Carmen Balthrop
{{Short description|American opera singer (1948–2021)}}
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Carmen Arlene Balthrop (May 14, 1948 – September 5, 2021)[https://operawire.com/obituary-american-soprano-carmen-balthrop-dies-at-73/ Obituary: American Soprano Carmen Balthrop Dies at 73], operawire.com. Accessed January 21, 2023.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/carmen-balthrop-dead/2021/09/15/4d2fff5e-1559-11ec-b976-f4a43b740aeb_story.html Carmen Balthrop, renowned opera singer and teacher, dies at 73], washingtonpost.com. Accessed January 21, 2023. was an American operatic soprano from Washington, D.C.
Career
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 served as 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1068293|title=Carmen Balthrop|website=NPR.org|access-date=2018-10-18}} She performed in the 2000 production of Handel's Agrippina and in the 2010 premiere of Frank Proto's Shadowboxer.
=Other major 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
- Aurore in A Bayou Legend by William Grant Still
Death
She died on September 5, 2021, aged 73. Her funeral was held at Immaculate Conception Church in Washington DC.{{Cite web|title=Soprano Carmen Balthrop, Voice and Opera Professor, Dies at 73|url=https://music.umd.edu/news/soprano-carmen-balthrop-voice-and-opera-professor-dies-73|access-date=2021-09-16|website=music.umd.edu|language=en}}
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
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External links
- {{Discogs artist|Carmen Balthrop}}
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Category:American operatic sopranos
Category:University of Maryland, College Park faculty
Category:Singers from Maryland
Category:Classical musicians from Maryland
Category:20th-century African-American women singers
Category:20th-century American women opera singers
Category:African-American women opera singers