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Lawrence Brownlee

O Lawrence Brownlee o se tasi o pese e sili ona lauiloa ma sili ona sailia i le taimi nei. O tagata lautele ma le au faitio latou te matauina le matagofie ma le mama o lona leo, faʻapitoa faʻapitoa, lea e mafai ai e ia ona faia vaega sili ona faigata o le tenor repertoire o taumafaiga e aunoa ma se taumafaiga vaaia, tusiata musuia.

Na fanau le tagata pese i le 1972 i Youngstown (Ohio). Na ia mauaina se faailoga o le Bachelor of Arts mai le Anderson University (South Carolina) ma le Master of Music degree mai le Iunivesite o Indiana. I le 2001 na ia manumalo ai i le Tauvaga Vocal a le Atunuu na faia e le Metropolitan Opera. Na maua le tele o fa'ailoga iloga, fa'ailoga, fa'ailoga ma foa'i (2003 – Richard Tucker Foundation Grant; 2006 – Marion Anderson ma Richard Tucker Prizes; 2007 – Philadelphia Opera Prize for Artistic Excellence; 2008 – Seattle Opera Artist of the Year title).

Na faia e Brownlee lana tulaga faapolofesa muamua i le 2002 i le Virginia Opera, lea na ia usuina ai Count Almaviva i le Rossini's The Barber of Seville. I le tausaga lava lea na amata ai lana galuega Europa - o se amataga i Milan's La Scala i le vaega lava e tasi (lea na ia faia mulimuli ane i Vienna, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Baden-Baden, Hamburg, Tokyo, Niu Ioka, San-Diego ma Boston).

O le lisi o le pese pese e aofia ai le taʻitaʻia o taʻaloga a Rossini (The Barber of Seville, The Italian Girl in Algeria, Cinderella, Moses in Egypt, Armida, The Count of Ori, The Lady of the Lake, The Turk in Italy) , "Otello", "Semiramide", "Tancred", "Malaga i Reims", "The Thieving Magpie"), Bellini ("Puritans", "Somnambulist", "Pirate"), Donizetti ("Love Potion", "Don Pasquale", Afafine o le Regiment"), Handel ("Atis ma Galatea", "Rinaldo", "Semela"), Mozart ("Don Giovanni", "Magic Flute", "O le mea lena e fai e tagata uma", "O le Aveesea mai le Seraglio"), Salieri (Axur, King Ormuz), Myra (Medea i Korinito), Verdi (Falstaff), Gershwin (Porgy ma Bess), Britten (Albert Herring, The Turn of the Screw), tala faʻaonaponei a L. Maazel ("1984", lalolagi muamua i Vienna), D. Katana (“Florencia i le Amazon”).

O Lawrence Brownlee na te faia ni matafaioi taua i cantata-oratorio galuega a Bach (John Passion, Matthew Passion, Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat), Handel (Messiah, Judas Maccabee, Saulo, Isaraelu i Aikupito"), Haydn ("The Four Seasons", "Creation o le Lalolagi”, “Nelson Mass”), Mozart (Requiem, “Great Mass”, “Coronation Mass”), mases of Beethoven (C major), Schubert, oratorios Mendelssohn (“Paul”, “Elijah”), Rossini's Stabat Mater, Stabat Mater ma Dvorak's Requiem, Orff's Carmina Burana, Britten's compositions, etc.

O le potu pese a le tagata pese e aofia ai pese a Schubert, konseti arias ma canzones e Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi.

I le amataina o lana galuega i luga o le US opera stages, na vave ona maua e Brownlee le lauiloa i le lalolagi atoa. Na patipatia o ia e fale faafiafia ma fale faafiafia i Niu Ioka, Uosigitone, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles; Roma ma Milan, Paris ma Lonetona, Zurich ma Vienna, Toulouse ma Lausanne, Perelini ma Dresden, Hamburg ma Munich, Madrid ma Brussels, Tokyo ma Puerto Rico… Na auai le tusiata i tausamiga tetele (e aofia ai Rossini tausamiga i Pesaro ma Bad -Wildbade) .

O faʻasalalauga lautele a le pese pese e aofia ai le Barber of Seville, The Italian in Algeria, Cinderella (DVD), Armida (DVD), Rossini's Stabat Mater, Mayr's Medea in Corinth, Maazel's 1984 (DVD), Carmina Burana Orff (CD ma DVD), " Pese Italia", lipine o fatuga o potu e Rossini ma Donizetti. I le 2009, Laurence Brownlee, faatasi ai ma fetu o le tala faamusika lalolagi, le aufaipese ma le aufaaili o le Berlin Deutsche Oper i lalo o Andrei Yurkevich, sa auai i le pueina o le Opera Gala Concert na faatulagaina e le AIDS Foundation. Ole tele o fa'amaumauga na faia ile fa'ailoga EMI Classics. O loʻo galulue faʻatasi foi le tagata pese ma Opera Rara, Naxos, Sony, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Virgin Classics.

Faatasi ai ma lana laasaga ma le pueina o paaga o Anna Netrebko, Elina Garancha, Joyce Di Donato, Simone Kermes, René Fleming, Jennifer Larmor, Nathan Gunn, ta piano Martin Katz, Malcolm Martineau, taitai Sir Simon Rattle, Lorin Maazel, Antonio Pappano, Alberto Zedda ma le tele o isi fetu, le Philharmonic Orchestras o Berlin ma Niu Ioka, le Munich Radio Orchestras, le Santa Cecilia Academy…

I le vaitau o le 2010-2011, na faia ai e Lawrence Brownlee lona amataga i fale mataaga e tolu i le taimi e tasi: Opéra National de Paris ma Opéra de Lausanne (Lindor i The Italian Girl in Algiers), faapea foi i le Canadian Opera (Prince Ramiro i Cinderella). Na ia usu muamua le matafaioi a Elvino i La Sonnambula i le St. Gallen (Switzerland). E le gata i lea, o faʻauiga a le pese pese i le vaitau na teʻa na aofia ai faʻaaliga i le Seattle Opera ma le Deutsche Staatsoper i Perelini (The Barber of Seville), Metropolitan Opera (Armida), La Scala (Italian i Algiers); amataga i le Tivoli Concert Hall lauiloa i Copenhagen ma se konaseti arias bel canto; faatinoga o le vaega solo i le oratorio Elia a Mendelssohn (faatasi ai ma le Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra).

Faʻamatalaga mai le upega tafaʻilagi a le Moscow Philharmonic