“BROWN POSSESSES A UNIQUELY DARK TIMBRE…SHE HAS GREAT CONTROL OVER HER LARGE INSTRUMENT…BUT ALONG WITH A STRIKING INSTRUMENT, SHE’S ALSO A COMMITTED ACTRESS…BORING SHE IS NOT…”
Praised for her "...lustrous, warm and deep [sound]..." Lindsay Kate Brown, is quickly making her mark in the world of opera. This season, Lindsay performs a recital for the George London Foundation, featuring works of Berg, Higdon, Marx, and others, in the historic Morgan Library in New York City. Lindsay makes her return to The Dallas Opera in Sir David McVicar’s Elektra as both the Third Maidservant and the cover of Klytänestra. Lindsay will also join the Hart Institute for Women Conductors in their Showcase Concert, singing excepts from Vanessa and The Consul.
Fo her 2022-2023 season, Lindsay started her season with the New Choral Society in Westchester, New York as the Alto Soloist is Mozart’s Requiem. Lindsay then made her conducting debut with Syracuse Opera and Tri-Cities Opera, performing Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors. In February 2023, Lindsay made her debut with The Dallas Opera as Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold in a new and innovative production directed by Tomer Zvulun. Finishing her season, Lindsay made her debut as the Alto Soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the Southern Florida Master Chorale in April 2023.
Other recent credits include contracts with The Metropolitan Opera to cover both The Inkeeper in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov with Maestro Sebastian Weigle, Big Stone in Aucoin’s contemporary opera Eurydice with Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Marcellina in the famous Richard Eyre production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, the covers of Minkswoman, The Stewardess, and Older Woman in Dove’s Flight with The Dallas Opera, and her Santa Fe Opera debut singing the roles of Hippolyta in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream conducted by Maestro Harry Bicket and Marcellina in Laurent Pelly’s new production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.
A recent graduate of the studio at Houston Grand Opera, Lindsay made her HGO debut in 2019 as Giovanna in Tomer Zvulun’s production of Verdi’s Rigoletto and subsequently portrayed the roles of Gertrude in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Sister Berthe in My Favorite Things: Songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. As part of her duties in the studio, Lindsay has also studied the demanding roles of Léonor in Donizetti’s La Favorite, Charlotte in Massenet’s Werther, Herodias in Strauss’ Salome, and Kundry in Wagner’s Parsifal.
Lindsay is represented by Adam Cavagnaro of Promethean Artists.
Photo Courtesy of Elizabeth Hoard
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Lindsay sings Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder as part of Houston Grand Opera’s Recital Series. March 2021.
Piano: Alex Munger
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Lindsay performs as Wellgunde in Wagner’s Das Rheingold with The Dallas Opera.
“DYNAMIC, DRAMATIC MEZZO-SOPRANO, LINDSAY KATE BROWN...[A] VOICE COMPLEX IN TERMS OF TEXTURE AND COLOR, WHICH SHE DEPLOYED IN A TOUR-DE-FORCE PERFORMANCE OF LÉONOR’S POIGNANT ‘O MON FERNAND’ FROM DONIZETTI’S LA FAVORITE...
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