Clarice Carson

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Carson, Clarice
Clarice Carson (b Katz). Soprano, b Montreal 23 Dec 1936. Her teachers were Pauline Donalda and Jacqueline Richard (in Montreal) and Julia Drobner (in New York). She made her public debut at a Sarah Fischer Concert in Montreal in 1956. Her first operatic roles were with the Opera Guild of Montreal: the Lady-in-Waiting in Macbeth in 1959, Micaëla in Carmen in 1960, and Siebel in Faust in 1963. A season with the New York City Opera 1965-6 (where she made her debut as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro) and a tour 1966-7 with the Metropolitan Opera National Company (as the Countess, Violetta in La Traviata, and the Female Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia) led to three seasons 1967-70 at the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute. One of her most successful roles there was Musetta in La Bohème.

She frequently sang in the USA (Chicago, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Houston, San Francisco), Canada (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Quebec City, Edmonton, Stratford), and Europe (Barcelona, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Rouen, Nice). She returned to the Metropolitan 1975-6 to portray Fiordiligi in Cosi fan tutte. She sang the title role in Tosca for CBC TV in 1970 and for the COC in 1972, and was Elisabeth deValois in Don Carlos for the COC in 1977. She sang several leading roles for the Opéra du Québec: the title role in Suor Angelica and Giorgietta in Il Tabarro in 1971, Desdemona in Otello in 1973, and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly, and Alice Ford in Falstaff in 1974. In New York she has appeared in concert versions of such seldom heard operas as Berlioz' Les Troyens in 1972 and Pfitzner's Palestrina in 1973. Her bright lirico-spinto encompasses a wide repertoire ranging from Constanze in The Abduction from the Seraglio to Elsa in Lohengrin, Maddalena in Andrea Chenier, and the title roles in Aida, Salome, and Turandot. Her husband, in a second marriage, is Philon Ktsanes, a Greek-American tenor and vocal coach.

Author James B. McPherson


Bibliography

Zachary, Ralph. 'Best foot forward,' Opera News, 14 Feb 1970

Billington, Dave. 'Clarice Carson: eloquent museum keeper,' Montreal Gazette, 22 Sep 1973

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