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American soprano, and much loved principal singer at the Metropolitan Opera, Carole Farley has enjoyed a thriving musical career since her debut as Mimì in La bohème in 1975. She is greatly admired for her evocative portrayal of characters such as Lulu, Salome, Cio-Cio San, Tosca, Kundry, Violetta, and Constanze, but is particularly revered for her pioneering interpretation of non-traditional operatic roles.

Having devoted much of her career to newer music, Farley has sung works from the manuscripts of Janáček, Schoenberg, Weill, Britten, Rorem, Bernstein, Bolcom, Ernesto Lecuona, Aubert Lemeland, and the conductor José Serebrier (to whom she is married). Her ecclectic catalogue of recordings includes vocal dalliances with the music of Delius, Satie, Fauré, Debussy, Grieg, Milhaud, Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, and Gershwin, to name but a mere few. http://finalnotemagazine.com/articles/carole-farley/