Biography
American mezzo-soprano Erica Brookhyser has performed extensively in the United States and Europe. Some of her recent appearances include her debut with Los Angeles Philharmonic La Traviata, a fully-staged El Niño at Spoleto Festival USA, Suzuki/Madama Butterfly with Opera Colorado, and her return to Los Angeles Opera as Meg Page/Falstaff.
As principle mezzo-soprano in the Staatstheater Darmstadt ensemble, Ms. Brookhyser’s repertoire included the lyric roles of Cherubino/Le Nozze di Figaro, Muse-Nicklausse/ Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Fenena/Nabucco, and Orfeo/Orfeo ed Euridice, as well as the dramatic roles of Brangäne/ Tristan und Isolde, Carmen/Carmen, Didon/Les Troyens, Lola/Cavalleria Rusticana, Preziosilla/La Forza del Destino, Suzuki/Madama Butterfly, and Waltraute, Wellgunde, Zweite Norn/Der Ring des Nibelungen. She has appeared as Carmen with Theater Erfurt and Seefestspiele Berlin, and at Nationaltheater Mannheim as Wellgunde/Das Rheingold.
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American mezzo-soprano Erica Brookhyser has performed extensively in the United States and Europe. Some of her recent appearances include her debut with Los Angeles Philharmonic La Traviata, a fully-staged El Niño at Spoleto Festival USA, Suzuki/Madama Butterfly with Opera Colorado, and her return to Los Angeles Opera as Meg Page/Falstaff.
As principle mezzo-soprano in the Staatstheater Darmstadt ensemble, Ms. Brookhyser’s repertoire included the lyric roles of Cherubino/Le Nozze di Figaro, Muse-Nicklausse/ Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Fenena/Nabucco, and Orfeo/Orfeo ed Euridice, as well as the dramatic roles of Brangäne/ Tristan und Isolde, Carmen/Carmen, Didon/Les Troyens, Lola/Cavalleria Rusticana, Preziosilla/La Forza del Destino, Suzuki/Madama Butterfly, and Waltraute, Wellgunde, Zweite Norn/Der Ring des Nibelungen. She has appeared as Carmen with Theater Erfurt and Seefestspiele Berlin, and at Nationaltheater Mannheim as Wellgunde/Das Rheingold.
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Reviews
"Erica Brookhyser, the star in question, is impossible not to admire. Erica the woman is impossible not to like.
Then there was the voice. The dark chocolaty voice with that tinge of astringency that the melancholic Mahler requires. She effortlessly pierced his densest textures, and surfed the cresting orchestral waves with the thrilling brilliance of her upper register."
-- Newport News Times
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"Erica Brookhyser, the star in question, is impossible not to admire. Erica the woman is impossible not to like.
Then there was the voice. The dark chocolaty voice with that tinge of astringency that the melancholic Mahler requires. She effortlessly pierced his densest textures, and surfed the cresting orchestral waves with the thrilling brilliance of her upper register."
-- Newport News Times
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