Laurence “Larry” Panter is an alumnus of Caius College, Cambridge and Trinity Laban Conservatoire, where he read music and studied singing respectively. As an operatic tenor, he has worked with companies such as Longborough Festival Opera, Opera Northern Ireland, Celebrate Voice Festival, King’s Head Theatre and L’Offerta Musicale di Venezia and performed fully staged roles including Nemorino (L’Elisir d’Amore), Ferrando (Così fan Tutte), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Inkslinger (Paul Bunyan), Acis (Acis & Galatea) and Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana). As a concert soloist, Laurence has performed, among other works, various Bach cantatas, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation and Mozart’s Mass in C minor. Laurence also works as a pianist and this year has accompanied fully staged productions of Glück’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Grassroots Opera), Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (Stage Left Project) and Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (Opera in the Meantime). In his downtime, he enjoys playing hide and seek with his two cats, Watty and Sus.