The rising young mezzo-soprano Angela Brower grew up in Mesa, Arizona and studied at Arizona State University and Indiana University. While still studying, she began an active concert career and developed her operatic repertoire to include such roles as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and Hänsel in Hänsel and Gretel. Besides winning various awards and prizes during her studies, she also sang at Glimmerglass Opera as part of the 2008 Young American Artists Program.
Angela Brower is currently a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper ensemble and was the winner of the prestigious 2009 Munich Festival Prize. In the 2011/12 season, she made a triumphant role debut as Nicklausse in the Bayerische Staatsoper’s new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, with Rolando Villazón and Diana Damrau. Ms. Brower made her debut at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden when she sang Dorabella in concert performances, led by Yannick Nézet-Seguin, alongside Rolando Villazón. The performances were recorded by DG as the second installment of the label’s multi-part Mozart cycle, with the recording slated for release in 2013.
In the 2012/13 season, she made her role debut as Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia in Munich, and again played Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel. On the concert stage, she made her debut with the NDR Sinfonieorchester, led by Yan Pascal Tortelier, in Chausson’s Poeme de l’amour and Ravel’s Shehérazade, and sang in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Upcoming role debuts and performances in the 2013/14 season include Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Klagenfurt State Theater, Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the New National Theater in Tokyo, Japan, Annio in the new production of La clemenza di Tito, and Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos in Munich, as well as Siebel in the new production of Faust at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, starring Anna Netrebko.