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Carroll Freeman is an American operatic tenor, opera director, and music educator. He began his career as a prominent boy soprano in the 1960s. From the late 1970s through the mid 1990s he performed widely as a tenor with opera companies and orchestras in the United States. After that he worked as a director of opera productions with opera companies throughout North America. He is the former director of the opera program at the University of Tennessee, and currently directs the opera program at Georgia State University. He is also the former Artistic Director of the Mississippi Opera, the Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, and opera studios at the Knoxville Opera and the Des Moines Metro Opera. ==Life and career== Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was a boy soprano in the Columbus Boychoir and attended the group's associated school in Columbus Ohio. With that group he toured the United States, Canada, and Japan. Other performance opportunities as a child performer followed, including the lead role of Peter in “Peter, the Chorister” on the CBS-TV series ''Look Up And Live'' in 1966. His other work as a boy soprano included being a soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, performances with the New York City Opera (NYCO), and an appearance on ''The Bell Telephone Hour''.〔 Carroll earned a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master of Performing Arts in opera performance from Oklahoma City University.〔 He then joined the Young Artist Program at the Houston Grand Opera where he made his debut as the Male Chorus in Britten's ''The Rape of Lucretia'' in 1979. He had previously appeared as Little Bat McLean in Floyd's ''Susannah'' at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City in 1977. In 1980 Carroll portrayed Leo Hubbard in Marc Blitzstein's ''Regina'' at the HGO. In June 1982 he created the role of Katz in the world premiere of Stephen Paulus's ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL). He subsequqently performed the role of Katz at the Edinburgh Festival and the Boston Lyric Opera. In 1984 he returned to the OTSL to portray Johnny Inkslinger in Britten's ''Paul Bunyan''. In October 1852 he made his first appearance as an adult with the NYCO as Alfredo in Verdi's ''La traviata'' with Diana Soviero as Violetta. He subsequently returned to the NYCO as Fritz in Jacques Offenbach's ''La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein''. In December 1982 he appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Houston Symphony as Leandro in Ferruccio Busoni's ''Arlecchino''. In 1984 he appeared as Zadok the High Priest and the Levite in Handel's ''Solomon'' with Musica Sacra. In 1990 Freeman recorded the role of Don Ottavio in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' for television with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, and conductor Craig Smith for Decca. The work reset ''Don Giovanni'' in 1990s South Bronx, was directed by Peter Sellars, and was broadcast internationally on PBS' ''Great Performances'' and BBC Television. Carroll's other performance credits as a tenor include appearances in leading roles with the Atlanta Opera, the Baltimore Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, the Kentucky Opera, the Michigan Opera Theater, the Minnesota Opera, the New Orleans Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Pacific, the Portland Opera, and the San Diego Opera among others. He has also appeared in concerts with the Dallas Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony among others.〔 Freeman has directed operas for the El Paso Opera, the Lyric Opera of Dallas, Knoxville Opera, Mobile Opera, Nashville Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Phoenix Metropolitan Opera, and Tulsa Opera among others.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carroll Freeman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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