Lisa Harper Brown

Soprano

Born, UK. Studied with Janice Chapman and David Harper. Honours, University of WA. First prize, vocal section ABC's Young Performer Award, 1992, winner: 1993 Gosford City National Aria Competition and Australian Singing Competition's Faigen Award, enabling study at the Britten-Pears School. Winner: Royal Overseas League bursary. WA Opera's Young Artists’ Program

OA repertoire

First Lady: Oz Opera's Magic Flute, Siren: Rinaldo, Pamina: Magic Flute, Helena: Midsummer Night's Dream, Fiordiligi: Così fan tutte, Elsa: Lohengrin, Countess Almaviva: Le nozze di Figaro, Echo: Ariadne auf Naxos, Diana: Orpheus in the Underworld, Art Dealer: Lulu

Other Companies

Frasquita: Carmen, Annina: La traviata, Venus: Orpheus in the Underworld, First Lady, title role: Alcina, Rosalinde: Fledermaus (WAO); Musetta: La bohème (Opera Queensland); Ortlinde: Die Walküre (SOSA); First Lady (Hamburg State Opera). Concerts include Carmina Burana (WASO); Gorecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (UWA); Die Walküre, Symphony Under the Stars (SSO); Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (MSO)

Recordings

Ortlinde: Die Walküre (SOSA/Melba Recordings)