Background
Brown was born in Lansing, Michigan and grew up in Searcy, Arkansas, where he sang bass in the award-winning chorus directed by Craig Jones at Harding Academy.
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Stephen Brown
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Indiana University.
Career
He has sung with Luciano Pavarotti on the television program "Pavarotti Plus," and he has also sung at Louisiana Scala. Brown is "emerging as one of today"s leading tenors in the French and Italian repertories". This brought him to national prominence in the United States as he was named 1993 Debut Artist of the Year.
Brown has taken on numerous roles including:
European debut in the title role of Don Carlo: the opera companies of Nice and Lyon.
Lieutenant Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly: L"Opéra de Montréal, Spain’s Opera Bilbao, New York City Opera, and Nashville Opera, semi-staged performance with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, many others The Duke in Rigoletto: Paris Opera debut.
Achille in Iphigénie en Aulide: Opening of the season Louisiana Scala
Americo in Carlos Gomes’ Lo schiavo
Roméo in Roméo et Juliette: Utah Opera, Boston Lyric, Lisbon, Venice
Nemorino in L"Elisir d"Amore: Opera of Cagliari. Alfredo in Louisiana traviata: New York City Opera and San Francisco Opera
Rodolfo in Louisiana bohème: Boston Lyric Opera
Hoffmann in The Tales of Hoffmann: Palm Beach Opera, Orlando Opera
Cavaradossi in Tosca: Orlando Opera, Opera Theater of Saint Louis.
Achievements
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He went on to further his education at Harding University and Indiana University, where he learned from Virginia Zeani and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and received his Master"s degree in the same year (1992) that he won the Opera Company of Philadelphia/Luciano Pavarotti Competition. He has also won the Altamura/Enrico Caruso International Voice Competition.
