RYAN BROWN

Ryan Brown is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of Opera Lafayette. Through his work with this enterprise he has become a leading figure in the revival of eighteenth-century opera. His vivid explorations of the French repertoire in particular have earned him an international reputation, receiving the highest praise from critics in the United States and abroad. These performances have highlighted the various traditions of the tragédie lyrique, the opéra-ballet, the opéra-comique, the pastorale, and the dramma-giocoso genres. Ryan Brown’s discography for Naxos includes masterpieces by well-known eighteenth-century composers as well as rediscoveries of their contemporaries.

Ryan Brown was raised in a musical family in California, and performed extensively as a violinist and chamber musician in New York and on tour before turning his attention to conducting. In 2012 he made his début with the Seattle Symphony and at the Opéra Royal in Versailles, leading Opera Lafayette in its international début with Le Roi et le fermier. In May 2012 he received La Médaille d’Or du Rayonnement Culturel from La Renaissance Française.

For more information, please visit Opera Lafayette’s website.

A Pilgrim’s Progress – Jeremy Siepmann talks to the conductor Ryan Brown

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Role: Conductor
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