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Lawrence Brownlee gave an exciting and critically well-received performance with the Washington Concert Opera, in Rossini’s Donna del Lago, last year. He has also sung in the Marilyn Horne Foundation recital series, including their Gala concert.
In future seasons, Mr. Brownlee has scheduled important debuts with The Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Staatsoper, Houston Grand Opera, San Diego Opera, La Monnaie in Brussels, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Semperoper in Dresden, L'Opera Lirica in Trieste. He will sing various leading roles with the Seattle Opera for several seasons to come.
After winning the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in 2001, he went on to make his debut at La Scala in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He also won the 2003 ARIA Award and a 2003 Career Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Ad una stella
Il Tramonto
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
La Ricordanza
Torna Vezzosa Fillide
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
L’amor funesto
Me voglio fa na casa
Il sospiro
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
From The Barber of Seville
Cessa di più resistere
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
Take, O take those lips away
John Addison (1766-1844)
O mistress mine
Quilter
It as a lover and his lass
Charles Parry (1848-1918)
Farewell, thou art too dear
for my possessing
C.V. Stanford (1852-1924)
The rain, it raineth every day
Joaquin Turina (1882-1949)
Tu pupila es azul
Manuel Valls
Yo m’enamorí d’un aire
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Las Morillas de Jaén
Enrique Granados (1867-1916)
Callejeo
Valls
Durme Durme
Cristóbal Halffter (1930- )
Panxoliña
Eduardo Toldra (1895-1962)
Cançó de Grumet
Hale Smith (1925- )
This Little Light of Mine
Let Us Break Bread Together
Jesus Lay Your Head
Witness
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