Major
roles:

Radames (Aida)
Otello (Otello)
Cavaradossi (Tosca)
Manrico (Il Trovatore)
Calaf (Turandot)
Dick (La Fanciulla del Ouest)
Peter (Peter Grimes)

Alfredo (La Traviata)
Don Jose (Carmen)
Andrea (Andrea Chénier)
Alvaro (Forza del Destino)
Turridù (Cavalleria rusticana)
Lohengrin (Lohengrin)
Tannhaüser (Tannhaüser)

Education:

Royal Manchester College of Music
Graduate diplomas for:
Harpsichord (cembalo) and Singing
Violin and Composition as second studies

Member of Institute of linguists
Fluent in Italian, French and Dutch (native language English);
good working knowledge of German

Curriculum vitæ

The British tenor Alexander Brown was born in Egypt and studied the harpsichord (cembalo) and baroque music (with composition as joint first study and violin as his second instrument) at the Royal Manchester College of Music (England), where he also played continuo for and conducted the College chamber orchestra.

After gaining the Graduate Diploma for harpsichord, the RMCM offered him a bursary for another three years to study singing, after which he was again awarded the Graduate Diploma. As a student he was awarded the Imperial League of Opera Prize.

He went on to become a prizewinner in the international singing competition at Cagliari, Sardinia (1986), as well as being a finalist (Parma and Lecce) and semi-finalist (Enna (Sicily) and Sirmione) in other competitions in Italy (1986-7).

His career initially followed two paths - concerts of baroque music and opera. He has performed in (vocal) recitals at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, with Scottish Opera, English National Opera, in the Wexford and Aldeburgh festivals, with the Dutch National Opera, and in various parts of Italy (including television appearances in Milan and Rome), where he lived for several years.

His earlier career was in the lyric repertoire, with roles such as George Brown (La Dame Blanche)/Holland Park Festival (London), Wilhelm Meister (Mignon)/Ijmuiden (Holland) (1984), Alfredo (La Traviata)/Bromley Theatre (London) (1982) and Rodolfo (La Bohème)/Surbiton (London). Then came Cavaradossi (Tosca), Radames (Aida) and Manrico (Trovatore) in provincial theatres in Italy (1987-90), Don José (Carmen) and Riccardo (Ballo in Maschera) at the Chelmsford and Holland Park (England) Festivals. Concert work includes oratorios such as Handel's Samson and Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius (Ljubljana Festival, 2000), Verdi's Requiem (Zagreb, 1999).

Last updated October, 2001.