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David Lee Brewer, born in Omaha, Nebraska, studied at Langston University and did his graduate work at the Cleveland Institute of Music. His debut was with the Lyric Opera Cleveland as Romeo in “Romeo et Juliette” and later he joined the Houston Grand Opera where he prepared for what has developed into an international career in opera.
In only nine years Mr. Brewer has sung in many of the worlds great theaters and opera houses: Teatro Sao Camões, Teatro Real, Opera Monte Carlo, Oper Leipzig, Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, Los Angeles Opera, New Jersey Opera, Cleveland Opera, Cedar Rapid Opera Theater, Houston Ebony Opera (a company that Brewer helped start) and Opera Illinois. In co-production with the Houston Grand Opera, Brewer sang Sportin Life/crabman in their monumental production of “Porgy and Bess” which toured nationally and internationally to La Scala in Milan, L’Opera Bastille in Paris, Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo in Japan. Since that production with Houston the tenor has sung Pinkerton in “Madama Butterfly,” Rodolfo in “La Bohéme,” Don José in “Carmen,” Cavaradossi in “Tosca,” Romeo in “Romeo et Juliette,” Don Ottavio in “Don Giovanni,” Duke of Mantua in “Rigoletto,” Kinna in “Amistad,” Faust in “Faust” and Sportin Life in “Porgy and Bess.”
As a guest in the 2000/2003 season Brewer sang with the Staatsorchester Frankfurt/Oder Beethoven “Nine” in Frankfurt/Oder and Poland, “Faust” with Oper Leipzig in their Silverstergala, Lincoln Center Festival in “O Corvo Branco” (an opera written by Philip Glass), in Stuttgart and Berlin the Rossini “Messe Petite Solennelle,” and in Carnegie Hall Mozart’s “Solemn Vespers.” He sang Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” with the Staatskapelle Weimar and with Los Angeles Theater Works in “Black Water” in Los Angeles und New York.
In the 2003-2004 season David Lee Brewer sang Aristeus/Pluto in “Orpheus in der Unterwelt,” Don Ottavio in “Don Giovanni,” Cassio in “Otello,” Tamino in “Die Zauberflöte,” Werther in “Werther,” Rodolfo in “La Bohéme,” Fenton in “Lustige Weiber,” Italian Sänger in “Rosenkavalier” and Orsino in Manfred Trojahns “Was ihr wollt.” Also he sang concerts with the celebrated Weimar Staatskapelle and debuted with the Heidelberg Symphony and with Vocal Essence in Minneapolis, honoring the great American concert singer, Roland Hayes. .
Recently, 2004-05, Brewer sang concerts scheduled in Minnesota and California, Guadalup, Frankfurt and Vienna, a recording of “Amistad”, in the role he created at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, is in the works. The Duke of Mantua in “Rigoletto,” Rodolfo in “La Boheme,” “Les Negre” a new opera by Michael Levinas at Opera Lyon and Geneva and teaching master classes at St. Olaf College and Bemidji State University in Northfield and Bemidji, Minnesota respectively kept the tenor busy. Upcoming in 2005 is Madama Butterfly, Concerts with Vocal Essence in Michigan and La Boheme.
David Lee Brewer has worked with conductors Christoph Eschenbach, Dennis Russell Davies, Julius Rudel, Günter Neuhold, Michail Jurowski, Arvo Volmer, Willie Anthony Waters, Patrick Davin, Arthur Fagen, Anton Coppola and concretized with the Tulsa Philharmonic, Mexico City Symhony, New England Symphony, The Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy and Houston Symphony.
CRITICS:
Tenor David Lee Brewer sang a stupendous fourth act Rigoletto, thrilling…. the audience was so enraptured they began singing along. Charles Ward “Houston Chronicle” .
Tenor David Lee Brewer sings with Impressive ease and clarity. “Tania CD” Joshua Rosenblum, Opera News
Tenor David Lee Brewer sang Beethoven’s “An Die Ferne Geliebte” with absolute authority and with clear diction. His voice is warm in timbre and exciting, showing many colors. Schmidt, Frankfurter Allegemeine
Bravo and particular mention goes to Tenor David Lee Brewer. Alessandro Mormile, l’opera magazine
A real talent…David Lee Brewer finds echos of Sportin’ Life as Pimiento and moved with great accuracy between the difficult singing lines and dancing. His French was superb. Joel Kashow, Opera Diary Frankreich
Tenor David Lee Brewer found the exact style of the powerful French tenors in the long phrases as Werther. Hans-Jürgen Thiers, Thüringen Landes Zeitung
David Lee Brewer, with the highest level of acting was absolutely convincing as Werther. In this very demanding director’s concept where Brewer, who was onstage the entire span of the opera, carried the weigh of the opera admirably…. done in German and with very clear diction from Brewer, the tenor possessed, in all forte sections, brilliant and effortless high tones. K.F. Schulter, Das Opernglas magazine
Tenor David Lee Brewer was brilliant in Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle”. Sueddeutsche Zeitung
David Lee Brewer sang with a powerful energy that mesmerized in Tippett’s “A child of our Time” with the Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg. Philharmonisches Magazine
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