Angela Brower

Engagements this season include Sesto La clemenza di Tito and Nicklausse Les Contes d’Hoffman, both at the Staatsoper Hamburg and another double appearance at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel and as the Fox in Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. She also sings Dorabella Così fan tutte at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with Mark Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre and makes her Wigmore Hall debut together with pianist James Baillieu and a programme titled ‘A Little Night Music’.

Last season, Brower made a double appearance at the Opéra national de Paris as Nicklausse/The Muse Les Contes d’Hoffman and Dorabella Così fan tutte and a highly acclaimed role debut as Sara in a new production of Roberto Devereux by Jetske Mijnssen at the Dutch National Opera. She also sang Annio in a new production of La clemenza di Tito at the Royal Danish Theatre and returned to Staatsoper Hamburg as Adalgisa Norma and Wiener Staatsoper as Octavian Der Rosenkavalier.

Particularly associated with the works Mozart and Strauss, her signature roles include Octavian Der Rosenkavalier (Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper); Komponist Ariadne auf Naxos (Glyndebourne and Aix-en-Provence Festivals, Bayerische Staatsoper and Semperoper Dresden); Dorabella Così fan tutte (Royal Ballet & Opera, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Salzburg Festival, Dutch National Opera, Bayerische Staasoper); Annio La clemenza di Tito (Opéra de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper and Royal Ballet & Opera); Nicklausse Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg and San Francisco Opera) and Cherubino Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozartwoche Salzburg, Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Japan and Bayerische Staatsoper). Brower has made acclaimed debuts in roles such as Sifare Mitridate, Re di Ponto at Staatsoper Berlin and Susanna Le nozze di Figaro at Gran Teatre del Liceu, Bordeaux and Versailles, Prince Orlovsky Die Fledermaus at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Idamante Idomeneo at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Charlotte Werther and Adalgisa Norma, both at Bayerische Staatsoper and Tamiri Il re pastore at Lucerne Festival.

On the concert platform, she has performed works such as Mozart Davide Penitente with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester; Mozart Requiem with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada; a concert with the Aachen Symphony Orchestra which featured works by Debussy, Chausson, Ravel, and Duruflé; Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra at the Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; Fox The Cunning Little Vixen with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Alban Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder with the Tiroler Symphonie Orchester in Innsbruck; Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer Op. 19 and Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the NDR Sinfonieorchester, under the musical direction of Yal Pascal Tortilier.

Her discography includes the hugely acclaimed Deutsche Grammophon recordings of Mozart’s Così fan tutte and Le nozze di Figaro both conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Angela Brower was raised in Arizona and studied at Arizona State University and Indiana University. Her career started as a young artist singing at the Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program in 2008. She was then invited to join the Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, where she later became a member of the Ensemble from 2010-2016. Her portrayal of Dorabella in Così fan tutte earned her particular attention on the main stage of the National Theater, which led to her receiving the prestigious Munich Festival Prize in 2009.