Shaun Brown played Fiorello in Opera Queensland's production of The Barber of Seville.
Shaun has Graduate Diplomas in Opera and Vocal Performance from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, where he studied with the eminent voice teacher Joseph Ward OBE.
In 1995, Shaun won the Conservatorium Post Graduate Scholarship, performed the title role in Elijah – the Opera (for the Brisbane Biennial) and made his professional debut in Opera Queensland’s production of Carmen (as Dancairo). He went on to perform numerous roles for the company including Masetto in Don Giovanni, the Herald in Otello, the Notary in Don Pasquale, Schaunard in La bohème, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore, Moralès in Carmen, Antonio in The Marriage of Figaro, Count Paris in Romeo and Juliet and Dr Falke in Die Fledermaus (which also toured regional Queensland). Shaun also performed the role of The Pilgrim in the Australian première of Vaughan Williams’s Pilgrim’s Progress (for the 2002 Brisbane Festival).
As a recipient of one of the inaugural Lord Mayor’s Performing Arts Fellowships, Shaun travelled to England, Germany and Italy to further his vocal and language studies. On his return to Australia, he was awarded the Italian Opera Award (1999), which enabled him to study for the first half of that year at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. In 2005, he was the recipient of the National Liederfest German-Australian Lied Prize, travelling to Germany where he performed at a Liederfest in Wiesbaden and in numerous concerts throughout the country.
