Stephen Mark Brown

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rdf:langString Stephen Mark Brown is an American opera tenor. He has sung with Luciano Pavarotti on the television program "Pavarotti Plus," and has sung at La Scala. In 2005, Brown was described as "emerging as one of today's leading tenors in the French and Italian repertories". Brown was born in Lansing, Michigan and grew up in Searcy, Arkansas, where he sang bass in the chorus directed by Craig Jones at Harding Academy. He went on to further his education at Harding University and Indiana University, where he learned from Virginia Zeani and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and received his Master's degree in the same year (1992) that he won the Opera Company of Philadelphia/Luciano Pavarotti Competition. This brought him to national prominence in the United States as he was named 1993 Debut Artist of the Year. He has also won the Altamura/Enrico Caruso International Voice Competition.