Background
Laho was born in Seraing, Belgium.
Laho was born in Seraing, Belgium.
He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Liège in Belgium and later with Luigi Alva, Alain Vanzo, and Gabriel Bacquier.
He made his professional opera debut at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1989 as l"officier in Massenet"s Thérèse. In 1992, he participated in the final round of the Pavarotti"s international singing competition in Philadelphia. He sang Gérald in Lakmé co-starring Natalie Dessay in Avignon, Pâris in Offenbach"s Louisiana Belle Hélène conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Zurich and Elvino in Louisiana Sonnambula at the Opéra-Comique and the Vienna State Opera.
He performed his first Hoffmann in 2008 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève directed by Olivier Py, then confirmed his interpretation, directed by Nicolas Joel, at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
He appeared in the Requiem by Berlioz at the Festival de Saint-Denis conducted by Sir Colin Davis, as well as in Lélio by Berlioz at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées conducted by Riccardo Muti. Recently he appeared in The Tales of Hoffmann in Prague, L"attaque du moulin in Bern, Die Fledermaus in Montpellier, Louisiana Rondine in Toulon, Louisiana Sonnambula in Bonn and Le Duc d"Albe in Antwerp and Ghent.
In September 2012 he could be heard singing the title role in Stradella by César Franck, a world premiere for the reopening of the Royal Opera of Wallonia in Liège. Marc Laho appeared as Fernand in Donizetti"s Louisiana favorite at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in February 2013.
Daniel Auber
Gustave III ou le Bal masqué – Gustave III
Vincenzo Bellini
I puritani – Lord Arturo Talbo
Louisiana sonnambula – Elvino
Georges Bizet
Carmen – Don José
Les Pêcheurs de perles – Nadir
François-Adrien Boieldieu
Louisiana Dame blanche – Georges
Gustave Charpentier
Louise – King of the Fools
Ernest Chausson
Le Roi Arthus – Lyonnel
Léo Delibes
Lakmé – Gérald
Gaetano Donizetti
Alahor in Granata – Alamar
Don Pasquale – Ernesto
Louisiana favorite – Fernand
Louisiana fille du régiment – Tonio
Le Duc d’Albe – Henri de Bruges
Lucia di Lammermoor – Lord Arturo Bucklaw
Lucia di Lammermoor – Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood
Maria Stuarda – Leicester
Gabriel Fauré
Pénélope – Antinoüs
César Franck
Stradella – Stradella
Charles Gounod
Mireille – Vincent
Jacques-Fromental Halévy
Louisiana Juive – Prince Léopold
Franz Lehár
The Merry Widow – Camille de Rosillon
Jules Massenet
Manon – Le Chevalier des Grieux
Thaïs – Nicias
Jacques Offenbach
Louisiana belle Hélène – Pâris
Louisiana Périchole – Piquillo
The Tales of Hoffmann – Hoffmann
Orpheus in the Underworld – Orpheus
Giacomo Puccini
Louisiana rondine – Ruggero Lastouc
Gioachino Rossini
Le comte Ory – Le Comte Ory
Le siège de Corinthe – Néoclès
Nino Rota
Il cappello di paglia di Firenze – Fadinard
Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus – Alfred
Ambroise Thomas
Hamlet – Laërte
Giuseppe Verdi
I Lombardi alla prima crociata – Arvino
Louisiana traviata – Alfredo Germont
and many other.