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 performed the role of Azucena in Il Trovatore last October with Taconic Opera, and returned this past April as Madam Flora (Baba) in The Medium and La Frugola in Il Tabarro. She will return this upcoming spring to perform La zia principessa in Suor Angelica. A member of Analog Arts Ensemble since 2003, she participated in the inaugural ARTSaha! Festival in Omaha, Nebraska in 2004. She returned in 2006 to participated in the festival’s re-imagining of Rameau’s Les Fetes d’Hebe and the short plays of Samuel Beckett. This August she perfromed with Analog in Baltimore featuring the music of Jason Taylor.
A student of W. Stephen Smith, Ms. Carr contributed to the Audio CD accompanying his new bookThe Naked Voice: a Wholistic Approach to Singing, released in March 2007.
Ms. Carr performed the role of Alisa in Lucia di Lammermoor with Opera Omaha in March 2004. She 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 Daughter by 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’sSusannah and Mother Jeanne in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites under the baton of Julius Rudel. She created the role of Berthe in Juilliard’s newly commissioned work Heloise and Abelard by 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 Screw as 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 Angelica in 2000.
Ms. Carr was the first-prize winner of the New York Vocal Artists competition in 2002. She was also a finalist in the 2002 MacAllister awards, and a regional finalist in the 2002 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.