Reviews
“…Lindsay Kate Brown had little stage time, but when she did, she shone…Ms. Brown’s generous dramatic mezzo was throbbing with vitality.”
-Opera Today
“dramatic Mezzo soprano…Lindsay Kate brown’s voice is complex in terms of texture and color, which she displayed in a tour-de-force performance of Leonor’s poignant ‘O mon Fernand’ from Donizetti’s La Favorite”
-Rick Perdian
Seen and Heard Int.
...STRAUSS CREATED A COMPLEX DOUBLE SELF-PORTRAIT IN THE OPERA, CONTRASTING THE SEASONED MUSIC MASTER...WITH HIS PUPIL, THE IDEALISTIC COMPOSER. THE LATTER, SUNG WITH PUISSANT VERVE BY MEZZO-SOPRANO LINDSAY KATE BROWN..
-Charles T. Downey
Washington Classical
“...Mezzo-soprano Lindsay Kate Brown also delivered a strong performance; her vibrant, lovely voice was thoroughly engaging in a pants role as the Composer...”
-Opera Gene
“...Lindsay Kate Brown sang the highly melodramatic role of the Composer with comic timing and true feeling...
--Callie Cooper
Schmopera
“As the nurse, mezzo Lindsay Kate Brown was a standout. Her tone is lustrous, warm and deep…a rock-solid reminder that this voice could one day, perhaps, sing an Amneris or, dare I say it?, an Azucena…”
-Tony Villecco
Broome County Arts
“More mature mezzo Lindsay Kate Brown…as the queen of the Amazons added mythological weight to this light and airy midsummer dream”
-Broadway World
“…a current Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist, Brown possesses a uniquely dark timbre…she has great control over her large instrument, which was showcased no finer than in “Sgombra è la sacra selva” from Bellini’s “Norma.” The aria, vulnerable and exposed, is hard to pull off as a young singer. But along with a striking instrument, she’s also a committed actress. Her second aria “Da, chas nastal!” from Tchaikovsky’s “The Maid of Orleans” may have been slightly overindulgent, but boring she is not…”
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-Arya Roshanian
Operawire
“…The third mainstay of the cast was Lindsay Kate Brown as a wonderful, warm Composer, the young creator of the opera who in the first act despairs at seeing his work (yes, his: the role is a pants role, meaning a male character sung by a woman) and artistic vision threatened by the patron’s whim. At her best, Brown offered not only luminous full singing, but also a sense of the character, communicating the quick changes of mood from despair to feverish excitement at coming up with a new tune, so clearly that you could hear and share her reaction…”
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-Anne Midgette
The Washington Post
“…the harried Composer, a role performed with vocal and theatrical ardor by Lindsay Kate Brown. The mezzo’s bright, ample voice and wonderfully animated phrasing yielded great charm in the passage where the Composer expounds on a sudden melodic inspiration, and affecting intensity in the “heilige Kunst” paean…”
-Tim Smith
Opera News