Carol Yahr has had a distinguished international career,
singing all the major roles of the Wagnerian repertoire
including Isolde and Brünnhilde,
as well as Leonore in
Fidelio, both in the U.S. and abroad. She has performed
leading parts with the Metropolitan Opera, the Deutsche
Oper Berlin, Opéra de Paris (Bastille), the Glyndebourne
Festival, the Washington (D.C.) Opera and Seattle Opera
among many others. She has sung under the batons of
many of the world's finest conductors including James
Levine, Daniel Barenboim, Lorin Maazel, Roger
Norrington, Christophe Eschenbach and James Conlon.
In recent years, she has become a well-known voice
teacher and stage director with an active, private studio
in New York. She is also the artistic director of New York
Summer Opera Scenes, a summer program for aspiring
young singers where she directs opera scenes and
conducts master classes in audition techniques.
