Alison Browner

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Alison Margaret Browner , married Alison Gries (born September 22, 1957 in Dublin ) is an Irish opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Alison Browner graduated from Trinity College in Dublin with a Bachelor of Arts degree in musicology and studied singing and violin at the College of Music there . With a DAAD scholarship, she came to the Hamburg University of Music and finished her studies there with a song and concert diploma.

Her singing career began in the opera studio of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, at the Darmstadt State Theater and working with Hans Hotter .

Alison Browner sang the composer in Richard Strauss ' Ariadne auf Naxos and the title role in his Rosenkavalier as well as the great Mozart and Rossini roles as a member of the Mannheim National Theater from 1987 onwards .

Her international breakthrough came in the London Royal Opera House, Covent Garden , in the title role of Rossini's La Cenerentola . Numerous appearances in major opera houses such as the Brussels Opera House La Monnaie or the “ Vlaamse Opera ” Antwerp / Gent followed. At the Salzburg Festival she appeared under Sir John Eliot Gardiner .

In addition to the opera, Alison Browner shows great interest in the song and concert repertoire. In recent years she has sung all major oratorios and many recitals all over the country and abroad.

Alison Browner celebrates success with a broad repertoire with well-known ensembles and conductors such as Philippe Herreweghe , Eric Ericson and his chamber choir, the “ Concerto Köln ” and many others.

For years, Alison Browner has been singing many concerts with the Limburger Domsingknaben , where her husband Wilhelm Gries works as a voice trainer, deputy choir director and conductor of the men's school.

Alison Browner's repertoire includes numerous works from the Baroque period (including Bach, Handel, Haydn), the Classical (including Mozart, Beethoven), the Romantic (including Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Brahms, Schubert, Strauss) and the modern period (including Schönberg, Boulez ).

Discography (selection)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata Heart and Mouth and Action and Life, BWV 147 ; Joseph Haydn: Missa in D minor in angustiis Hob. XXII: 11 (Mass in the distress, also: Nelson Mass). Performers: Ulrike Sonntag (soprano), Alison Browner (alto), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Ernst Gerold Schramm (bass), Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann , Alois Kottmann (from left), Figuralchor des Hessischen Rundfunks , Alois Ickstadt (conductor). Melisma 726, Oestrich-Winkel.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Johannes-Passion BWV 245. Performers: Ulrike Sonntag (soprano), Alison Browner (alto), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Ernst Gerold Schramm (bass), Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann, Alois Kottmann (from left), figural choir of Hessischer Rundfunk, Alois Ickstadt (conductor). Melisma 7058, Oestrich-Winkel.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach: Mass in B minor BWV 232. Performers: Ulrike Sonntag (soprano), Alison Browner (alto), Adalbert Kraus (tenor), Ernst Gerold Schramm (bass), Collegium Instrumentale Alois Kottmann, Alois Kottmann (from left), figural choir of the Hessischer Rundfunk, conductor: Alois Ickstadt. Melisma 7023-2, Oestrich-Winkel.

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personal data
SURNAME Browner, Alison
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Browner, Alison Margaret (full name); Gries, Alison
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin