Voice
BME The College of Wooster
MM University of Illinois
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Applied Voice
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About
Soprano Winifred Faix Brown was with the Metropolitan Opera for four seasons where she performed with Maestro James Levine and artists such as Luciano Pavarotti and Sam Ramey in I Lombardi and The Magic Flute. She has portrayed seventy roles including Norma (Opéra National de Paris, New York City Opera, Caracas, Mexico City), Lucia (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Miami Opera, Guadalajara Opera, Monterrey Opera), Violetta (San Francisco Opera, L.A. Opera Theater, Mexico City), Donna Anna (Deutsche Oper Berlin, Cologne, Rome, Parma, Milwaukee), and Rosalinda (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston), and has been featured in virtually all of the regional opera companies of North America.
Recent engagements include Verdi and Brahms Requiems, the Strauss Four Last Songs, Mahler's Symphony No's 2 and 4, the Wozzek Suite, Elijah, St. Matthew Passion, Bruckner's Te Deum, Beethoven's Symphony No.9, and Carmina Burana.
Well-known as a concert soloist, Ms. Brown has performed with such groups as the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Grant Park Symphony. She enjoys giving recitals, and chamber groups recognize her talent for early music and the avant garde. In addition, she is founder and artistic director of N.O.V.A., a service-based touring company.