Stephen Mark Brown

Stephen Mark Brown is an internationally known opera singer. He has sung with Luciano Pavarotti on the television program "Pavarotti and Friends" and he has also sung at La Scala. According to one [http://www.wfpl.org/otc_archive_march122005.htm source] , Brown is "emerging as one of today’s leading tenors in the French and Italian repertories."

Stephen Mark 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. 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. This brought him to national prominence in the U.S. as he was named 1993 Debut Artist of the Year. He has also won the Altamura/Enrico Caruso International Voice Competition.

Roles

Stephen Mark Brown has taken on numerous roles:
* European debut in the title role of Don Carlo: the opera companies of Nice and Lyon.
* Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly: L’Opéra de Montréal, Spain’s Opera Bilbao, New York City Opera, and Nashville Opera.
* The Duke in Rigoletto: Paris Opera debut.
* Americo in Carlos Gomes’ Roméo et Juliette:
* Nemorino in L’Elisir d’Amore: Opera of Cagliari.
* Alfredo in La traviata: New York City Opera and San Francisco Opera
* Rodolfo in La bohème: Boston Lyric Opera

References

* http://poll.imdb.com/name/nm1193953/filmotype
* http://www.wfpl.org/otc_archive_march122005.htm
* http://www.altocanto.org/2001Winners.asp
* http://www.pbs.org/lflc/91-95.htm
* http://hungarian.imdb.com/name/nm1193953/
* http://www-tech.mit.edu/V122/N26/boheme.26a.html

Rothstein, Edward. "City Opera Review; Violetta And Alfredo In Their Old Clothes." New York Times. March 18, 1995.