ALEXANDER BROWN
Tenor
Alexander Brown - Click to enlarge
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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

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Past events - just small selection of concerts and performaces

Opening of Ljubljana Summer Festival - 2000

    Edward Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius

  • Gerontius - Alexander Brown (tenor)
  • Angel - Sarah Walker (mezzosoprano)
  • Priest/angel - Erin Caves (bariton)

  • Chorus
    Semichorus - Members of Maribor opera chorus
    Akademic chorus Ivan Goran Kovačić - Zagreb
    St. Catherine's Church Choir

  • RTV Symphonic Orchestra Slovenija
  • Conductor - Simon Robinson

Vatroslav Lisinski hall - Zagreb 1999


    G. Verdi - REQUIEM

  • Amelia Felle - soprano
  • Gloria Scalchi - mezzosoprano
  • Alexander Brown - tenor
  • George Emil Crasnaru - bas

    HRT Symphony Orcestra - Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orcestra
    conductor: Tiziano Severini

    HRT Choir & Academic Choir "Ivan Goran Kovačić"

 
  • Recanati (Italy) CONCERTO LIRICO-SINFONICO Pizza Giacomo Leopardi
    together with
    Elvidia Ferracuti, Enrica Guarini, Anna di Mauro, Maurizio Graziani & Mauro Augustini
  • Montecassiano (Italy) VI. CONCERTO LIRICO-SINFONICO Pizza Giacomo Leopardi
    together with
    Elvidia Ferracuti and Enrica Guarini (BIS!-Tris! for Nessun Dorma!)


 
  • Sings in concerts and television programmes in various parts of Italy, including Milan.


Moves to Italy

Participates in international singing competitions all over the Italy

  • Winner of Tenor prize in international singing competition at Cagliari, Sardinia; finalist at international competitions in Parma and Lecce, Italy.

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during singing competition

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Italian Embassy, Amsterdam
La Traviata - Brindisi

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Italian Embassy, Amsterdam
with Carol Barlow-Davies

 
  • Joseph Haydn DIE SIEBEN LETZTEN WORTE UNSERES ERLÖSERS AM KREUCE Concert at Stadsschouwburg Heerlen, Holland
  • Benjamin Britten PETER GRIMES Alexander Magri - Advocate (DNO)

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Recital at the Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam
with
Carol Barlow-Davies


 
  • Richard Wagner LOHENGRIN Alexander Magri - Edlen (DNO)

Joins Dutch National Opera (DNO)


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YEVGENIJ ONJEGIN

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Verdi - LA TRAVIATA
Alexander Magri - Alfredo
Bronwen Mills - Violetta
with Kentish Opera Group in

Bromley, London


 
  • Nov. Chelmsford Opera Group Tenth Anniversary Gala Concert with Elizabeth Harwood
  • Ludwig van Beethoven FIDELIO (ENO) at The London Coliseum
  • Bizet - CARMEN (Don José), Chelmsford Opera (England)
  • World premiére of Iain Hamilton's ANNA KARENINA (ENO) at The London Coliseum
 
  • Franz Lehar - THE MARRY WIDOW - Alexander Magri - Kromov (ENO)
  • Richard Strauss - ARABELLA (ENO)
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Thameside Opera:

LA BOHEME
Alexander Brown - Rodolfo
John Riley Schofield - Marcello
Bronwen Mills - Musetta
Jean Trevelyan - Mimi
  • Thameside Opera Productions Concert
    • One critic said: "I was concerned to learn that the duet from "The Pearl Fishers" was to be performed. It is one of my favourite pieces of music and, therefore, I feel rather protective towards it.
      I need not have worried. Alex Magri and John Riley-Schofield sang the parts of Nadir and Zurga Outstandingly well and with great sensitivity."
 
  • G. Verdi's UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (singing Riccardo), Chelmsford Opera (England)

Joins English National Opera

  • Boïeldieu - LA DAME BLANCHE (singing the leading tenor role of George Brown), Hammersmith Municipal Opera (London)
 
  • Wigmore Hall (London) recital - An Operatic Soirée - Stage name - Alexander Magri
  • British première of Dominick Argento's POSTCARD FROM MOROCCO
    with The Contemporary Opera Company at New Theatre in King's College London
  • Bizet - CARMEN (Don José), Holland Park Festival (London)
 
  • W. A. Mozart THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at Great Hall of Campbell College, Belfast
    Alexander Brown - Don Basilio & Don Curzio

Graduates in Singing at RMCM

  • Awarded The Imperial League of Opera Prize by Royal Manchester College of Music
  • Joseph Haydn's SALVE REGINA: Concert at Whitworth Hall, University of Manchester, England (with Sandra Browne).
 


Bedrich Smetana's
THE BARTERED BRIDE
Alexander Brown - Jenik
Pauline Chadwick - Marenka
York City Opera Group (England)

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Graduates in Harpsichord at RMCM

Studies at Royal Manchester College of Music (England)

  • Brown's voice is 'discovered', and the RMCM offers him a bursary for another three years to study singing
  • Violin and Composition as joint Second Studies
  • Starts his studies with Harpsichord

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