Rhonda Browne was born in New Zealand and began singing with the internationally acclaimed New Zealand Youth Choir, and in 2004 she relocated to London to pursue a solo career. Subsequently, she was awarded the London Wagner Society’s Bayreuth Bursary and Audience Prize, and studied on the Singers of Tomorrow programme at the National Opera Studio. This is her ENO debut.
Career Highlights
Notable engagements: Filipyevna Eugene Onegin, Schwertleite Die Walküre , Erda (cover) Das Rheingold (Royal Ballet & Opera); The Witch Hansel and Gretel (Lyric Opera Ireland); Erda Das Rheingold and Siegfried, and Schwertleite Die Walküre (Longborough Festival Opera). Roles elsewhere include Filipyevna Eugene Onegin (West Green House Opera); Baba The Turk The Rake’s Progress (Bury Court Opera); Mistress Bentson Lakmé (Swansea City Opera); Auntie Peter Grimes (Nottingham Philharmonic); and The Duchess of Plaza Toro The Gondoliers, Ludmila The Bartered Bride and Gudrun in the world premiere of Coleridge Taylor’s Thelma (Surrey Opera). Concert performances include Mozart Requiem (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra); Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (English National Ballet); Forget Me Not – Queer Composers (Zürich Chamber Orchestra); and Wagner Wesendonck Lieder (Manukau Symphony Orchestra).
