| Audrey Babcock | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Opera singer |
| Website: | https://www.audreybabcock.com/ |
Audrey Babcock is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer who has performed in many opera houses throughout the world. Babcock is best known for her title role in the opera Carmen.[1] She is represented by ADA Artist Management.
Babcock grew up near Culver City, California, and attended Hamilton High School. She first learned to play the flute, her mother also played the flute, when her elementary school started an orchestra program. She also learned how to play the piano, guitar, and ukulele.[2] She graduated with a BM in Voice from the Peabody Conservatory and also has an MFA in VoiceArts with concentrations in Producing and Dramaturgy from the California Institute of the Arts.[3]
Babcock sang the role of Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto for Boston Lyric Opera in March 2014.[4] She sang in the first professional staging of Daniel Crozier's opera With Blood, With Ink in April 2014 at the Fort Worth Opera.[5]
Babcock has frequently performed the title role in Bizet's opera Carmen, notably in 2008 at the San Antonio Opera, 2009 at the Utah Festival Opera and in 2012 at the Florentine Opera.[6] Carmen was her European debut in 2010 at the Savonlinna Opera Festival. In May 2014, she sang Carmen with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra.[7]
She sits as faculty at the California Institute of the Arts School of Music [8] and is an Associate Professor of Voice in the Department of Music at UNC Charlotte.[9]
Babcock, recording under the name Aviva, released an album called Songs for Carmen in 2007. The album is a collection of Ladino pieces sung in the Judo-Spanish language Lindo and Arabic and was inspired by the character Carmen.