Clarice Carson

Clarice Carson (born Clarice Katz ; born December 23, 1929 in Montreal ; † May 2, 2015 in Toronto ) was a Canadian opera singer (soprano).

Carson studied with Pauline Donalda and Jacqueline Richard in her hometown and with Julia Drobner in New York . Her first public appearance was at a Sarah Fischer concert in Montreal in 1956. She made her operatic debut with Pauline Donalda's Opera Guild of Montreal as Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth . She also appeared with the Opera Guild as Micaëla in Bizet's Carmen (1960) and Siébel in Gounod's Faust (1963).

She signed her first major contract for the 1965-66 season with the New York City Opera , where she made her debut as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro . After a tour with the Metropolitan Opera National Company , she was engaged at the Metropolitan Opera from 1967 to 1970 . She had success there as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and as Musetta in Puccini's La Bohème .

In the following years she sang several leading roles at the Opéra du Québec , such as the title role in Suor Angelica and Giorgietta in Il tabarro by Puccini (1971), Desdemona in Otello by Verdi (1973), Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni , the Cio-Cio San in Piccini's Madama Butterfly and Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff (1974). In New York she appeared in concert performances of the operas Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz (1972) and Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner (1973).

Carson appeared on CBC television in 1970 in the title role of Tosca with Louis Quilico , and in 1972 she sang the same role for the Canadian Opera Company . In the 1975–76 season she sang Fiodiligi in Così fan tutte at the Metropolitan Opera . Her repertoire also included roles such as Constanze in Die Entführung aus dem Serail , Elsa in Lohengrin , Maddalena in Andrea Chénier and the title roles in Aida , Salome and Turandot .

Carson has guested in numerous opera houses in the USA (Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Houston, San Francisco), Canada (Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, Québec City, Edmonton, Stratford) and Europe (Milan, Barcelona, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Rouen, Nice) . She has performed with singers such as Luciano Pavarotti , Placido Domingo and Léopold Simoneau and under conductors such as Zubin Mehta , Eugene Ormandy , James Levine and Richard Bonynge . In 1998 she was inducted into the Canadian Opera Hall of Fame , and in 2013 the National Opera America Center in New York made her the first Canadian singer to dedicate a plaque to her. After retiring from the stage in 1986, she served on the board of the International Resource Center for Performing Artists (IRCPA). Carson was married to Bill Ornstein , with whom she had two children, and to the Greek-American tenor Philon Ktsanes .

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SURNAME	Carson, Clarice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Katz, Clarice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 2015
Place of death	Toronto