Lisa Harper-Brown

Biography
For Opera Australia, Lisa’s appearances include multiple seasons of the Countess (The Marriage of Figaro) for which she received a Helpmann Award, Pamina and First Lady (The Magic Flute), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Helena (Midsummer Night’s Dream), Elsa (Lohengrin), Diana (Orpheus in the Underworld) and Belinda (Dido and Aeneas).
Other roles include Ortlinde (Die Walküre) State Opera South Australia, Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) Opera New Zealand, First Lady (The Magic Flute) Hamburg State Opera, and Elizabeth (Maria Stuarda) Days Bay Opera New Zealand. For Western Australia Opera, soprano solo in Elijah, the title role in Alcina, First Lady (The Magic Flute), Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus), Venus (Orpheus in the Underworld), Frasquita (Carmen), and in 2021 she revisited the Countess (The Marriage of Figaro).
Concert appearances include Knoxville: Summer Of 1915 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Under the Stars with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater for the Perth Festival and Verdi’s Requiem with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.
Lisa has recorded for ABC Classic FM, Radio NZ and SouNZ and has released two albums of Australian song.
Past roles for Opera Queensland include Musetta in La Bohème.