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.
