Lawrence Vincent
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Stage Director
Born in the state of Utah and raised in Colorado, Lawrence Vincent received his undergraduate degree in Music education at Brigham Young University and his Master of Music at Northern Arizona University. In 1982 he completed his doctorate studies at the University of Michigan.
His professional opera career began in New York City with the Boris Goldovsky Opera Co. and later at the Michigan Opera Theater. Before moving to Europe in 1982 where he was engaged as lyric tenor in Trier Germany, he and his wife wrote, produced and performed programs with the Colorado public school introducing young audiences to opera. In 1987 he was offered a contract with the Vienna “Volksoper” singing leading roles in opera as well as operetta. From 1991 to 1996, he was a member of the Vienna State Opera solo ensemble singing such roles as “Tamino” in Die Zauberflöte, “Narraboth” in Salome and “The Singer” in Rosenkavalier.
As a result of his “extraordinary contribution to the arts in the field of music”, Dr. Vincent was awarded Austrian citizenship in 1994.
His solo concert tours have taken him to virtually all the European countries, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Australia and the United States. As a guest soloist, he has sung leading roles in numerous opera and operetta productions in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, Japan, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the United States.
Dr. Vincent’s repertoire includes major roles in over 45 different operas and operettas with more than 1200 stage appearances to his credit.
Dr. Vincent is presently a professor of music and member of the voice faculty as well as the director of opera at the School of Music at Brigham Young University where he has produced and/or directed Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte, Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, Jacque Ibert’s Angelique, Offenbach’s Les countes d’Hoffmann, Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata , Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel, Kirke Mechem’s Tartuffe, Pucinni’s Gianni Schicchi, and La bohème, Bizet’s Carmen, the world premiers of Murray Boren’s The Book of Gold and M. Ryan Taylor’s Abinadi, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, Trial by Jury and The Gondoliers; The Fowl Opera Trilogy by Tom Benjamin, The Wolf and the Lamb by David Chevez, Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Telephone, Help, Help the Globolinks and Amahl and the Night Visitors and Johann Strauss Jr.’s Die Fledermaus
He has also as a guest director for the Richard Crittenden Workshop in Washington DC since 2005.