Stephen Brown first started singing with
various opera companies and choirs when he was a treble. As a tenor, he studied singing at
Trinity College of Music and then with Neil Mackie in the opera school of the Royal
College of Music, supported by several prestigious awards.
His operatic rôles include Troufaldino in Prokofiev's The Love of Three Oranges;
The Mayor in Britten's Albert Herring; and several Mozart rôles - Tamino, Don
Ottavio, Ferrando and Basilio. He has worked as a principal for many companies such as
Almeida Opera, in London and Aldeburgh; Kent Opera and New Sussex Opera in the Brighton
Festival. Performances have included rôles in the French premieres of Gilbert &
Sullivan's Cox and Box and Trial by Jury in Paris; Marco in The
Gondoliers at the Buxton Festival; Don Curzio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Sir
Colin Davies; and Physignatus in The Donkey's Shadow by Richard Strauss for
English National Opera at the Covent Garden Festival. Recently, Stephen has been covering
major roles with both the Garsington Festival, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and the
Glyndebourne festival.
A prize winning interpreter of English song and German lieder, Stephen regularly gives
recitals all over Britain and even recently on the QE2. In oratorio, his repertoire ranges
from Monteverdi to Berio. Recent performances include Verdi's Requiem at the
Barbican Centre in London and in Wells Cathedral. International engagements have taken him
to Romania for a televised Messiah, to Norway in Rossini's Stabat Mater,
to Jerusalem for a performance of Stradella's San Giovanni Battista, to Spain
with a tour of Beethoven's 9th Symphony and he has taken part in concerts in India and
Austria. He regularly sings the Evangelist in Bach's Passions and recently sang the arias
in the St Matthäus Passion in Iceland and in London with Peter Schreier. It was
in the St Matthew Passion that he last joined with the Brighton Orpheus Choir in
April 2003.
