Farley, Carole Ann
Farley, Carole Ann
Farley, Carole Ann, talented American soprano;b. Le Mars, Iowa, Nov. 29, 1946. She studied at the Ind. Univ. School of Music (Mus.B., 1968), with Reid in N.Y., and on a Fulbright scholarship with Schech at the Munich Hochschule für Musik (1968–69). In 1969 she made her debut at the Linz Landestheater and also her U.S. debut at N.Y.’s Town Hall; subsequently appeared as a soloist with major orchs. of the U.S. and Europe, and sang with the Welsh National Opera (1971–72), the Cologne Opera (1972–75), the Strasbourg Opera (1975), the N.Y. City Opera (1976), and the Lyons Opera (1976–77). She made her formal Metropolitan Opera debut in N.Y. as Lulu on March 18, 1977, and continued to sing there in later seasons; she also sang at the Zurich Opera (1979), the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Diisseldorf (1980–81; 1984), the Chicago Lyric Opera (1981), the Florence Maggio Musicale (1985), and at the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires (1989). In addition to her esteemed portrayal of Lulu, which she essayed over 80 times in various operatic centers, she also sang Poppea, Donna Anna, Violetta, Massenet’s Manon, Mimi, and various roles in Richard Strauss’s operas. She married Jose Serebrier in 1969.
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