Lawrence Brownlee |

Lawrence Brownlee

Ko Lawrence Brownlee tetahi o nga tino rongonui, e tino rapuhia ana i enei ra. Ko te iwi whanui me nga kaititiro e kite ana i te ataahua me te ngawari o tona reo, te tino hangarau, e taea ai e ia te mahi i nga waahanga tino uaua o te repertoire tenor o nga mahi kaore he kaha e kitea ana, he toi whakaawe.

I whanau te kaiwaiata i te tau 1972 i Youngstown (Ohio). I whiwhi ia i te Tohu Paetahi mo nga Toi mai i te Whare Wananga o Anderson (South Carolina) me te Tohu Paerua mo te Waiata mai i te Whare Wananga o Indiana. I te tau 2001 i toa ia i te Whakataetae Waiata a-Motu i whakahaerehia e te Metropolitan Opera. He maha nga tohu, taonga, taonga me nga karaati (2003 – Richard Tucker Foundation Grant; 2006 – Marion Anderson and Richard Tucker Prizes; 2007 – Philadelphia Opera Prize for Artistic Excellence; 2008 – Seattle Opera Artist of the Year taitara).

I mahi tuatahi a Brownlee i tana atamira ngaio i te tau 2002 i te Virginia Opera, i reira i waiatatia e ia a Count Almaviva i te waiata a Rossini's The Barber of Seville. I taua tau ano, ka timata tana mahi Pakeha – he tuatahitanga ki Milan's La Scala i taua wahanga ano (i muri mai ka mahi ia i Vienna, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, Tokyo, New York, San -Diego me Boston).

Kei roto i te repertoire a te kaiwaiata nga mahi rangatira i roto i nga opera a Rossini (The Barber of Seville, The Italian Girl in Algeria, Cinderella, Moses in Egypt, Armida, The Count of Ori, The Lady of the Lake, The Turk in Italy) , "Otello", "Semiramide", "Tancred", "Journey to Reims", "The Thieving Magpie"), Bellini ("Puritans", "Somnambulist", "Pirate"), Donizetti ("Love Potion", "Don Pasquale", Tamahine a te Regiment"), Handel ("Atis and Galatea", "Rinaldo", "Semela"), Mozart ("Don Giovanni", "Magic Flute", "Koinei te mahi a nga tangata katoa", "Ko te Abduction from the Seraglio"), Salieri (Axur, King Ormuz), Myra (Medea in Corinth), Verdi (Falstaff), Gershwin (Porgy and Bess), Britten (Albert Herring, The Turn of the Screw), operas contemporary by L. Maazel (“1984”, te tuatahi o te ao i Vienna), D. Katana ("Florencia i te Amazon").

Lawrence Brownlee performs tenor roles in cantata-oratorio works by Bach (John Passion, Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat), Handel (Meshia, Judas Maccabee, Saul, Israel in Egypt”), Haydn (“The Four Seasons”, “Creation o te Ao”, “Nelson Mass”), Mozart (Requiem, “Great Mass”, “Coronation Mass”), tini o Beethoven (C major), Schubert, oratorios Mendelssohn (“Paul”, “Elijah”), Rossini's Stabat Mater, Stabat Mater me Dvorak's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Britten's tito, etc.

Kei roto i te repertoire ruma o te kaiwaiata nga waiata na Schubert, nga konohete arias me nga canzones na Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi.

I te tiimata o tana mahi i runga i nga whakaaturanga opera o Amerika, ka tere te rongonui o Brownlee ki te ao katoa. I pakipaki ia e nga whare tapere me nga whare konohete i New York, Washington, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles; Ko Roma me Milan, Paris me Raanana, Zurich me Vienna, Toulouse me Lausanne, Berlin me Dresden, Hamburg me Munich, Madrid me Brussels, Tokyo me Puerto Rico… I uru te kaitoi ki nga huihuinga nui (tae atu ki nga huihuinga Rossini i Pesaro me Bad -Wildbade) .

Ko nga whakaahua whanui a te kaiwaiata ko te Barber of Seville, Te Itari i Algeria, Cinderella (DVD), Armida (DVD), Rossini's Stabat Mater, Mayr's Medea i Koriniti, Maazel's 1984 (DVD), Carmina Burana Orff (CD me DVD), " Nga Waiata Itari”, nga rekoata o nga titonga ruma na Rossini raua ko Donizetti. I te tau 2009, ko Laurence Brownlee, me nga whetu o te ao opera, te kaiwaiata me te orchestra o te Berlin Deutsche Oper i raro i a Andrei Yurkevich, i uru ki te rekoata o te Opera Gala Concert i whakaritea e te AIDS Foundation. Ko te nuinga o nga rekoata i mahia i runga i te tapanga EMI Classics. Ka mahi tahi ano te kaiwaiata me Opera Rara, Naxos, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Virgin Classics.

Ko Anna Netrebko, ko Elina Garancha, ko Joyce Di Donato, ko Simone Kermes, ko René Fleming, ko Jennifer Larmor, ko Nathan Gunn, ko Martin Katz, ko Malcolm Martineau, ko Sir Simon Rattle, ko Lorin Maazel, ko Antonio Pappano, ko Alberto Zedda me etahi o ana hoa mahi rekoata. he maha atu nga whetu, nga Philharmonic Orchestras o Berlin me New York, te Munich Radio Orchestras, te Santa Cecilia Academy…

I te tau 2010-2011, ka timata a Lawrence Brownlee ki roto i nga whare tapere e toru i te wa kotahi: Opéra National de Paris me Opéra de Lausanne (Lindor i The Italian Girl in Algiers), me te Canadian Opera (Prince Ramiro i Cinderella). I waiata tuatahi ia i te mahi a Elvino i La Sonnambula i St. Gallen (Switzerland). I tua atu, ko nga mahi a te kaiwaiata i tera tau ko nga whakaaturanga i te Seattle Opera me te Deutsche Staatsoper i Berlin (The Barber of Seville), Metropolitan Opera (Armida), La Scala (Itari i Algiers); tuatahi i te Tivoli Concert Hall rongonui i Copenhagen me te konohete arias bel canto; te whakaaturanga o te wahanga takitahi i roto i te oratorio a Mendelssohn a Iraia (me te Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra).

Ko nga korero mai i te paetukutuku o te Moscow Philharmonic