Donna Brown (soprano)

Brown studied vocal technique and opera with Daniel Ferro at the Fondation Royaumont in France, and German Lied at the Franz Schubert Institute in Baden bei Wien, Austria.

Further opera roles included Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, Almirena in Rinaldo (opera), Gilda in Rigoletto, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Michaela in Carmen, Nanetta in Falstaff, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Servillia in La Clemenza di Tito, Serpetta in La Finta Giardiniera, Madeleine in Le Postillon de Lonjumeau, Aricie in Hippolyte et Aricie, and Morgana in Alcina.

Aside from opera, Brown has performed with major conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Bernard Haitink, Helmuth Rilling, Kent Nagano, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur, Carlo Maria Giulini, Jeffrey Tate, Charles Dutoit, Antonio Pappano, Armin Jordan, Daniel Barenboim, and Jane Glover.

She also sang for baroque specialist conductors William Christie, Trevor Pinnock, Philippe Hereweghe, Bernard Labadie, Hervé Niquet, Frieder Bernius, Frans Brüggen, and Jean Claude Malgoire.

[4] During her career Brown has performed in numerous Art Song recitals, with pianists including Roger Vignoles, Menahem Pressler, Philippe Cassard, Stephane Lemelin, Jean-Marc Luisada, Maria-João Pires, Michel Dalberto, Paul Badura Skoda, Jean Marc Luisada, Stefan Mendl, Peter Tiefenbach, Bruce Ubukata, Stephen Ralls, Jean Desmarais, Alain Planes, Jane Coop, Francoise Tillard, Cyril Huvé, Olivier Godin, Martin Dubé, and Michael McMahon.