Susan Elizabeth Brown

3^rd Prize Winner
2019 Brian Law Opera Competition

Biography prepared and submitted by Susan Elizabeth Brown shortly after her win at the 14^th Brian Law Opera Competition, held .

Susan Elizabeth Brown, soprano

Susan Elizabeth Brown has been evolving as an artist in the National Capital Region since 2015, where she has appeared in such roles as Adina (L’elisir d’amore/Donizetti), Gilda (Rigoletto/Verdi), Mimi (La bohème/Puccini), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier/Strauss), and Cunegonde (Candide/Bernstein). She appeared as Donna Anna (Don Giovanni/Mozart) in the Festival d’opéra de Québec and on tour in Eastern Canada with Jeunesses Musicales Canada. Other roles have included Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni/Mozart) and La Princesse (L’enfant et les sortilèges/Ravel). She is the soprano alumna of the world-renowned National Arts Centre Young Artists Program, participating in both 2017 and 2018. Internationally, she has performed in concert at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Highlights of her work as a concert soloist include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Magnificat, Handel’s Psalm 112: Laudate pueri Dominum for soprano, choir and orchestra, Handel’s Messiah, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Fauré’s Requiem, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Dixit Dominus, and the world premiere of Clarence Lucas’s Dies Irae. She is newly based in Montreal.