{"id":16204,"date":"2025-05-09T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/?p=16204"},"modified":"2025-05-09T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T15:21:26","slug":"nicholas-brownlee-receives-the-2025-richard-tucker-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/nicholas-brownlee-receives-the-2025-richard-tucker-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Brownlee Receives the 2025 Richard Tucker Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee has been described as \u201ccharismatic and charming\u201d (<em>New York Times<\/em>) with a \u201ccommanding presence\u201d and \u201crich tone\u201d (<em>Musical America<\/em>). He is a first prize winner of the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, winner of the Zarzuela prize at Operalia, and a grand prize winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Nicholas begins the 24\/25 season with a return to the Bayerische Staatsoper for a new Tobias Kratzer production of <em>Das Rheingold<\/em> (Wotan) followed by a return to Oper Frankfurt for new productions of <em>Macbeth<\/em> (title role), <em>Parsifal<\/em> (Amfortas), and a revival of <em>Aida<\/em> (Amonasro). Additional performances include debuts with Op\u00e9ra national de Paris for the new Calixto Bieito production of<em> Das Rheingold<\/em> (Wotan), Palau de les Arts Reina Sof\u00eda for <em>Der fliegende Holl\u00e4nder<\/em> (Title Role), Oper Leipzig for <em>Das Rheingold<\/em> (Wotan), and a return to the Bayreuther Festspiele for <em>Das Rheingold<\/em> (Donner). On the concert stage, he debuts with the C\u0113sis Art Festival in a concert performance of <em>Parsifal<\/em> (Amfortas) and Prague Philharmonia Orchestra for a mixed program with Emmanuel Villaume.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Tucker Foundation, and namely Richard Tucker, helped turn opera into a real, homegrown American thing. It makes me proud as an American how he helped change the way that American schooling became the best schooling for voice.<\/p>\n<p>Going through the Sara Tucker Study Grant, the Richard Tucker Career Grant, and now the big Richard Tucker Award, it\u2019s hard to put into words how much each one of those stages has progressed my career. To be added to the list of previous award winners who have championed American opera singers is incredibly overwhelming, but it\u2019s the biggest \u2018attaboy\u2019 that you could ever have \u2014 as an artist, you never really know the effect you\u2019re making. You go out on stage every night, you give everything that you have, but you wonder, \u2018Am I doing the right thing?\u2019 And when you get an award like this, it says you\u2019re on the right path and to keep going, that what you\u2019re doing matters as it\u2019s affecting and touching people. It makes me proud to carry the Tucker name.<\/p>\n<p>I also stand on the shoulders of every single educator and supporter of mine who saw talent in me when I didn\u2019t see it in myself. Also, my wife, Jennifer, is my biggest supporter in the world. I am incredibly grateful.\u201d <em>\u2014 Nicholas Brownlee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.richardtucker.org\/the-richard-tucker-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee has been described as \u201ccharismatic and charming\u201d (New York Times) with a \u201ccommanding presence\u201d and \u201crich tone\u201d (Musical America). He is a first prize winner of the Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, winner of the Zarzuela prize at Operalia, and a grand prize winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Nicholas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/nicholas-brownlee-receives-the-2025-richard-tucker-award\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7176,7418,3705,7417],"class_list":["post-16204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bass-baritone","tag-nicholas-brownlee","tag-opera","tag-richard-tucker-award"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16205,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16204\/revisions\/16205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/12860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.opus3artists.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}