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Ryan Brown is the founder, conductor, and artistic director of Opera Lafayette. Through his work with Opera Lafayette, Mr. Brown has becom
a leading figure in the revival of baroque opera in America. His vivid explorations of the French repertoire in particular have earned him an international reputation, receiving the highest praise from critics in the United States and abroad. These performances have highlighted the various traditions of the tragédie-lyrique, the opéra-ballet, the opéra-comique, the pastorale, and the dramma-giocoso. Mr. Brown’s discography for Naxos includes masterpieces by well-known 18th-century composers as well as discoverie
of their contemporaries (Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice, Sacchini’s Œdipe à Colone, Rameau’s Operatic Airs and Dances, and Rebel and Francœur’s Zélindor, roi des Sylphes), works which exemplify traditions in the 17th-century (Lully’s Armide), and those which point the way toward the music of the 19th-century (Monsigny’s Le Déserteur, to be released in 2010). Mr. Brown was raised in a musical family in California, and performed extensively as a violinist and chamber musician in New York and on tour before turning his attentions to conducting. He and his wife and sons divide their time between Washington, DC and Southwestern Colorado.
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