Stephen Anthony Brown - Director

Stephen studied at Trinity College, London and then at the Royal College of Music. His career as a tenor has led to engagements with most of the main UK companies including English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Almeida Opera, Carl Rosa Opera, Opera Della Luna, Buxton Festival and Glyndebourne and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

For Glyndebourne he has sung Pedro (Betrothal in a Monastery), Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw), Lysander (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Remenado (Carmen), Triquet (Eugene Onegin). Other appearances include Belmonte (Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Opera de Baugè), Elder Hayes (Susanna for English Touring Opera), Gamekeeper (Rusalka) and Spoletta (Tosca) for Lyric Opera Dublin, Dick in Mascagni’s 'Guglielmo', Ratcliff (Wexford International Festival), Gabriel with Alison Balsom and Trevor Pinnock at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and Character Roles in Tansy Davies’s 'Between Worlds' for English National Opera.

Stephen has sung the ‘Evangelist’ in Bach’s Johannes Passion with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and The London Mozart Players, Geronius in Exeter and Canterbury Cathedrals, Verdi’s Requiem at the Barbican, Handel's Messiah in Romania, Rossini's Stabat Mater in Norway, Stradella's San Giovanni Battista in Jerusalem, Beethoven's 9th Symphony in Spain and Bach's Matthäus Passion in Iceland and in London with Peter Schreier.

A professional orchestrator and conductor Stephen is principal conductor of The Rosenau Sinfonia (with whom he had the delight of conducting the entire Ring Cycle of Wagner in 2021), The Allegri Singers and The Sussex Chorus. He is also in much demand as a stage director and is Artistic Director of Kentish Opera and Opera in Oborne.

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