AddieRose Brown, Mezzo-Soprano

Born in Lancaster, PA

MM from The Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Bard College Conservatory of Music

BM in vocal performance from the Eastman School of Music

Advanced diploma in classics from The Lancaster Center for Classical Studies. 

Lives in New York

Role debut as Siebel in Heartbeat Opera’s new production of Faust, adapted by Sara Holdren & Jacob Ashworth

World premiere of Clarice Jensen’s The Exaltation of Inanna with ACME at The Morgan Library

World premiere of “Welcome to Guntown” featuring Brown’s original poetry and music by Maria Corley (first prize, Sparks and Wiry Cries / NYC songSLAM)

Covering Nellie (South Pacific) for the New Philharmonic’s “Broadway in Concert”

Concerts and recitals at Carnegie Hall

Role debut as Zerlina (Don Giovanni) with Vincerò Academy & Escenia Ensamble A.C. in Mazatlan, Mexico

Role debut as Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble

Also works in costumes, and has done stitching & wardrobe work on and off Broadway, as well as at The Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College, Finger Lakes Opera, Martha Graham Dance Company, Manhattan School of Music, and the Big Apple Circus 

Starred in a student film entitled The Man with the Man Tattoo, as Stephanie, who falls in love with a tattoo on her boyfriend’s arm when it starts talking to her…

Worked as a Latin and Ancient Greek tutor at her parents’ school when she was a teenager

Dream role from another fach: Billy Budd

Favourite role she would sing every day if someone paid her to: Mélisande

Dream role that’s been written: Carmen - cliché, but it’s the first opera she saw, and the woman singing Carmen was a head taller than all the men in the cast, and wore a big red flower in her hair, and 7-year-old AddieRose was thrilled.

Dream role that hasn’t been written yet: probably Emily Dickinson — composer TBD