Brian Asawa

about

In 1991, Brian Asawa's career was launched when he became the first countertenor to win the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He was the first countertenor Adler Fellow for San Francisco Opera, became the first countertenor to win the Placido Domingo "Operalia" International Opera Competition. He was also awarded Seattle Opera's Artist of the Year Award for his portrayal of Arsamene in Handel's Xerxes. Since 1993 he has appeared in opera houses world wide singing signature roles such as Tolomeo for Seattle Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Bordeaux Opera, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opera at Palais Garnier, Madrid's Teatro Real, Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu, New Israeli Opera, and Hamburg Staatsoper. Other roles include: Prince Orlofsky in Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus for San Francisco Opera and San Diego Opera; Arsamene for Los Angeles, Cologne, and Santa Fe Operas, and Grand Théâtre de Genève; Belize in Peter Eotvos's Angels in America; Mascha in Eotvos's Tri Sestri and Ottone in Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea for Hamburg, the last also for Glimmerglass Opera; Nero in Poppea for Opera Australia; Endimione in Cavalli's La Calisto in Brussels; Fyodor in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov for Nederlandse Opera and Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona; Orfeo in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice for Nederlandse Opera; David in Handel's Saul for Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich; Oberon in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream for San Francisco and Houston G

top songs

albums

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Brian Asawa - The Complete RCA Recordings

Vocalise

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Je n'aime décidément pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!

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Love Classics

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Haendel: Le Messie Grands Airs et Choeurs

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Les Chants De L'Extase

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Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponte

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Handel: Messiah

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Dark is my delight, The, and other 16th century lute songs

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Spirits of the Air

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Rachmaninoff Vocalise

Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream

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