Biography
Soprano Andrea Carroll is the recent first prize winner of the 2012 Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, winner of the 2011 Sullivan Foundation award and grant, Second place winner in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the New England Region, and award winner in the 2011 Liderkranz Foundation Competition. Most recently, Andrea performed Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte “Andrea Carroll, who sang with a bright soprano and stole the show as Despina ” (New York Times) and Countess Ludmilla in Schubert’s Die Verschworenen (The Conspirators) both with Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Carroll’s other awards include the 2010 Washington D.C. District Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the Rodgers and Hammerstein Grant from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Foundation, the Fran Morgenstern Award from the ASCAP foundation, and a performance on NPR’s “From the Top.” This past summer, at 21, Andrea was the youngest artist in the Glimmerglass Festival’s Young Artist program, singing the role of Rose Segal and the cover of Elaine O’Neill in John Musto’s Later The same Evening. Fresh after graduating from the Manhattan School of Music, Andrea makes her professional debut at 22 in as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro this spring with Fort Worth Opera, then takes on the role of Zerlina in Don Giovanni with the prestigious Wolf Trap Opera Company this June-July. She will also perform in “From Bel Canto to Can Belto,” a recital with pianist Steven Blier. In the 2012-2013 season She will sing Musetta in La boheme as part of the Houston Grand Opera studio; and will make her Utah Opera debut in Florencia en el Amazonas.
Ms. Carroll is a past participant in Dicapo Opera’s Resident Artist Program, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artist Vocal Program. Most recently, she was a member of Seagle Music Colony’s young artist program where she performed Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She has also appeared with the Arcadia Opera, the Thomas Circle Singers, and the American Center for Puccini Studies. At the Manhattan School of Music, Ms. Carroll has been a featured soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Schubert’s Mass in G, Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ Requiem, and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. She has previously performed the roles of Beauty in Beauty and the Beast, Harriet in Emmeline, Mavis in Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.
