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Faculty
Lisbeth Brittain Carter holds a B.M.
Degree in Voice/Performance from The Boston Conservatory
of Music, where she studied voice with David Blair
McCloskey and Iride Pilla, and diction and opera
performance with John Moriarty. After winning the
Metropolitan Opera New England Regionals in 1972, she
received a scholarship from the Metropolitan for a year
of private voice study in London, England. After two
summers in the apprentice program at the Santa Fe Opera
in New Mexico, she entered the auditions program at the
American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz,
Austria.
This led to a series of long term engagements within the
German speaking countries. From 1976 until 1986, Ms.
Carter was resident lyric soubrette with the Pfalztheater
Kaiserslautern, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater der
Stadt Bonn, and the Dortmund Opera, where she performed
over forty different roles in both opera and operetta.
These included such roles as 'Sophie' in Der
Rosenkavalier, 'Musetta' in La Boheme,
'Zdenka' in Arabella, 'Micaela' in Carmen
and 'Papagena' in The Magic Flute, among others.
There were also frequent guest performances with opera
companies in Cologne, Heidelberg, Wiesbaden, Mainz, Ulm,
etc. Between 1980 and 1986 there were also numerous
appearances with Theater des Westens in Berlin, appearing
as 'Maria' in West Side Story, 'Laurie'
in Oklahoma and in various operettas. More performances
of West Side Story followed in Zurich and at the
Volksoper in Vienna, along with two seasons with the
Eutiner Sommerfestspiel.
In 1986 Ms. Carter joined the Hamburg production of
CATS, appearing as 'Jenny Anydots' and
'Grizabella', and working also as the voice coach
for the cast. She remained there over two years,
singing more than 600 performances. In 1998 she began
work on a cabaret performance of the songs of Stephen
Sondheim with her colleague Michael Dixon, which was
produced for a successful run at the Macadam Theater in
Hamburg. Until 1990, Ms. Carter remained in Europe,
teaching in Hamburg, Vienna, and Paris, where her
students regularly performed in opera and musicals. She
was the creator of the program of musical theater
training at the Stella Academy in Hamburg.
In 1990, Ms. Carter returned to the United States,
appearing in Threepenny Opera as 'Pirate Jenny'
for the Triangle Opera Theater. She received her M.M.
Degree in Performance and Pedagogy from Meredith College
in 1994, and remained there as Adjunct Professor of Voice
and Director of the Meredith Opera Theater until the fall
of 2003. In 2002 she joined the faculty of Elon
University and came to UNC Chapel Hill in the fall of
2003, as Adjunct Professor of Voice.
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