Born in Ohio, Lawrence Brownlee won the Grand Prize in the 2001 Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions and was nominated “Male Singer of the Year” at the 2017 International Opera Awards. He performs at the leading international opera houses. Acclaimed as a performer of the bel canto operatic repertoire, he has also sung in contemporary operas, including Lorin Maazel’s 1984 and the role of Jazz musician Charles Parker Jr. in Yardbird. In February 2018, he premiered in Tyshawn Sorey’s Cycles of My Being at the Philadelphia Opera. He went on to make his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona in Il viaggio a Reims (Conte di Libenskof), perform Idreno (Sémiramis) at Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the title-role in Count Ory at Zurich Opera, Arturo (I Puritani) at Chicago Opera, the Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier) at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Nadir (Les Pêcheurs de perles) and Fernand (La Favorite) in Houston. Last season, he portrayed, among other roles, Tonio (La Fille du régiment) at Chicago Opera, Ernesto (Don Pasquale) at Teatro alla Scala, Milan and Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. The 2024/25 season features him in several roles, including Tonio in Munich, Arturo at Paris Opera and New York, Count Almaviva in Tokyo. His recordings include “Allegro Io Son”, The Barber of Seville, Armida, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Carmina Burana, and a Spirituals album with pianist Damien Sneed. Lawrence Brownlee serves as artistic advisor for Opera Philadelphia.

At the Paris Opera: L'italiana in Algeri (Lindoro), 2010; The Barber of Seville (Count Almaviva), 2012, 2016; Don Pasquale (Ernesto), 2018; La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro), 2018; Platée (title-role), 2022