Name Carole Farley Spouse Jose Serebrier (m. 1969) | Role Singer ยท carolefarley.com | |
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Carole Farley is an American soprano and a principal singer at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Early life and education
Farley was born in Le Mars, Iowa. She graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in music. She spent the following academic year on a Fulbright scholarship at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. She is married to conductor Jose Serebrier.
Career
In 1975 Farley made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera as Mimi in La boheme. In 1977 she sang the title role in the Metropolitan Opera's premiere of Lulu. In the late 1970s and 1980s she was known for singing demanding roles such as Lulu and the solo role in Poulenc's La voix humaine.
Farley has been collaborating in recent years with contemporary American classical composers including Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, and Lowell Liebermann on multiple concert and recording projects.
Discography and Videography
Songs
The Digital Wonder Watch
Costa del Nowhere
Night Practice
Never More Will the Wind
O to Be a Dragon
I Strolled Across an Open Field
Full of Life Now
What if Some Little Pain
I Saw Eternity
I have climbed
Casino Paradise: Night Make My Day
For me there is no song
For everything turned false
The Last Days of Mankind
From wandering in the forest
The Crazy Women
This is a face
Dynamite Tonite: When We Built the Church
Since I have met you
I am not free
The Sage
The rabbit
Solveig's Cradle Song
Little Elegy
I Chant de Nourrice
II Jerome et Alissa
VIII Journal d'Alissa
V Chant de Resignation
VII Chant de Forgeron
V Moins je la vois
III Jerome et Alissa
V Jerome et Alissa