My Notes: Lawrence Brownlee is a renowned tenor who is associated with the Bel Canto Repertoire. I have downloaded several videos which features some of his major operatic performances. If you would like to listen to other performances, type his name in the search box
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Lawrence Brownlee (born 1972) is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire.
Early life and education
Brownlee was born in Youngstown, Ohio. He grew up without much exposure to classical music, but had an extremely musical childhood, playing trumpet, guitar and drums, and sang gospel music in church. Brownlee attended Anderson University in Indiana for his undergraduate degree and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music for graduate studies. He studied with soprano Costanza Cuccaro, David Starkey, and Fritz Robertson. While a graduate student, he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, his desire to become a member was due in large part to his association with members of its Alpha chapter, founded at Indiana University Bloomington in January 1911. He was officially initiated into the Indianapolis Alumni Chapter in the fall of 1999, but considers himself close to the founding chapter and was involved in many of its activities while a student. He became a life member in 2008
Brownlee participated in young artist programs at the Seattle Opera and the Wolf Trap Opera Company.
Brownlee’s professional stage debut took place in 2002 as Almaviva in Rossini's The Barber of Seville with Virginia Opera. Brownlee made his Metropolitan Opera debut in a new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia in 2007. The role has since become one of his most recognizable and famous.[2] He has subsequently appeared in Il Barbiere in Vienna, Milan, Berlin, Madrid, Dresden, Munich, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, Tokyo, New York, Washington, San Diego, Seattle, and Boston.] Brownlee's career highlights include performances of The Barber of Seville at the Vienna State Opera, the Boston Lyric Opera and Madrid's Teatro Real. He has appeared in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri, and La Cenerentola at Milan's La Scala, as Belfiore in Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims in Brussels and as Tonio in Donizetti's La fille du régiment at the Cincinnati Opera. In concert, Brownlee has performed in Handel's Messiah with the Houston Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony. He has given recitals under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, and was featured in one of that Foundation's Gala Concerts at Lincoln Center.[3][6] In a departure from his usual repertoire, he created the role of Syme in Lorin Maazel's opera 1984 in its world premiere at London's Royal Opera House on May 3, 2005. He has also received acclaim in Rossini's Armida, alongside Renée Fleming and in the famously challenging role of Tonio in La fille du régiment, both at the
Metropolitan Opera.
In May 2010, Brownlee performed a concert with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in the United States Supreme Court Building for the Supreme Court justices.
Brownlee lives in Atlanta with his wife, Kendra, and two children. He is passionate about the Pittsburgh Steelers, photography and table tennis, and is an avid salsa dancer.]
All Night, All Day - Lawrence Brownlee, tenor & Damien Sneed, piano (arranged
Lawrence Brownlee - Mozart - Un'aura amorosa (Cosi Fan Tutte)
Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti (Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers) K. 588, is an Italian-language opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Così fan tutte is one of the three Mozart operas for which Da Ponte wrote the libretto. The other two Da Ponte-Mozart collaborations were Le nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni.
Although it is commonly held that Così fan tutte was written and composed at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II, recent research does not support this idea. There is evidence that Mozart's contemporary Antonio Salieri tried to set the libretto but left it unfinished. In 1994, John Rice uncovered two terzetti by Salieri in the Austrian National Library.
The title, Così fan tutte, literally means "Thus do all [women]" but it is often rendered as "Women are like that". The words are sung by the three men in act 2, scene 3, just before the finale. Da Ponte had used the line "Così fan tutte le belle" earlier in Le nozze di Figaro (in act 1, scene 7).
Lawrence Brownlee - La Cenerentola - Si, ritrovarla io giuro – 2009
Italian Girl in Algiers, Philadelphia 2008
Lawrence Brownlee - In quale aspetto imbelle - Armida – 2010
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