Carolyn Betty continues to distinguish herself as one of the new up and coming sopranos to watch.

This season, Ms Betty makes her debut at the Seattle Opera as Chrysothemis in Elektra. A graduate of the Pittsburgh Opera Center, Ms. Betty has appeared at the Pittsburgh opera as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte and Micaela in Carmen. As a student there, her roles included Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito, and Amore and Melanto in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. Other recent opera engagements have included Anna Maurrant in Kurt Weill's Street Scene, Nanny in Miss Havisham's Fire and Annina in La Traviata at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis; Vitellia and Anna Maurrant at the Wolf Trap Opera;  roles in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's productions of Aida, La Traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Susannah; and the title role of Vanessa and Fiordiligi at the Curtis Institute of Music ... read full bio

Carolyn Betty continues to distinguish herself as one of the new up and coming sopranos to watch.

This season, Ms Betty makes her debut at the Seattle Opera as Chrysothemis in Elektra. A graduate of the Pittsburgh Opera Center, Ms. Betty has appeared at the Pittsburgh opera as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte and Micaela in Carmen. As a student there, her roles included Vitellia in La Clemenza di Tito, and Amore and Melanto in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. Other recent opera engagements have included Anna Maurrant in Kurt Weill's Street Scene, Nanny in Miss Havisham's Fire and Annina in La Traviata at the Opera Theater of Saint Louis; Vitellia and Anna Maurrant at the Wolf Trap Opera;  roles in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's productions of Aida, La Traviata, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Susannah; and the title role of Vanessa and Fiordiligi at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Also an accomplished concert singer, Ms. Betty most recent engagements have included Dvorak's Moravian Duets with Iván Fischer and the National Symphony, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Dallas Symphony, and a concert version of Die Zauberflöte  at the Hollywood Bowl. Other past concert engagements  have included  Mendelsssohn's Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night's Dream and Rosalinde in selections from Die Fledermaus with the National Symphony Orchestra;  a concert performance of Götterdämmerung with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings Symphony with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; First Flowermaiden in Parsifal with Pierre Boulez, and Moravian Duets with Iván Fischer at the Los Angeles Philharmonic; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Mariss Jansons and the Pittsburgh Symphony;  Handel's Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony; and recitals with Stephen Blier with both The New York Festival of Song and Wolf Trap Opera.

A Wilmington, Delaware native, Ms. Betty was a winner of the 2002 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Her other awards include the 2006 George London/Kirsten Flagstad Memorial award, a 2004 Richard Tucker Study Grant, the 2000 Richard Gaddes Career Grant, a 2002 Sullivan Award, and a 2003 Shoshana Foundation Award.  She was also a finalist in the Seattle Opera's first International Wagner Competition