:30
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Het Concertgebouw Grote Zaal
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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SUCKTION; A CYBORGOPERA
presented by Open Gate Theater
An operatic monodrama composed by Anne LeBaron to a libretto by celebrated American poet Douglas Kearney, follows a woman’s cyber-erotic transformation from an abject housewife into a self realized super human cyborg via the subversive use of a vacuum cleaner.
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Irona Laura Bohn
stage director Alexander Gedeon
music director Marc Lowenstein
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A one-night-only workshop performance.
May 5, 2024, 7pm
Ticket info at: Open Gate Theater
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Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church
301 N.Orange Grove, Pasadena
Los Angeles, California
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Das Geheimniss der Liebe
Laura joins the award winning Ruysdael String Quartet to open the 10th annual Muziekfestival ZOOM!
An evening of music celebrating the secrets of love including works by Beethoven, Alma Mahler, Resphighi, Dvorak and Weill.
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June 5, 2024, 20.15
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POWDER HER FACE (Duchess)
An opera in Two Acts by Thomas Adés
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Wilminktheater
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De Harmonie
Theater aan het Vrijthof
Stadsschouwburg
De Spiegel
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Koninklijk Theater Carré
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*premiere
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by Louis Andriessen
in ‘Louis Andriessen 85’ in memoriam
with I SOLISTI (BE)
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February 22, 2024
Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ
Amsterdam
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February 23, 2024
Musis
Arnhem
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Lullaby
A world premiere monodrama in one act
Music by Kamala Sankaram
on a libretto by Guillermo Calderón
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a Studio Minailo production
Laura Bohn, soprano
Gijs Kramers, viola
Charlie Bo Meijering, piano/synth
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May 14, 2023, 19:00 (tryout - semi staged concert)
Amsterdam
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May 22, 2023, 20:00 * world premiere
Rotterdam Schouwburg, Grote Zaal
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May 26, 2023, 20:00
Amsterdam
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May 27, 2023, 20:00
Amsterdam
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