Audrey Babcock

Audrey Babcock is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer who has performed in many opera houses throughout the world. Babcock is best known for her title role in the opera Carmen.[1]

Audrey Babcock
NationalityAmerican
OccupationOpera singer

She performed the Lola in Cavalleria rusticana at the Washington Concert Opera.

Early life & education

Babcock grew up near Culver City, California, and attended Hamilton High School. She first learned to play the flute, her mother also played the flute, when her elementary school started an orchestra program. She also learned how to play the piano, guitar, and ukulele.[2]

Babcock sang the role of Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto for Boston Lyric Opera in March 2014.[3] She sang in the first professional staging of Daniel Crozier's opera With Blood, With Ink in April 2014 at the Fort Worth Opera.[4]

Babcock has frequently performed the title role in Bizet's opera Carmen, notably in 2008 at the San Antonio Opera, 2009 at the Utah Festival Opera and in 2012 at the Florentine Opera.[5] Carmen was her European debut in 2010 at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. In May 2014, she sang Carmen with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra.[6]

She sits as faculty at the California Institute of the Arts School of Music.[7]

References
  1. "Mezzo-Soprano Audrey Babcock to return next summer in 'Aida'". Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  2. Kohatsu, Gary (2021-01-22). "Local opera star the spotlight of today's MidDay at Grace | Culver City News". www.culvercitynews.org. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  3. "Rigoletto". Boston Theatre. Archived from the original on February 14, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  4. Heidi Waleson (May 12, 2014). "A Pathbreaking Nun Forced Into Silence". The Wall Street Journal.
    - Scott Cantrell (April 26, 2014). "A 17th-century nun raises touchy questions in Fort Worth opera". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on May 24, 2014.
  5. Schmidt, Elaine (October 27, 2012). "Florentine Opera shows energy in traditional Carmen". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  6. Leslie Lake (May 7, 2014). "Symphony caps off 74th season with Carmen". The Hour.
  7. "THE HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC AT CALARTS School of Music".


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