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The American mezzo-soprano singer and voice actor, Erica Brookhyser, obtained her Bachelor of Music degree from New England Conservatory of Music (2004-2006). Erica Brookhyser Brookhyser made her professional debut as Myrtale in Thaïs with Boston Lyric Opera while still a Master’s student at New England Conservatory. She apprenticed with Utah Opera, Central City Opera, Tanglewood Music Center, Santa Fe Opera, and with the Plácido Domingo Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera where her mainstage roles included Waltraute in DieWalküre, Mercedes in Georges Bizet's Carmen, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Annina in La Traviata, and the Mother in Die Gezeichneten. She was the 2012 winner of ARTE-TV “Open Opera: Who will become Carmen?”--a talent-search television show that aired in France and Germany, in which she won the title role of Carmen for a live televised broadcast from Berlin. She has received other honors including Semifinalist at the Operalia Competition, 1st Place Northwest Regional Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Sullivan Foundation Career Grant, and the John Moriarty Presidential Scholarship.
Erica Brookhyser has emerged as a formidable mezzo-soprano in the lyric and now the dramatic repertories. Her interpretations of Brangäne, Carmen, Didon, Preziosilla, Suzuki, as well as Waltraute, Wellgunde, and Zweite Norn have garnered excellent notices in Europe and the USA.
As principle mezzo-soprano in the Staatstheater Darmstadt ensemble, Erica Brookhyser’s repertoire included the lyric roles of Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Muse-Nicklausse in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Fenena in Nabucco, and Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice, as well as the dramatic roles of Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Carmen in G. Bizet's Carmen, Didon in Les Troyens, Lola in Cavalleria Rusticana, Preziosilla in La Forza del Destino, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and Waltraute, Wellgunde, Zweite Norn in Der Ring des Nibelungen. She has appeared as Carmen with Theater Erfurt and Seefestspiele Berlin, and at Nationaltheater Mannheim as Wellgunde in Das Rheingold.
Notable recent performances include her debut with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in La Traviata, a fully-staged El Niño at Spoleto Festival USA, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with Opera Colorado, Brigitta in Die Tote Stadt with Odyssey Opera, and her return to Los Angeles Opera as Meg Page in Falstaff.
Her concert appearances include Moses und Aron with Boston Symphony Orchestra under the baton of James Levine, Blizzard Voices with BMOP under Gil Rose, J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 and W.A. Mozart's Mass in C-minor with the Cincinnati May Festival conducted by James Conlon, Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Wesendonck Lieder with Orchester Staatstheater Darmstadt under the baton of Elias Grandy, and the G. Mahler's Rückert Lieder with Newport Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adam Flatt. She currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. |
