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Ryan Brown is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of Opera Lafayette. Through his work with Opera Lafayette, Mr. Brown has become a leading figure in the revival of baroque opera in America. His vivid explorations of 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.
Mr Brown’s discography for Naxos includes masterpieces by well known 18th-century composers as well as discoveries of their contemporaries, (Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice, Sacchini’s Oedipe à Colone, Rameau’s Operatic Airs and Dances and Rebel and Francœur’s Zélindor, roi des Sylphes), works which exemplify traditions in the 17th-century (Lully’s Armide), and those which point the way toward the music of the 19thcentury (Monsigny’s Le Déserteur). His recent performances with Opera Lafayette of Gluck’s Armide at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and Lincoln Center in New York were sold out and universally lauded.
Mr 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 attentions to conducting. He lives in Washington D.C. and Southwestern Colorado.
For more information, please visit Opera Lafayette’s website.
A Pilgrim’s Progress – Jeremy Siepmann talks to the conductor Ryan Brown