AndreaCarroll
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About Andrea
American/Guatemalan/Austrian soprano Andrea Carroll’s 23/24 season includes returns to the Wiener Staatsoper as Norina in Don Pasquale, to Houston grand Opera as Nannetta in Falstaff, and to Teatro alla Scala as Norina in Don Pasquale. She will also make her Royal Opera House debut as Musetta in La bohème. On the concert stage, she debuts with Orchestre National de Lille as Musetta in La bohème, with the Ravinia Festival and Chicago Symphony Orchestra as Ilia in Idomeneo under the baton of James Conlon, and returns to San Diego Opera for a concert with tenor Joshua Guerrero.
Next season sees Andrea return to Teatro alla Scala as Woglinde in David’s Mcvicar’s new production of Das Rheingold under the baton of Christian Thielemann, and debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem, with the PKF Prague Philharmonia as Norina in Don Pasquale under the baton of Marco Armilliato, with Semperoper Dresden as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, and San Francisco Opera as Musetta in La Bohème. Future plans include her debut with Opéra national de Paris and returns to the Canadian Opera Company and The Metropolitan Opera.
In the 22/23 season Andrea made a series of house debuts, including Zerlina in Don Giovanni at The Metropolitan Opera, Micaëla in Carmen with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro for Canadian Opera Company, as well as returning to Palm Beach Opera as Nannetta in Falstaff.
Highlights of the 21/22 season included Andrea’s Teatro alla Scala debut as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, returns to the Wiener Staatsoper as Adina in L'elisir d'amore, to Houston Grand Opera as Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and to San Diego Opera as Beatriz in Daniel Catan’s La Hija de Rappaccini.
Work on the concert stage includes the world premiere of Johannes Maria Staud’s Jittering Directions in her debut with the Wiener Symphoniker, Brahms’ Requiem for her debut with The Cleveland Orchestra as well as Fauré’s Requiem & Columbine in Ethel Smyth’s Fête Galante in her debut with the Bard Music Festival.
Between 2015-2020 Andrea was a member of the ensemble at the Wiener Staatsoper, performing 15 leading roles for the company. Her roles included Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Nannetta in Falstaff, Gilda in Rigoletto, Musetta in La bohème, Norina in Don Pasquale, Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel, Woglinde in Das Rheingold/Götterdämmerung, and Stimme des Waldvogels in Siegfried, among others.
Notable operatic engagements have included Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with Dallas Opera, Adina in L'elisir d'amore with Den Norske Opera, Julie Jordan in Carousel, Maria in West Side Story, and Leïla in Les pêcheurs de perles with Houston Grand Opera, Musetta in La bohème with San Diego Opera, both Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande and Adèle in Le Comte Ory with Garsington Opera, Micaëla in Carmen with the Tokyo Philharmonic, Washington National Opera as Rosalba in Daniel Catan's Florencia en el Amazonas, and Julie Jordan in Carousel at Glimmerglass Opera. Andrea has created the roles of Mary Bailey in Jake Heggie's It's a Wonderful Life with Houston Grand Opera and both Kitty in Johannes Maria Staud's Die Weiden and Fatima in Johanna Doderer's Fatima at the Wiener Staatsoper.
Andrea studied at the Manhattan School of Music. As a member of Glimmerglass’ young artist program, she sang Rose Segal in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening. She spent two summers with Wolf Trap Opera where she sang Corinna in Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims and Zerlina in DoGiovanni. She spent two years as a member of the Houston Grand Opera Studio where she performed Adele in Die Fledermaus, Musetta in La Boheme, and Anne Egerman in A Little Night Music, among others. Andrea was a finalist in the 2015 Operalia competition, winner of the 2012 Eleanor McCollum Competition and a 2018 recipient of the Richard Tucker Career Grant.
Andrea is a native of Bethesda, Maryland and is currently based in Vienna, Austria.
Representation
Season Highlights
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Rigoletto final scene Christopher Maltman/Andrea Carroll
Credit: Wiener Staatsoper 2019
PlayingVenite, inginocchiatevi (Le nozze di Figaro)
Credit: Wiener Staatsoper, 2017
PlayingDon Pasquale (Andrea Carroll, Maxim Mironov, Alessandro Corbelli, Pietro Spagnoli, Evelino Pido)
Credit: Wiener Staatsoper
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Selected Repertoire
BERNSTEIN | Cunegonde (Candide) • West Side Story (Maria) |
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BIZET | Les pêcheurs de perles (Leïla) • Carmen (Micaëla) |
CATAN | Florencia en el Amazonas (Rosalba) • La hija de Rappaccini (Beatriz) |
DEBUSSY | Pelléas et Mélisande (Mélisande) |
DONIZETTI | L’elisir d’amore (Adina) • Don Pasquale (Norina) |
HEGGIE | It’s a Wonderful Life (Mary Bailey) |
HUMPERDINK | Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel) |
RODGERS | Carousel (Julie Jordan) |
ROSSINI | Le Comte Ory (Adèle) |
VERDI | Rigoletto (Gilda) • Falstaff (Nannetta) |
WAGNER | Siegfried (Waldvogel) • Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung (Woglinde) |
News
Press
STRAVINSKY - The Rake's Progress
Teatro Colón, Buenos AriesJul 2023...the American soprano Andrea Carroll got into the skin of the great character of Anne Trulove with her light voice, emitted with precision, tuning and beautiful registers
- Scherzo
- 20 July 2023
Andrea Carroll played Anne Trulove: her beautiful timbre and perfect delivery were ideal for her part. A truly triumphant evening for the three main protagonists
- The Musical Bee
- 22 July 2023
Soprano Andrea Carroll , sings Anne Trulove ("True Love"), Tom's fiancée, with surgical precision. Her voice, limpid and luminous, is as agile as a scalpel: her ease in the highest notes and the execution of octave leaps impresses. The vocal curves she draws are pure, both ingenuous and sensual.
- Olyrix
- 28 July 2023