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DONNA
BROWN, Soprano |
Renowned for the floating golden-hued quality of her voice, celebrated Canadian soprano Donna Brown performs on the world’s great opera and concert stages of Paris, London, Tokyo, Geneva, Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Sao Paolo, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She has worked with such distinguished conductors as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Helmuth Rilling, Carlo Maria Giulini, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bernard Haitink, Marek Janowski, Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim, Armin Jordan, Kent Nagano, Jeffrey Tate, Charles Dutoit, Semyon Bychkov, Mario Bernardi, William Christie, Pinchas Zukerman, and Trevor Pinnock.
Ms. Brown has received critical acclaim for her roles as Pamina (Die Zauberflöte),
Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier), Almirena (Rinaldo), Gilda (Rigoletto), Rosina
(Il Barbiere di Seviglia), Michaela (Carmen), Nanetta (Falstaff), Zerlina
(Don Giovanni), Servillia (La Clemenza di Tito), Serpetta (La Finta Giardiniera),
Madeleine (Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) Aricie (Hippolyte et Aricie) Scylla
(Scylla et Glaucus) and Morgana (Alcina). Ms. Brown also appeared as Chimène
in the world premiere creation of Debussy’s unfinished opera Rodrigue
et Chimène for the opening of the renovated Opera de Lyon.
Recitals have always been of major importance to her, and she has sung in
over a hundred recitals with such pianists as Michel Dalberto, Maria Joao
Pires, Roger Vignolles, Alain Planes, Stephane Lemelin, Philippe Cassard,
Bruce Ubukata, Stephen Ralls, Jean Marc Luisada, Michael McMahon and Peter
Tiefenbach.
In May 2005, France Musique recorded a three hour program on Donna Brown which
consisted of a live interview, (with 500 spectators) involving a retrospective
of her career with excerpts from her various recordings, and a live performance
in which she sang Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wolf, Debussy, and Michael Head, with
Philippe Cassard at the piano
Highlights for the 2008/2009 season include MAHLER FOURTH SYMPHONY and SCHUBERT LIEDER ORCHESTRATED with Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, HAYDN'S 'PAUKENMESSE" with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, BRAHMS and HAYDN recital with the NAC Chamber Music Series, HAYDN'S CREATION with Petrobas Sinfonica Orchestra, Rio de Janeiro, RECITALS in France with Philippe Cassard, in LeHavre, and for the Series, CONCERT DE POCHES, a BACH and HAENDEL program with Ottawa's 13 STRINGS, and HAYDN'S CREATION with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
Highlights of 2007/2008 ..... Brahms recitalS with Philippe Cassard for the
"FESTIVAL DES NUITS ROMANTIQUES", France, the Brahms requiem with
the SYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA, SCHUBERT LIEDER ORCHESTRATED, with ORCHESTER NURENBURG,
Germany, SCHUBERT RECITALS at "LA FOLLE JOURNEE DE NANTES", France,
BACHIANAS BRASILEIRAS, and CANTANTA 51 with CALGARY PHILHARMONIC, Murray Schafer's
GITANJALI with the NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ORCHESTRA recitals wth Philippe Cassard
for the festivals "PROQUARTET FONTAINEBLEAU", and "CONCERTS
DE POCHES" in FRANCE... BRAHMS REQUIEM with "FESTIVAL VANCOUVER",
and numerous concerts with DUO BRAZIL in FRANCE, CANADA and GUADELOUPE. Ms
Brown was also invited by the YONSEI UNIVERSITY, in SEOUL, for a week of teaching.