Perth – Australia
Lisa Harper-Brown is a past first prize winner of the vocal section of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Young Performer Award and a recipient of the Australian Singing Competition’s Faigen Award, which enabled her to study at the Britten-Pears School.
Her first operatic engagements were for the West Australian Opera singing The First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, the title role of Handel’s Alcina and Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus while 2021 saw her return to the company for performances including a semi-staged production of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and for the role of Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro.
She made her debut for Opera Australia as the First Lady and then as Pamina in the Melbourne season of Die Zauberflöte.
Subsequently her performances for the company included the role of Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, performances of which Opera~Opera wrote, the secret, on this occasion, to exciting success was in the casting of Fiordiligi. She is a difficult performer to forget, tall and willowy, a committed actor … her performance satisfying in a way that is rare at the opera.. As Elsa in Lohengrin The Telegraph wrote, It was a night of superlatives. Lisa Harper-Brown made a heart stopping debut as the tragic Elsa.
Her other roles for Opera Australia include Elisabeth in Tannhäuser and Eva in Der Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Agathe in Der Freischütz, Belinda in Dido & Aeneas, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Echo in Ariadne Auf Naxos and Diana in Orpheus In The Underworld.
She has appeared as Ortlinde in the State Opera Of South Australia’s seasons of Die Walküre, and has been engaged by Opera Queensland as Musetta in La Boheme and for its premiere season of The Sopranos in 2022.
In New Zealand her work has included Donna Anna in Don Giovanni for Opera New Zealand and the role of Elizabeth I in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda for Days Bay Opera in Wellington.
In Europe she appeared the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte for Hamburg State Opera.
Harper-Brown’s work on the concert platform includes being soloist in Gorecki’s Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs for the University Of Western Australia, Mendelssohn’s Elijah opposite British baritone, Benjamin Luxon, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater for the Perth International Festival Verdi’s Requiem with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Barber’s Knoxville, Summer Of 1915 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Symphony Under The Stars in the Sydney Festival.
She appeared in The Ringtone Cycle in a season of five performances at the Melbourne Recital Centre as part of the programme of the 2013 Melbourne Ring Festival which ran concurrently with Opera Australia’s production of Wagner’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen, the piece written for her and the Seraphim Trio by Graham Koehne and which she originally premiered at the 2012 Adelaide Festival.
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