Carmen Balthrop

Carmen Arlene Balthrop (May 14, 1948 – September 5, 2021) was an American operatic soprano from Washington, D.C.

Career Balthrop graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1971. She would later serve as a professor of voice there and was inducted into the University of Maryland Alumni Association's Hall of Fame in 1995.

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte She performed in the 2000 production of Handel's Agrippina and in the 2010 premiere of Frank Proto's Shadowboxer.

Other major roles Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly Violetta in La traviata Micaela in Carmen Liu in Turandot Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni Poppea in L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi Susannah in Susannah by Carlisle Floyd Treemonisha in Treemonisha by Scott Joplin Aurore in A Bayou Legend by William Grant Still

Death She died on September 5, 2021, aged 73. Her funeral was held at Immaculate Conception Church in Washington DC.

Discography Scott Joplin's Treemonisha Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea John Knowles Paine's Mass Leslie Burrs' Vanqui The Art of Christmas, Volume I The Art of Christmas, The Original