“Dad, husband, bass-baritone”—that's the order posted on Nicholas Brownlee's Instagram account. The family will probably have to take a step back, as the American is well on his way to Wagner's Olympus. He sings Wotan in the new Munich “Ring,” is being considered for Bayreuth, and is still part of the ensemble in Frankfurt. A conversation about his crazy artistic life, his daughter's high F, and race cars.
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