sopranoRenowned for the floating golden-hued quality of her voice, celebrated Canadian soprano Donna Brown performs on the world’s great opera and concert stages with such distinguished conductors as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kurt Masur, Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, William Christie, Pinchas Zukerman, and Trevor Pinnock.
Ms. Brown has received critical acclaim for her many operatic roles, ranging from Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) to Gilda (Rigoletto) to Chimène in the world premiere creation of Debussy’s unfinished opera Rodrigue et Chimène for the opening of the renovated Opera de Lyon.
Recitals have always been of major importance to her, and she has sung in over a hundred recitals with such pianists as Michel Dalberto, Maria Joao Pires, Roger Vignolles, Alain Planes, Stephane Lemelin, Philippe Bianconi.
In May 2005, France Musique recorded a special program on Donna Brown which included a live performance with Philippe Cassard at the piano.
Ms. Brown is proud to have taken part in several world première recordings, such as Requiem der Versöhnung with Helmuth Rilling, Fanny Mendelssohn Lieder with pianist Francoise Tillard, and Gitanjali for soprano and orchestra, written for Donna Brown by R. Murray Schafer, with Mario Bernardi conducting.
Donna Brown has been filmed for television in France, England, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Canada, and Japan.
