Lawrence Brownlee |

Lawrence Brownlee

U-Lawrence Brownlee ungomunye wabaculi be-bel canto abaqashelwa kakhulu futhi abafunwa kakhulu osukwini lwethu. Umphakathi nabagxeki bayaqaphela ubuhle nokukhanya kwezwi lakhe, ukuphelela kobuchwepheshe, okumvumela ukuba enze izingxenye ezinzima kakhulu ze-tenor repertoire yemizamo ngaphandle komzamo obonakalayo, ubuciko obuphefumulelwe.

Umculi wazalwa ngo-1972 e-Youngstown (Ohio). Uthole iziqu zeBachelor of Arts e-Anderson University (South Carolina) kanye neziqu zeMasters of Music e-Indiana University. Ngo-2001 wawina umncintiswano weNational Vocal Competition owawuphethwe yiMetropolitan Opera. Uthole inani lemiklomelo ehlonishwayo, imiklomelo, imiklomelo kanye nezibonelelo (2003 - Richard Tucker Foundation Grant; 2006 - Marion Anderson noRichard Tucker Prizes; 2007 - Philadelphia Opera Prize for Artistic Excellence; 2008 - Seattle Opera Artist of the Year isihloko).

UBrownlee wenze isiteji sakhe sokuqala sobungcweti ngo-2002 eVirginia Opera, lapho acula khona u-Count Almaviva ku-Rossini ethi The Barber of Seville. Ngawo lowo nyaka, umsebenzi wakhe waseYurophu waqala - i-debut e-Milan's La Scala engxenyeni efanayo (lapho ayenza khona kamuva eVienna, eMilan, eMadrid, eBerlin, eMunich, eDresden, eBaden-Baden, eHamburg, eTokyo, eNew York, ISan-Diego neBoston).

I-repertoire yomculi ihlanganisa izindima ezihamba phambili kuma-opera kaRossini (I-Barber yaseSeville, Intombazane yase-Italy e-Algeria, i-Cinderella, uMose eGibhithe, i-Armida, i-Count of Ori, i-Lady of the Lake, i-Turk e-Italy) , "Otello", "Otello", “Semiramide”, “Tancred”, “Journey to Reims”, “The Thieving Magpie”), Bellini (“Puritans”, “Somnambulist”, “Pirate”), Donizetti (“Love Potion”, “Don Pasquale”, Indodakazi ka the Regiment”), Handel (“Atis and Galatea”, “Rinaldo”, “Semela”), Mozart (“Don Giovanni”, “Magic Flute”, “Yilokho okwenziwa yiwo wonke umuntu”, “Ukuthunjwa kweSeraglio”), Salieri (Axur, King Ormuz), Myra (Medea in Corinth), Verdi (Falstaff), Gershwin (Porgy and Bess), Britten (Albert Herring, The Turn of the Screw), ama-opera esimanje kaL. Maazel (“1984”, umbukiso wokuqala womhlaba eVienna), D. Katana (“Florencia in the Amazon”).

U-Lawrence Brownlee wenza izindima ze-tenor emisebenzini ye-cantata-oratorio ka-Bach (John Passion, Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat), Handel (Mesiya, Judas Maccabee, Saul, Israel in Egypt”), Haydn (“The Four Seasons”, “Creation Lomhlaba”, “Nelson Mass”), Mozart (Requiem, “Great Mass”, “Coronation Mass”), izixuku zikaBeethoven (C major), Schubert, oratorios Mendelssohn (“Paul”, “Elijah”), Rossini’s Stabat I-Mater, i-Stabat Mater ne-Dvorak's Requiem, i-Orff's Carmina Burana, izingoma zika-Britten, njll.

I-repertoire yegumbi lomculi ihlanganisa izingoma zika-Schubert, i-concert arias nama-canzones kaRossini, uDonizetti, uBellini, uVerdi.

Eqala umsebenzi wakhe ezigabeni ze-opera zaseMelika, uBrownlee washeshe wathola udumo emhlabeni wonke. Washayelwa ihlombe izinkundla zemidlalo yeshashalazi namahholo ekhonsathi eNew York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles; I-Rome ne-Milan, i-Paris ne-London, i-Zurich ne-Vienna, i-Toulouse ne-Lausanne, i-Berlin ne-Dresden, i-Hamburg ne-Munich, i-Madrid ne-Brussels, i-Tokyo ne-Puerto Rico… Iciko libambe iqhaza kumafestivali amakhulu (okuhlanganisa namafestivali ase-Rossini e-Pesaro nase-Bad -Wildbade) .

I-discography yalo mculi ihlanganisa iThe Barber of Seville, The Italian in Algeria, Cinderella (DVD), Armida (DVD), Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mayr’s Medea in Corinth, Maazel’s 1984 (DVD), Carmina Burana Orff (CD neDVD), “ Izingoma zesiNtaliyane”, ukuqoshwa kwezingoma zegumbi nguRossini noDonizetti. Ngo-2009, u-Laurence Brownlee, kanye nezinkanyezi ze-opera yomhlaba, i-choir kanye ne-orchestra ye-Berlin Deutsche Oper ngaphansi kuka-Andrei Yurkevich, babamba iqhaza ekurekhodweni kwe-Opera Gala Concert ehlelwe yi-AIDS Foundation. Okuningi okurekhodiwe kwenziwe kulebula ye-EMI Classics. Lo mculi uphinde asebenzisane ne-Opera Rara, Naxos, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Virgin Classics.

Phakathi kwabalingani bakhe besiteji nabaqophayo kukhona u-Anna Netrebko, u-Elina Garancha, uJoyce Di Donato, uSimone Kermes, uRené Fleming, uJennifer Larmor, uNathan Gunn, abadlali bopiyano uMartin Katz, uMalcolm Martineau, abaqhubi bakaSir Simon Rattle, uLorin Maazel, u-Antonio Pappano, u-Alberto Zedda no ezinye izihlabani eziningi, iPhilharmonic Orchestras yaseBerlin naseNew York, iMunich Radio Orchestras, iSanta Cecilia Academy…

Ngesizini ka-2010-2011, u-Lawrence Brownlee wenze umdlalo wakhe wokuqala ezinkundleni zemidlalo yeshashalazi ezintathu ngesikhathi esisodwa: i-Opéra National de Paris kanye ne-Opéra de Lausanne (uLindor e-Italian Girl e-Algiers), kanye nakuCanadian Opera (Prince Ramiro eCinderella). Uqale ukucula indawo ka-Elvino kwiLa Sonnambula eSt. Gallen (Switzerland). Ngaphezu kwalokho, ukuzibandakanya komculi ngesizini edlule kufaka phakathi ukubonakala kuSeattle Opera kanye neDeutsche Staatsoper eBerlin (The Barber of Seville), Metropolitan Opera (Armida), La Scala (Italian in Algiers); I-debut edumile e-Tivoli Concert Hall e-Copenhagen enekhonsathi ye-arias bel canto; ukusebenza kwengxenye eyedwa ku-oratorio ka-Mendelssohn u-Elijah (ne-Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra).

Ulwazi oluvela kuwebhusayithi ye-Moscow Philharmonic