Carmen Balthrop
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Carmen Balthrop (born 1948) is an American opera singer (soprano) from Maryland. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and performed on Broadway in the title role of Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha. She is a professor of voice at the University of Maryland.
National Public Radio included her National Gallery of Art Christmas performance as part of their 2000 Millennium Celebration.[1]. She performed in the 2000 production of Handel's Agrippina and in the 2010 premiere of Frank Proto's Shadowboxer.
Roles
- Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly
- Violetta in La traviata
- Micaela in Carmen
- Liu in Turandot
- Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni
- Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi
- Susannah in Susannah by Carlisle Floyd
- Treemonisha in Treemonisha by Scott Joplin
Discography
- Scott Joplin's Treemonisha
- Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea
- John Knowles Paine's Mass
- Leslie Burrs' Vanqui
- The Art of Christmas, Volume I
- The Art of Christmas, The Original
References
- ^ "Carmen Balthrop". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-10-18.
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Categories:
- 1948 births
- American operatic sopranos
- University of Maryland, College Park faculty
- Living people
- Singers from Maryland
- Classical musicians from Maryland
- African-American opera singers
- 20th-century American opera singers
- 20th-century American women singers
- 20th-century women opera singers
- 21st-century American opera singers
- 21st-century American women singers
- 21st-century women opera singers