Nicholas Brownlee
bass-baritone
© Barbara Aumüller
American bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee, who won the the 2025 Richard Tucker Award, joined the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2020/21. His dizzy making number of new roles since then included the title role & Amfortas in last season's new productions of Macbeth and Parsifal, Amonasro & Hans Sachs in new productions of Aida & Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Don Giovanni, the title roles in Szymanowsky's Król (King) Roger & Bluebeard's Castle, Jochanaan (Salome), Kreon (Oedipus Rex), the Spirit Messenger (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Escamillo in Carmen and he gave a recital in 2024. During the 2025/26 season you can hear him singing Balstrode (role debut) in Peter Grimes, Scarpia in Tosca and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde. He sang the title role in The Flying Dutchman, which he also sang in Turin and Munich, Mozart's Figaro and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream in Santa Fe, Méphistophélès (Gounod's Faust) in Dublin, Kaspar / Samiel (Der Freischütz), Grandier (The Devil of Loudun) and Wotan (Rheingold) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Pizzaro (Fidelio) in Amsterdam, Wotan in Dallas, Paris and Leipzig and Colline (La bohème) at the Met in New York and in Los Angeles. Before coming to Frankfurt he was a member of the Ensemble at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, where roles included Melisso (Alcina), Count Capulet (Roméo et Juliette), Paolo Albiani (Boccanegra), Leporello (Don Giovanni) and the 4 Villains inThe Tales of Hoffmann and enjoyed great success jumping in at short notice to sing Enrico VIII in Anna Bolena at the Vienna State Opera. He makes his debut at the Bayreuth Festival this summer, singing Donner in Rheingold.