Mezzo-Soprano Christina Carr: The
New York Times lauds mezzo-soprano Christina Carr as "utterly convincing" and a "show-stealer."Ms. Carr has enjoyed
many successes establishing her career as a young musician.She recently performed the role of Azucena in
Il
Trovatore this October with Taconic Opera, and will return in April
2009 as Baba in The Medium. A member
of Analog Arts Ensemble since 2003, she participated in the inaugural ARTSaha!
Festival in Omaha, Nebraska, in 2004, she returned to Nebraska in 2006 to
participate in the festival's re-imagining of Rameau's Les Festes d'Hebe and the
short plays of Samuel Beckett.
She performed the role
of Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoorwith
Opera Omaha in March 2004. Ms. Carr spent the summer of 2003 with Central City
Opera singing the role of Zulma in L'Italiana in Algeri, under the
baton of Hal France, and creating the role of Jane Gordon in the world premiere
of Gabriel's
Daughterby Henry Mollicone,
under the baton of John Moriarty. She was the recipient of the Don Knutson
Memorial Award in 2003.
An alumna of the
Juilliard Opera Center, she has performed the roles of Mrs. McLean in Floyd's Susannahand Mother Jeanne in Poulenc's Dialogues
of the Carmelitesunder the
baton of Julius Rudel. She created the role of Berthe in Juilliard's newly
commissioned work Heloise and Abelardby
Stephen Paulus. At Juilliard she appeared as the alto soloist in Beethoven's Mass in
C Major in Alice Tully Hall.
As a graduate student
at the Eastman School of Music, Ms. Carr performed the roles of Amastris in
Handel's Xerxes, Lady Jane in
Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, and Maurya in Vaughn
Williams' Riders to the Sea. She has also performed the role of Mrs.
Grose in Britten's Turn of the Screwas
a guest artist with the Cleveland Institute of Music. At Brevard Music
Festival, under the baton of David Effron, she sang the role of La Zia
Principessa in Suor Angelicain
2000.Ms. Carr was the first-prize winner of the New York
Vocal Artists competition in 2002. She was a semi-finalist in the Young
Patronesses of the Opera competition in Miami, a finalist in the 2002
MacAllister awards, and a regional finalist in the 2002 Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions. Ms. Carr is
a student of W. Stephen Smith.
