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Carmen Arlene Balthrop (May 14, 1948 – September 5, 2021) 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. She performed in the 2000 production of Handel's Agrippina and in the 2010 premiere of Frank Proto's Shadowboxer.




= Other major roles

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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.




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






External links


Carmen Balthrop discography at Discogs
Carmen Balthrop at IMDb

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• Deaths in September 2021
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• Scott Joplin
• Treemonisha
• Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
• Chronological list of operatic sopranos
• Agrippina (opera)
• 2021 in classical music
• Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions