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Carol Yahr, Soprano
Carol Yahr has had a distinguished international career, singing
all the major roles of the Wagnerian repertoire including Isolde
and Brünnhilde, as well as Leonore in Fidelio, both in the U.S.
and abroad. She has performed leading parts with the
Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opéra de Paris
(Bastille), the Glyndebourne Festival, the Washington (D.C.)
Opera and Seattle Opera among many others. She has sung
under the batons of many of the world's finest conductors
including James Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Lorin Maazel, Roger
Norrington, Christophe Eschenbach and James Conlon.
In recent years, she has become a well-known voice teacher
and stage director with an active, private studio in New York. She
is also the artistic director of New York Summer Opera Scenes,
a summer program for aspiring young singers where she
directs opera scenes and conducts master classes in audition
techniques.