Portraits

Photo by MARTY UMANS:

 

 

 

 

Photos by DARIO ACOSTA:

 

 

 

 

Photos by HARRY HELEOTIS:

 

Photos by ANDREAS KLINGBERG:

 

 

 

 

Photos by DALE PICKETT:

 

Productions

ARMIDA

by Ken Howard | With Renée Fleming

 

Feb. 16, 2010

Tonio,  La fille du régiment

Metropolitan Opera - role debut

Singing the aria, "Ah! mes amis..." | Reaction to crowd applause after the above | Backstage after performance with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa

 

April 2009

LA CENERENTOLA (as Don Ramiro)

Metropolitan Opera | Photo: Ken Howard

 

Mayr – Medea in Corinto (Egeo)

Theater St. Gallen | St. Gallen, SWITZERLAND

Photo Credit ©Tanja Dorendorf/T & T Fotografie

 

May/June 2009  L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI  -  Trieste

CREDIT: F. Parenzan

 

 

 

 

 

March 2009 -  LA GAZZA LADRA

With Mariola Cantarero | CREDIT: Teatro Comunale, Bologna

 

June 2008 - TURCO IN ITALIA - Company debut

Photo Credit: Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

 

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Oct. 2008, courtesy Festspiele Baden-Baden

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L'italiana in Algeri (Lindoro)

Opera Company of Philadelphia | Nov. 2008, CREDIT:  Kelly & Massa

 

Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte Almaviva)

The Metropolitan Opera, April 26, 2007 – DEBUT | Credit: Ken Howard

 

I Puritani (Arturo)

Photo credit ROZARII LYNCH (www.rozariiphotography.com), Seattle Opera, 2008

With Norah Amsellem (as Elvira)

 

La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro)

Photo: courtesy of Houston Grand Opera, 2007 | With: Joyce DiDonato

 

L'italiana in Algeri (Lindoro)

Seattle Opera, Staging rehearsal, October 2006

PHOTO CREDIT: Rozarii Lynch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte Almaviva)

Photo: courtesy Wiener Staatsoper, March 2006

Photo: Wiener Staatsoper GmbH-© Axel Zeininger

 

La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro)

Photo: Opera Company of Philadelphia - 2006 | Credit: Kelly & Massa

 

Il barbiere di Siviglia (Conte Almaviva)

San Diego Opera, January 2006| Photo: Ken Howard

 

Florencia en el Amazonas (Arcadio)

Photo: courtesy Seattle Opera, 2005

Credit: Rozarii Lynch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L'Italiana in Algeri (Lindoro)

Photo: courtesy Boston Lyric Opera, November 2004

© Richard Feldman

 

La fille du régiment  (Tonio)

Photo:  courtesy Cincinnati Opera, June 2004

Credit: Philip Groshong

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L'italiana in Algeri (Lindoro)

Photo: courtesy Teatro alla Scala, 2002-2003

© A. Tamoni

 

Pesaro Recital

August 2008 with Rosetta Cucchi at the piano .

Credit: Amati Bacciardi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don Pasquale (Ernesto)

Photo: courtesy Seattle Opera, January 2003

Credit: Rozarii Lynch

 

Concert, Backstage & Miscellaneous

May 13, 2010 Concert at the Supreme Court

Photo Credit : Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

With accompanist Betty Buckley | Dignitaries applaud Larry | With Justice Antonin Scalia and Mrs. Scalia | With former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Larry and Kendra Brownlee  and wife Kendra | With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg | With Dr. Robert A. Montgomery, Denyce Graves, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Kendra and Larry Brownlee

 

April 13, night after ARMIDA opening  - Interview, ADVENTURES IN ITALIAN OPERA” with Fred Plotkin at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò of New York University

Left to right :  LB, The Countess Zerilli-Marimò, Davinia Frizza, Fred Plotklin, Maestro Riccardo Frizza and Dr. Stefano Albertini | Dr. Stefano Albertini, Maestro Riccardo Frizza and wife Davinia and LB | Fred Plotkin queries LB

 

Met Opera Guild Luncheon, April 20, 2010

Photos by Dario Acosta 2010 | with Martina Arroyo | with Barry Banks | with Rockwell Blake | with James Valenti

 

Armida Backstage | Outside the Met

With Karen & Pino outside the Met | With wife Kendra | With Mr. and Mrs. Philip Gossett | With Guillermo Martinez | With Marilyn Horne | With Renée Fleming and Keith Miller | With Kobie van Rensburg and Barry Banks | With  Kobie van Rensburg, Barry Banks , LB, John Osborn and José Manuel Zapata

 

At WQXR - March 10, 2010

With Elliott Forrest after the interview | Chatting on air with Elliott

 

CONCERT IN PUERTO RICO for Culturarte, Feb. 12, 2010

Photo Credit: Joe Colon: LB and Maestro Maximiano Valdes | With Eglise | Bows - LB and Eglise

Reception following the above,  Photo Credit: Benny Bautista: (left to right) Guillermo L. Martinez , President and Artistic Director of CulturArte de Puerto Rico. Eglise Gutiérrez and LB| With wife Kendra | Signing posters | LB with Alfonsina Molinari , Production Coordinator, and Eglise

 

MASTER CLASS AT WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY  (Dayton)

January 28, 2010

Photo credit: Martin Gooden, Wright State University

Larry with students | Larry with Vincent Davis, Prof of Music

 

DAYTON OPERA RECITAL

January 29, 2010

With accompanist Howard Watkins | Photo credit: The Dayton Opera

 

 

 

 

PHOTO CREDIT : Paul Griggsby

With Jim Lieberthal following a Recital at William Jewell College Liberty, MO

October 2009

 

SEMIRAMIDE rehearsal

New York, July 29, 2009 | With  Maestro Will Crutchfield | With Vivica Genaux and Philip Gossett

 

September 9 - National Anthem at Washington National Baseball Stadium : Opera Night

           

Backstage at Met - May 6, 2009

With Guillermo Martinez and John Relyea

 

May '09 - New York

Anderson group backstage at the Met | Kendra and Larry on way to luncheon in their honor | With composer Jake Heggie | With Gregory Downer, Art Director,  OPERA NEWS | Outside Met with LA CENERENTOLA three-sheet | Plaza outside Met with ARMIDA poster - for '09-'10 season

 

Rossini Songs Recording Session, 2008

With Malcolm Martineau and Jennifer Larmore

Also, left to right,  Larmore, Mark Wilde and Brindley Sherratt

Photos by Russell Duncan

 

Vocal Arts Society, 2009

Senator Tom Coburn,  Sarah Coburn-Rothermel, Carolyn Coburn and  LB / Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Antonin Scalia with Kendra  Brownlee and LB. Photos by William Wears

Judy Agard and Jim Krieger with LB / Larry's cousin Edwin Snyder and Guest with LB. Photos by Dottie Schmidt

 

Gala honoring Plácido Domingo

With Mark Rucker, Plácido Domingo, Sondra Radvanovsky, Conductor  Robert Lyall, Sarah Jane McMahon and Kristine Jepson

Photo credit:  Janet Wilson, New Orleans Opera 

 

Wedding Photos

With Father before rehearsal / Groom's parents at rehearsal / Bride and Groom at post ceremony luncheon

Larry with Carol Baird - High School Show Choir Director / Bride's parents and uncle

 

Avery Fisher Hall, October 26, 2008

With Marcello Giordani, LB, Bryn Terfel and Sherrill  Milnes / With Robert  Mirshak / With Harolyn Blackwell

 

With Maestro Rovaris

 

During Opera News shoot, Aug. 07, with salsa partners / With Dario Acosta in Riverside Park - Aug. '07

PESARO  - Aug. 17-  Rossini Festival debut

With accompanist Rosetta Cucchi / With Joyce DiDonato, her husband Maestro Leonardo Vordoni and Kendra

With tenor Gregory Kunde

 

With Maestro Alberto Zedda following live recording of Naxos' L'ITAIANA in ALGERI in Wildbad, Germany, July 5, 2008 / In Berlin June 2008 with German Manager, Federico Tondelli

 

Two candid photos with Joyce DiDonato:

After Larry's Houston Grand Opera Debut / Christmas 2007 in Barcelona

Photos by Leonardo Vordoni

 

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala: 2006 Recipient Richard Tucker Award

Photo courtesy of Foundation / With Barry Tucker, President and Sanford H. Fisher, Chairman

 

Following concert in Ann Arbor, Michigan (2006)

With George Shirley and Robert Mirshak / photo courtesy of University Musical Society

 

Larry, Maestro Antonio Pappano and soloists in Rome following and during Rossini's "Stabat Mater" - October '07

 

Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Met: Photo credit Karen Kriendler Nelson. With Victor Callegari / With Joyce DiDonato

With Director  Bart Sher / With John Del Carlo and Bart Sher / With Russell Braun / Act 2 costume

With David Daniels / With Maestro Benini / With Sam Ramey and Joyce DiDonato / After last Met performance

 

Before his Met debut with Pino (dog)

 

Chatting with Cheryl Dring - Sacramento Public Radio, KXYZ / At WQXR New York - talking with Annie Bergen / With Annie Bergen after interview

 

Larry with Cheryl Dolby, VP Creative Affairs A4AMobile and ArtsPass Producer, Richard Humphrey, CEO A4AMobile and Host of ArtsPass Live!

 

With WCO Executive Director Judy Gruber / Just before concert / Solo bow

After concert / With Sarah Coburn / With Stephen Powell, Sarah Coburn, Antony Walker, David Pittsinger, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (photo Dottie Schmidt)

 

With David Daniels / With accompanist Martin Katz / Martin Katz and David Daniels

With Evelyn Lear / With the late Thomas Stewart

 

A visit from the Coast Guard - photo Ken Howard / With Met Opera head of Make-Up Department Victor Callegari / With  Dad and brother at post performance party

With Kendra Wilson

 

Seattle Opera's Florencia in the Amazons, 2005

With D'arcy Bleiker, Luretta Bybee and Frances Lucey

With Nancy Gustafson and conductor Vjekoslaw Sutej

With Nathan Gunn Seattle Opera Florencia in the Amazons

 

Carmina Burana Recording (Berlin Philharmonic), 2004

With Simon Rattle, Christian Gerharher and Sally Matthews

 

Boston Lyric Opera's L'Italiana in Algieri

David Starkey (my first voice teacher) Gary Lehman (Taddeo) Christopher Hutton (Ali)

With Eric Owens (Mustafa)

With Dean Williamson

With Eudora Brown (Zulma) and Laura Stuart Choi (Elvira)

With Phyllis Pancella (Isabella)

 

EMI Recording

With Martin Katz, Arne Akselberg, John Fraser and Patrizia Dina

With Martin Katz

With John Fraser

 

Operhaus Zurich's Axur Re D’Ormus

With Dieter Kaegi

With Franco Vassallo and Boguslaw Bidzinski

 

As Count Libenskof in Il viaggio a Reims at Genoa

With Elena De La Merced as Corinna

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cincinnati Opera's Daughter of the Regiment

With Celena Shafer