March 3, 2018 33.32 Metropolitan Opera singer, music professor, recording artist, world-traveler, wife and mother, Carmen Balthrop has sung with the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco, Houston Grand Opera, in major opera houses of Venice and Berlin. She's appeared in recital in venues from the White House, Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as the major venues of Italy, the Netherlands, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, Beijing and Shanghai, China and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and Nassau,Bahamas. Her Deutche Grammophone recording of Treemonisha, was groundbreaking. In it, she recorded the title role of the first opera composed by an African American - Scott Joplin. The accomplished singer and teacher shares how listening to radio broadcasts of opera as a child had a profound impact on her desire to become a classical singer. She reveals important lessons and strategies that have served her through four decades of performing, traveling and teaching. Carmen also gives practical strategies for maintaining your voice, learning repertoire and the impact of self-care on longevity.
