Nilam Brown is a soprano who currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

She is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she received her Master’s in Vocal Performance from the University of New Mexico. One of her favorite roles there was Luigia in Donizetti’s Viva La Mamma, the National Opera Association’s Category I 1st place winner in 2009-2010. Nilam has also performed as Vénus in Bel Cantanti Opera’s production of Offenbach’s Orphée aux Enfers and covered Musetta in La Bohème with Lyric Opera Northwest.

She has extensive experience in opera ensembles including Eugene Onegin and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden with Bel Cantanti Opera, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, and Roméo et Juliette with Maryland Lyric Opera, La Traviata and La Bohème with Lyric Opera Northwest, as well as the zarzuela Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente with Teatro Lirico DC. Nilam is proud to be a member of the Seattle Opera Supplemental Chorus.

Outside of opera, Nilam performed the soprano solos in Mozart’s Grand Mass in C Minor at the World Bank and IMF. She sang a solo for Arise Awake, a program honoring Swami Vivekananda and his teachings, in the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center. She was honored to sing at the Indian Embassy’s Christmas parties for four years in a row, as well as at the Japanese Ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC.

Nilam has also sung a variety of choral works by Beethoven, Durufle, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Poulenc, and Verdi, among others. She has over six years of experience as a professional chorister. This summer, Nilam made her Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society debut as Ada in Princess Ida. She was selected be an Artist In Residence at Lyric Opera Northwest, where she will sing the role of Genovieffa in their production of Suor Angelica this fall.

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