Biography

Originally drawn to singing through traditional Scottish
and American songs, mezzo-soprano AddieRose Brown brings
the heartfelt authenticity of folk music to the operatic and art
song repertoire. This season she appears as Berta in Penn
Square Opera’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, performs in Teatro
Nuovo’s celebration of Maria Callas’ 100th birthday at El Museo del Barrio in NYC, makes a return appearance with The Octavo Singers & Orchestra as the alto soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and joins Marshall Opera at Lincoln Center for their second Oral History Project concert. AddieRose continues her work with Teatro Nuovo as a Resident Artist in the company’s summer 2024 season, covering Romeo in I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, and singing in the chorus of the modern premiere of Anna di Resburgo.

AddieRose’s recent operatic appearances include making her her Mexican debut as Zerlina (Don Giovanni, Teatro Ángela Peralta/Vincerò Academy) and her role debut as Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande, dell’Arte Opera Ensemble), as well as joining the chorus of dell’Arte’s East coast première of Carla Lucero’s Juana. She has performed at Carnegie Hall in Vincerò Academy’s first two annual galas of operatic repertoire. On the concert stage she sang in the world premiere of Clarice Jensen’s The Exaltation of Inanna with ACME at The Morgan Library, and covered Nellie in New Philharmonic’s “Broadway in Concert” production of South Pacific. AddieRose made her final soprano appearances as the soloist in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem with The Octavo Singers & Orchestra, and in her return to Downtown Music at Grace for a concert featuring excerpts from the Cantatas of Bach, Telemann, and Hoffman.

AddieRose won first prize at Sparks and Wiry Cries 7th annual NYC songSLAM in collaboration with pianist & composer Maria Thompson Corley, and took First Prize and Audience Favorite Award in Sinfonietta Bel Canto’s 2022 Voice Competition.

A profound desire to create purposeful and productive avenues of poetic communication with audiences has led AddieRose to curate and produce numerous programs of art song over the years. In the spring of 2022 she returned to her hometown of Lancaster, PA to collaborate with Maria Thompson Corley on a program entitled “Call out your name”, which featured settings of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poetry by living composers, and other repertoire with strong proclamations of selfhood kin to Millay’s. Other recent recital programs include“Home is when the heart sings”, presented as part of dell’Arte’s summer 2022 festival, and “A Celebration of American Art Song”, including music of Eve Beglarian and the world premiere of two songs by Maria Thompson Corley, presented by Downtown Music at Grace, in Westchester, NY. A pre-pandemic program “I am a smiling a woman…” was debuted at the Jule Colins Smith Museum of Fine Art in Auburn, AL. Centered around Lera Auerbach’s Songs of No Return the program of “I am a smiling woman…” is inspired by the life and works of Sylvia Plath, and explores depression, suicide, and loss. A subsequent rendition of the program was given at the beginning of March 2020 for the Saint Anne Salon Series’ inaugural season.

AddieRose holds a Master's degree from The Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and a Bachelor's degree in vocal performance from the Eastman School of Music, as well as an advanced diploma in classics from The Lancaster Center for Classical Studies.