| Rebecca Carr |
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| Soprano Rebecca Carr has been hailed
in the press for singing “radiantly" and “brilliantly” with her “big,
vibrant soprano voice,” matched with "remarkable" and "touching"
portrayals. Beginning in her hometown of Auburn, New York, Miss Carr played mandolin, violin and piano before starting the vocal training that led her to Ithaca College (BM), The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MM), and to be granted the Artists' Diploma from Philadelphia's prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts. Miss Carr's repertoire of operatic roles includes the title roles of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. Verdi roles include Violetta in La Traviata, Luisa Miller, Alice Ford in Falstaff, and Desdemona in Otello. She has performed Mozart’s Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte, Donna Elvira and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, as well as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, along with Marie in The Bartered Bride, and Musetta in La Boheme. In the world of operetta, Rebecca has excelled as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, the title role in Kalman's Countess Maritza, and Anne Elise in Lehar’s Paganini. Always seeking to expand her repertoire, she added the role of Chrysothemis and Arabella. Critics raved that her portrayal was “shining” and that she “sang radiantly,” highlighting her “virginal blonde beauty.” She has had the great honor of studying the early operas of Verdi with renowned diva, Renata Scotto. Rebecca has performed with Central City Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Opera Festival of New Jersey, Harrisburg Opera Association, Mozart & Friends Opera Festival, ArtPark/Greater Buffalo Opera, Ashlawn-Highland Summer Opera Festival, and has sung extensively in France, Germany and Spain with the touring company, Teatro Lirico di Europa. With Aiken Productions, Miss Carr performed Amahl & the Night Visitors throughout the United States. She has also appeared in concert with the Ohio Valley Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, the Chautauqua Symphony, Bridgeton Symphony, and the Old York Road Symphony. Miss Carr’s concert repertoire includes the most beautiful of soprano literature: the “Vier Letzte Lieder” of Strauss, Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”, the Fourth Symphony of Mahler and Beethoven’s “Ah, perfido!” Oratorio works, recently performed, include Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Philadelphia’s highly acclaimed Choral Arts Society, the Creation, and Händel’s Messiah, among others. Most recently, Miss Carr made her Carnegie Hall debut as soloist in Vivaldi's Gloria. Other debuts were made at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, as a featured artist on the Family Concert series, and in concert with the Ocean City (NJ) Pops, and in recital on the Bucks County Performing Arts Center Concert Series. Rebecca divides her life between singing, jewelry design, and a deep commitment to introducing the Art of Opera to today’s youth and in the community. She currently coordinates programs with a number of organizations, and is thrilled to be the first operatic voice that thousands of young people will have had the opportunity to hear. She has been invited to Chautauqua Institution to present her class “What’s all the Screaming About: Opera for the Uninitiated” to adults this summer. Miss Carr has also combined her love of opera and beautiful things to launch a line of handmade artisan jewelry, Belle Pietre (Beautiful Stones) Jewelry - Stone Jewelry of Operatic Proportions. Each piece is inspired by, and named for an operatic heroine. 6/22/10 |