CAROLE FARLEY

GRAMMY-nominated Carole Farley made her Metropolitan Opera debut at age 19 in the title role of Lulu (the Met’s first production), a role she has repeated over 100 times in four languages (German, English, French and Italian). Carole Farley returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the title role in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich, the only non-Russian in the cast. Her more than 100 performances of Salome in opera houses around the world have been highly acclaimed. As a regular guest of the world’s opera houses, she has performed at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera, Oper der Stadt Köln, New York City Opera, Welsh National Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and in Zürich, Düsseldorf, Paris, Torino, Lyon, Brussels, Nice and Florence, and many other cities. Highlights in her career include the Paris production of The Merry Widow and the Lyubimov-staged Lulu for Torino which was awarded the Abbiati Prize in Italy. She has claimed the role of Jenny in Mahagonny as her own following huge successes in Buenos Aires at Teatro Colón. Her performances of Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine and Menotti’s The Telephone have been filmed by Decca in co-production with the BBC, and now re-issued on DVD, a best-seller in the New York Times charts. This film, first shown on prime time television by the BBC, is her third for the Poulenc opera. The first two films were done in Sydney by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with the Sydney Symphony, one in French and one in English.

Carole Farley’s orchestral appearances have included most of the leading orchestras in the U.S. including the New York Philharmonic, Boston, Pittsburgh and Baltimore Symphonies, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Minnesota orchestras, and the National Symphony, with conductors Levine, Mehta, Skrowaszewski, Dorati, Kostelanetz, Zinman and Sir Andrew Davis. Her European orchestra concerts include the BBC Symphony, BBC Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, Orchestre National de France and the Radio Orchestras of Brussels, Paris, Torino, Cologne, Rome, The Hague, Helsinki and Barcelona with Levine, Boulez, Martinon, Bertini, Santi, Pritchard, Maazel, Downes, Salonen, Davis, Foster, Leitner, Fiore, and others. Last year she did a Latin American tour with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and an international tour with the National Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse, opera productions in France (Wozzeck and The Merry Widow), and in many European houses including Parsifal, Die Walküre, Salome and The Makropoulos Case. Her extensive discography includes over fifty titles, with multiple awards including the Grand Prix du Disque, Deutsche Schallplatten Award, Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Gramophone’s CD of the Month, GRAMMY nominations, and many others. She won the Grand Prix du Disque for her recording of Aubert Lemeland’s “Omaha, Chant pour les soldats morts.”

Recent recordings include three Kurt Weill CD’s, including the world premiere recording of “Der Neue Orpheus”, a best-seller CD of Ned Rorem songs with the composer at the piano, songs by Ernesto Lecuona, orchestral CD’s of songs by Richard Strauss, Edvard Grieg, Delius and arias by Tchaikovsky, as well as her CD of songs by William Bolcom, accompanied at the piano by the composer, recipient of two GRAMMY nominations in 2006 for Best Vocal Album, and Gramophone’s CD of the Month. She debuted at San Carlo Opera in Naples, Italy, in Leonard Bernstein’s opera Candide. Her newest CD, “Classic American Love Songs” Volume 1, was released in June 2007.

Recent touring has taken her to China for a 10-city tour as featured soloist with the Orchestra of the Americas as well as to the Bermuda Festival with the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra.

Ms Farley has recently established her own company “Carole Farley International Vocal Coaching” and is currently coaching and mentoring singers internationally. She is in demand for vocal masterclasses, which have included the NY Chamber Music Festival, Yale University, University of Miami, Long Island University, Florida International University, Cleveland Institute of Music, Royal Academy of Music in London, Hong Kong International Piano Competition (presented by Chopin Society Hong Kong), Academy of Music in Hong Kong and among many others in the US and abroad. In addition to creating a seminar/workshop on musical entrepreneurship for singers, which is currently touring, she has secured international artistic management for four singers, with two already having contracts for leading roles at the MET and other opera houses.

卡洛兒‧法莉

曾獲提名格林美獎的女高音卡洛兒‧法莉十九歲便首次登上紐約大都會歌劇院舞台，參與歌劇院的首齣製作、由莱文指揮的貝爾格經典歌劇《露露》，她憑露露一角一鳴驚人，後來更以四種語言（德語、英語、法語和意大利語）演出該劇逾一百次。法莉在紐約大都會歌劇院也曾飾演蕭斯塔科维奇的《姆欽斯克縣的麥克白夫人》中的麥克白夫人，而她在世界各地演出《莎樂美》合共一百多場，亦備受高度讚賞。作為歌劇院的常客，她曾到美國芝加哥歌劇院、加拿大國家歌劇院、德國科隆劇院、紐約市立歌劇院、威爾斯國家歌劇院、阿根廷科隆大劇院等藝術殿堂演出，也到過蘇黎世、杜塞爾多夫、巴黎、都靈、里昂、布魯塞爾、尼斯、佛羅倫斯等地表演。她曾在巴黎夏特萊劇院出演《風流寡婦》，並憑在都靈擔綱演出俄羅斯大導留比莫夫執導的《露露》而贏得意大利阿比亞蒂大獎。她在《瑪哈貢尼》中飾演的珍妮可說是她一大代表作，在阿根廷科隆大劇院屢次演出成功。法莉在浦朗克譜寫的歌劇《人聲》和梅諾第的《電話》中的演出，被英國迪卡唱片公司聯同英國廣播公司錄製成光碟，成為《紐約時報》排行榜的暢銷光碟之一。

法莉曾參與美國多個頂尖樂團的音樂會，包括紐約管弦樂團、芝加哥交響樂團、美國國家交響樂團，以及波士頓、匹茲堡、巴爾、費城、克里夫蘭、明尼蘇達等地的交響樂團，又和莱文、梅狄、史克羅瓦塞斯基、杜拉第、哥斯特蘭尼兹、津曼和安德魯戴維斯爵士等多位頂級指揮合作。歐洲方面，她曾和英國廣播公司交響樂團、英國廣播公司愛樂樂團、哈萊樂團、皇家愛樂樂團、皇家阿姆斯特丹音樂廳、法國國家樂團和巴黎、都靈、科隆、羅馬、海牙、赫爾辛基、巴塞羅那等的廣播交響樂團，與莱文、布萊茲、馬天龍、佩天妮、桑提、普里查德、馬素爾、道恩斯、沙羅倫、戴維斯、科士打、賴特納、夫爾瑞等指揮大師合作。去年，她與蘇格蘭室樂團到拉丁美洲巡迴演出，又參與法國圖盧茲國家交響樂團的世界巡迴音樂會，和到法國 (《胡錫克》和《風流寡婦》)及多個歐洲國家的歌劇院演出多齣名作，包括《帕西法爾》、《女武神》、《莎樂美》和《馬克羅普洛斯事件》。她灌錄了五十多張唱碟，更榮獲多項大獎如法國查理斯‧克羅斯學院的國際唱片大獎、德國樂評人大獎、《留聲機》雜誌的「編輯之選」及「本月大碟」、格林美獎提名和法國「金音獎」。她憑法國作曲家勒梅隆的《Omaha, Chant pour les soldats morts》一曲贏得國際唱片大獎。

法莉近期的錄音有寇特‧懷爾的三套大碟，和全球首度發行的《新奧菲斯》。她其他暢銷大碟包括《奈德‧羅倫精選》、《埃內斯托‧萊庫納歌曲集》、《理察‧史特勞斯的交響樂》、柴可夫斯基的詠嘆調、《威廉‧博爾康歌曲集》（博爾康由伴奏），並曾在2006 年獲格林美獎兩項最住主音大碟提名，及獲《留聲機》雜誌評為「本月大碟」。 她在意大利拿坡里首次演出伯恩斯坦的歌劇《康狄》，而最近期的大碟是2007年6月出版的《美國經典情歌》第一輯。

法莉近年曾聯同美洲管弦樂團到中國十個城市作獨唱演出，也與法國圖盧茲國家交響樂團參與百慕達音樂節。

法莉最近成立了以自己為名的國際歌唱學院，培育世界各地的歌唱家，也在環球多間專上學府和多項音樂節，如紐約室樂音樂節、耶魯大學、邁阿密大學、長島大學、佛羅里達國際大學、克里夫蘭音樂學院、英國皇家音樂院、香港國際鋼琴大賽、香港演藝學院教授大師班。除了舉辦為歌唱家而設的音樂事業研討會及工作坊外，她也為四位歌唱家接洽了國際經理人服務，其中兩位更已與紐約大都會歌劇院等歌劇院簽訂表演合約。