Incorporating Summer Music"Hitting all the right notes" "There is not any music of instruments whatsoever comparable to that which is made of the voices of men". "Since singing is so good a thing I wish all men would learn to sing" William Byrd 1588 |
Kate Brown started directing after a degree at Oxford and voice studies in Austria. She has worked throughout Britain and Europe, notably for Glyndebourne, the Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, the Vienna Staatsoper, La Fenice Venice, and the Handel festivals at Halle and Göttingen among others, and has directed Purcell and Gilbert and Sullivan in the US. Her productions span ten centuries of music theatre, from medieval plainsong drama to contemporary opera, including the world premiere of Tobias and the Angel by Jonathan Dove. She has made a speciality of early opera, and has directed the modern world premieres of several seventeenth-century works such as La Vita Humana.
Other productions include The Indian Queen, Giulio Cesare, Die Freischütz, Rigoletto, Eugene Onegin and The Pirates of Penzance. She has also devised and directed many music-theatre pieces including A Conversation with Angels (based on the life and music of Hildegard of Bingen), Celebrating Mr Purcell (Purcell’s theatre music) and Lady Hamilton’s Attitudes, an evening with Emma and Sir William Hamilton and the music of Haydn. She has taught at the Guildhall and at Trinity in London, and in Spain and Holland. For details of Kate’s recent productions please see: www.newcockaigne.demon.co.uk
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