Biography
Eudora Brown made her professional debut on short notice as Beatrice in Santa Fe Opera’s production of Beatrice and Benedict, assuming the role at the dress rehearsal and performing the entire run to critical acclaim. Since that time, she appeared with The Dallas Opera as the Page in Salome and as Nicklausse in Les Contes d ‘Hoffman, Boston Baroque as Narciso and Giunone in Agrippina, Boston Chamber Music Society to sing Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, and Hudson Valley Singers for Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for whom she previously appeared as a featured soloist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, Boston Lyric Opera as Zulma in L’Italiana in Algeri, Chicago Opera Theater as Maria Cleofe in Handel’s La Resurrezione under the direction of Jane Glover, Washington Concert Opera as Isaura in Il Giuramento, Concert Artists of Baltimore as Mezzo-Soprano Soloist in Requiem by Verdi, and the Cathedral Choral Society for the Mass by Paul Paray..
Ms. Brown holds a Master of Music degree in voice from the Manhattan School of Music (MSM), and a Bachelor of Music degree in voice from the USC Thornton School of Music. While at MSM, she performed the roles of Dorabella, Cherubino, the title role in Handel’s Solomon, and Othniel in Handel’s Joshua. She also created the role of Barbara in the New York premi_re of Robert Ward’s Roman Fever. With the MSM Contemporary Ensemble, she performed Ancient Voices of Children by George Crumb in whose master class she participated. Her roles at USC include the mezzo-soprano roles in Postcard from Morocco and Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring.
In 2003, Ms. Brown appeared as Carmen, Dorabella, Prince Orlofsky, Octavian, and Maddalena, in opera excerpts performed in Orvieto’s Teatro Mancinelli and Pallazzo dei Sette, and in Porto Ercole. These performances were televised by RAI.
A member of the Phyllis Curtin Seminar at the Tanglewood Music Center in 1998, Ms. Brown performed the alto solo in Bach’s Cantata No. 45 under the direction of Seiji Ozawa. She was then invited to return as a Vocal Fellow in 2001 and 2002. Her most recent Tanglewood performances include Saariaho’s Chateau de L’Ame with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Robert Spano, and the role of Ph_drus in Satie’s Socrate, broadcast live across the United States. In 2001, she performed the roles of The Cat and The Squirrel in Ravel’s L’Enfant et Les Sortileges, also with Maestro Spano. Her Tanglewood triumph was the U.S. premi_re of Jo Kondo’s opera, Hagoromo, written in Japanese for mezzo-soprano soloist, narrator, dancer and orchestra, for which she received rave reviews.