Hailed by Opera News as “a very promising high tenor,” Cuban-American, Fran Daniel Laucerica has been praised for his clarity, agility and musical versatility as a rising star on the operatic and concert stages. 

This season, Mr. Laucerica returns to Pittsburgh Opera as a Resident Artist, where he reprises the role of Beppe/Pagliacci, as well as performs the roles of Spoletta/Tosca, Rinaldo/Armida, and Thomas in the world premiere of Higdon’s Woman With Eyes Closed. Also in the 2024/25 season, Laucerica debuts with Pittsburgh Festival Opera as Poisson/Adriana Lecouvreur, reprises the role of Conte d’Almaviva/Il barbiere di Siviglia with First Coast Opera and returns as a Tenor Soloist in St. Matthew Passion with Madison Bach Musicians.

As a young artist at The Glimmerglass Festival, Laucerica performed as Beppe/Pagliacci and covered the role of Dan Leno/Elizabeth Cree. The earlier part of the 2023/24 season saw Laucerica as Conte Almaviva/Il barbiere di Siviglia in a student matinee performance, as well as Pylade/Iphigénie en Tauride, Miles Zegner/Proving Up, and Gastone/La traviata with Pittsburgh Opera, where he also covered the roles of Steuermann/Der fliegende Holländer, and Alfredo/La traviata. Also that season, Laucerica rejoined Grammy-award winning new music ensemble The Crossing in his Philadelphia Orchestra debut singing Vespers of the Blessed Earth by John Luther Adams, returned as the Evangelist and Tenor Soloist for Cantata, BWV 8 and Christmas Oratorio, Part V with Madison Bach Musicians, and covered the role of Arcadio/Florencia en el Amazonas with Opera San Jose.

Laucerica’s 2022/23 season as a Virginia Opera Emerging Artist saw him performing as Alfredo/La Traviata as well as Gastone, and covering Frederic/The Pirates of Penzance, and Timothy Laughlin/Fellow Travelers. Later in the season, he joined The Crossing, debuting Hearne’s Farming, and making his New York Philharmonic debut singing the premiere of unEarth by Julie Wolfe. Other performances included his house and role debut with First Coast Opera as Silvio/Le docteur miracle, as a guest soloist at Lawrence University in the Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op. 52, and his debut with Madison Bach Musicians in a concert of Latin American Baroque Music. 

In the 2021/22 season, Laucerica was a young artist with The Glimmerglass Festival, premiering the leading role of Dante/Tenor Overboard, a newly fashioned Rossini pastiche by Ken Ludwig, and covered the tenor roles in both Sankaram’s Taking Up Serpents, and the premiere of Geter’s Holy Ground. He was also a Resident Artist with Toledo Opera, where he sang Count Almaviva in a touring production of The Barber of Seville, Ferrando/Cosí fan tutte (Resident Artist Performance) and Gastone in La Traviata. Additionally, Mr. Laucerica joined Seaglass Theater Company to perform scenes from Les pêcheurs de perles and Arrieta’s Marina.

Mr. Laucerica's other recent opera credits include covering Adolfo Pirelli/Sweeney Todd, Comte Barigoule/Cendrillon, and Satyavān in Holst’s Sāvitri with Wolf Trap Opera, singing Miguelín in the premiere of Omar Najmi's En la ardiente oscuridad with Catalyst New Music Ensemble, The Vain Man/The Snake in Rachel Portman’s The Little Prince as well as Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni (cover) with NEMPAC Opera, and Peter Quint/Turn of the Screw (cover), Reverend Samuel Parris/The Crucible, and the title role in Albert Herring with Chicago Summer Opera. Other roles include Ernesto/Don Pasquale, The Magician in The Consul, and Chevalier de la Force/Dialogues des Carmélites (cover) with Boston Conservatory.

On the concert stage, Mr. Laucerica has been the tenor soloist in varied works including Orff’s Carmina Burana with Lexington Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the Lancaster Symphony Orhcestra and the Callipygian Players, Hailstork’s I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes with Glencoe Union Church, as well as Mozart’s Coronation Mass, and Puccini’s Messa di Gloria as a guest soloist with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra. A passionate advocate for new music, Mr. Laucerica has premiered several works including Samuel Carl Adams’ Light Readings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW initiative and David Lang’s a house with the Bienen Contemporary Vocal Ensemble.

Mr. Laucerica is a recent Encouragement Award Winner in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, as well as the Third-Prize Winner in the 2023 Handel Aria Competition, and semi-finalist in the SAS Performing Arts, Camerata Bardi and Music International Grand Prix competitions. He graduated from the Boston Conservatory with a Master’s in Opera Performance and a Bachelor’s from Northwestern University.