BROWN, RYAN Ryan Brown is the founder, conductor and artistic director of Opera Lafayette. His vivid interpretations of baroque and classical opera, and the French repertoire in particular, have received the highest praise from critics in the United States and abroad. In addition to his work with Opera Lafayette he has conducted Italian, German, and English repertoire with other companies, leading performances of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia and Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto with the University of Maryland’s Opera Studio, Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Sonoma Opera, Handel’s Acis and Galatea with the Redwoods Festival, and assisting with productions of Bizet’s Carmen and Verdi’s Il trovatore with the Baltimore Opera while studying conducting with the eminent Gustav Meier at the Peabody Institute.
His educational endeavours with Opera Lafayette have included creating seminars on French opera for the Smithsonian Institution and giving lectures on style and opera for other organizations, as well as preparing editions of eighteenth-century operas for performance and publication. He has also been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Ryan Brown was raised in a musical family in California, and attended Oberlin College, the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and the Juilliard School, where his principal violin studies were with Dorothy Delay. Before turning his attention to conducting, he toured the United States, Europe, and Japan as a chamber musician and with the Four Nations Ensemble.
The Washington Post noted that he conducts “with authority, dramatic intensity and welling musicianship,” and his exploration of rarely performed 18th century operas and recordings with Naxos have received rave notices from England’s Opera Now, America’s Fanfare, and Germany’s Das Opernglas.
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