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American soprano Carter Scott received tremendous critical and audience acclaim when she stepped into the title role of Turandot with Fort Worth Opera in May 2008. Scott Cantrell of the Dallas Morning News reported: “Major companies struggle to cast both Turandot and the besotted Calaf. Both roles call for enormous vocal power, and it's usually bought at the price of rawness, if not downright ugliness.
“But Carter Scott, a late replacement, is as thrilling a Turandot as you'll hear anywhere. At first, her soprano seems almost too luxuriously creamy. But when emotional and musical pitch rise the voice gathers an amazing intensity that blazes across the orchestra in full cry.
“She's also the rare Turandot who actually looks as though she could lure men to their deaths. When her carefully constructed defenses crumple around her, we genuinely feel her pain.”
Turandot has become one of Ms. Scott’s signature roles; she has sung it over 40 times in Europe and South Korea, as well as having covered it at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Santa Fe Opera.
The 2010-2011 season will include Carter Scott's official stage debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago as the Lady in Waiting (also covering Lady Macbeth) in Macbeth. Future seasons see her return to Fort Worth Opera.
In Summer of 2009, Ms. Scott sang title roles in Turandot with South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Tosca with Des Moines Metro Opera and Chautauqua Opera. She began the fall covering the title role in Tosca at Lyric Opera of Chicago, before making her stage debut at Washington National Opera as the 3rd Norn (also covering Gutrune) in concert performances of Götterdämmerung. Ms. Scott concluded the 2009-2010 season with concert performances of Turandot for Piedmont Opera.
In the 2007-2008 season, Ms. Scott returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago to cover the Färberin in Die Frau ohne Schatten; she was there the previous season to cover the title roles in Salome and Turandot. Other engagements in the 07-08 season included Leonora in La forza del destino with Knoxville Opera, and Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana with San Diego Opera.
Carter Scott has sung other major dramatic soprano roles around the world. Highlights of her career include Abigaille in Nabucco for her European debut with the Dortmund Opera in 2003-2004 season, Ježibaba in Rusalka at San Diego Opera (opposite Renée Fleming), her first performances of the title role in Aida with Syracuse Opera, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth with Syracuse Opera, Opera Roanoke and Washington National Opera (cover), and the title role in Tosca with Fort Worth Opera.
She has sung highlights from Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with the Mobile Symphony, where she has also sung the title role in Tosca and Santuzza in Cavelleria Rusticana. Ms. Scott was engaged by the Bremen Opera for 24 performances of the title role in Turandot in the 2004-2005 season. She recently returned to Germany for Die Walküre with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
Having sung for several years as a mezzo-soprano, Ms. Scott began her move to the soprano repertoire as Nedda in Pagliacci with Mobile Opera. She also appeared with the Jarvis Zarzuela Festival in Napa Valley in the title role of Luisa Fernanda. In addition, she has performed with numerous companies throughout the country including Opera Pacific, Opera San Jose, Virginia Opera, Pensacola Opera, and Piedmont Opera. She made her Carnegie Hall debut singing Mozart’s Laudate Dominum and Chilcott’s Jubilate.
Ms. Scott is a recipient of many distinguished awards and grants, including the 1996 William Matheus Sullivan Award, as well as awards from the Metropolitan Opera, Southern California Opera Guild, and the Luciano Pavarotti Vocal Competition. Her vocal training includes study at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of California, the Music Academy of the West, the Tanglewood Festival, and the American School of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. |
