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Audrey Babcock
Born(1979-09-20)September 20, 1979
Los Angeles, California
OccupationOpera singer
Websitehttps://www.audreybabcock.com/

Audrey Babcock (born September 20, 1979) is an American mezzo-soprano and voice teacher. A native of California, she has had an active international career in operas and concerts since 2000. She is closely associated with the title role in Georges Bizet's Carmen and the part of Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto; parts she has sung with many opera companies. A former voice teacher at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she currently teaches on the music faculties of the California Institute of the Arts and California State University.

Early life and education

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The daughter of John Ross Babcock and Sandra H. Sternig-Babcock, Aubrey Jessica Babcok was born in Los Angeles, California on September 20, 1979.[1][2] Her mother worked as an educator with special needs children.[3] Her father was a Peabody Award and Emmy Award winning journalist who died in 1997 when she was 18 years old.[4]

Babcock grew up near Culver City, California, and attended Hamilton High School. She first learned to play the flute in her elementary school's orchestra program. She also learned how to play the piano, guitar, and ukulele.[5] She graduated with a BM in Voice from the Peabody Conservatory (PC) and an MFA in VoiceArts with concentrations in Producing and Dramaturgy from the California Institute of the Arts.[6] She portrayed Baba the Turk in the PC's 1999 student production of The Rake's Progress.[7] In 2001 she was the recipient of the Samuel C. Endicott Fund Award after placing fourth in the Palm Beach Opera vocal competition.[8] She was a regional finalist multiple times in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.[9]

Performance career

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In December 2000 Babcock was a soloist with the Kennett Symphony in their concert of holiday music entitled "Jubilate"[10] Early in her career she was a member of the young artist programs at the Opera North (2001),[11][12] Santa Fe Opera (2002),[13] Florida Grand Opera (2002),[14] Seattle Opera, and Opera Theatre of Lucca.[11] With Opera North she made her professional opera debut as Mercedes in Georges Bizet's Carmen in 2001;[12] a role she repeated at the Mobile Opera in 2002 with Cynthia Jansen in the title role.[15] In the summer of 2003 she appeared at the Wolf Trap Opera (WTO) as Berta in The Barber of Seville (with Sarah Coburn as Rosina) and as the First Dream in Rameau's Dardanus.[16] Roles she performed with the Florida Grand Opera included the title role in a truncated version of Carmen (2002),[14] Lola in Cavalleria rusticana (2002), and Fyodor in Boris Godunov (2002).[17]

In 2004 Babcock was a soloist in a concert of music by J. S. Bach and C. P. E. Bach with the Southwest Florida Chamber Symphony.[18] That same year she performed the role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with the Mobile Opera,[19] and appeared as both Rigo in Francesco Bartolomeo Conti's Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena[20] and Armelinde in Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon at the Caramoor Summer Music Festival.[21] In 2005 she returned to Mobile Opera to perform in a concert of excerpts from operas by Giuseppe Verdi,[22] and performed as a soloist with the Richmond Choral Society.[23] In 2006 she returned to the Florida Grand Opera as Maddalena in Verdi's Rigoletto (2006);[24] a role she later repeated at the Toledo Opera (2006)[25] Opera Carolina (2009),[26] Florentine Opera (2010),[27] Virginia Opera (2010),[28] Nashville Opera (2010),[29] Tulsa Opera (2010),[30] Opera Saratoga (2012), Opera Coeur d'Alene (2013),[31] Opera Omaha (2014),[32] Boston Lyric Opera (2014),[33] and Palm Beach Opera (2017).[34]

In 2007 Babcock performed the title roles in Tobias Picker's Thérèse Raquin with the Dicapo Opera Theatre[35] (alternating with Beverly O’Regan Thiele),[36] and Carmen at the Toledo Opera.[37] Carmen has remained a frequently performed role in Babcock's repertoire, and by 2025 she had given more than 250 performances of that role in opera houses internationally.[13]She performed the role for her European debut in 2010 at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.[13] Some of the organizations with whom she has appeared as Carmen include San Antonio Opera (2008),[38] the Utah Festival Opera (2009[39] & 2022), Wichita Grand Opera (2010),[40] Nashville Opera (2011),[41] Florentine Opera (2012),[42] the Lyrique-en-Mer Festival in Paris, France (2013),[43] Toledo Opera (2014),[44] Pensacola Opera (2014),[45] the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra (2014),[46] Opera Delaware (2015),[47] Anchorage Opera (2015[48] & 2023), Knoxville Opera (2015),[49] Fort Worth Opera (2017),[50] Dayton Opera (2017),[51] Mill City Summer Opera (2018),[52] the Bar Harbor Music Festival in Maine (2019),[53] Charlottesville Opera (2025),[54] and the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra (2025).[55] She was the stage director for Opera Memphis's 2025 production of Carmen in which she also starred.[56]

In 2008 Babcock portrayed the Second Lady in Mozart's The Magic Flute with Opera Pacific,[57] and Flora in La traviata at the Cincinnati Opera.[58] In 2009 she appeared as Dorabella in Così fan tutte with Opera Idaho,[59] Jo March in Little Women with Syracuse Opera,[60] Aldonza in Man of La Mancha with Shreveport Opera,[61] and Lola in Cavalleria rusticana with Utah Festival Opera (UFO).[62] She repeated the role of Jo March at the UFO in 2011,[63] and that same year reprised the part of the Second Lady at Spoleto Festival USA.[64] In the summer of 2011 she portrayed the Secretary of the Consulate in The Consul with the New Jersey State Opera;[65] a role she later repeated in 2017 at the Chicago Opera Theatre[66] and Long Beach Opera.[67]

In 2012 Bacock portrayed Erika in Samuel Barber's Vanessa with Sarasota Opera[68] and repeated the role of Suzuki with Tulsa Opera.[69] In 2013 she performed Mercedes in Carmen at the Dallas Opera.[70] She created the role of Maria Louisa in the world premiere of Daniel Crozier's With Blood, With Ink at the Fort Worth Opera in 2014.[71][72] She returned to Dallas in 2016 as Rosette in Jules Massenet's Manon.[73] That same year she portrayed Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the New Orleans Opera,[74] and performed the part of Regina in Jorge Sosa's La Reina at the Prototype Festival in New York City. In 2017 she returned to Opera Saratoga as Mrs. Mister in Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock; a production which resulted in a recording of the opera.[75]

In 2018 Babcock starred in Astor Piazzolla's María de Buenos Aires at the San Diego Opera.[76] In 2019 she portrayed Elizabeth Proctor in Robert Ward's The Crucible with Opera Santa Barbara,[77] and appeared in Beyond Carmen with Opera Delaware.[78] In 2020 she performed in Daniel Schnyder's Charlie Parker's Yardbird with the Seattle Opera.[79] In 2021 she was a soloist with Santa Monica’s Verdi Chorus.[80] In 2022 she starred in Zach Redler's The Falling and The Rising at the Arizona Opera,[81] and appeared as a soloist in Verdi's Requiem with the Reading Symphony Orchestra.[82] In 2023 she returned to the UFO as Amneris in Verdi's Aida[83] and Mrs. Gibbs in Ned Rorem's Our Town.[84] That same year she starred in Jack Perla's An American Dream at Opera Santa Barbara.[85] In 2024 she appeared with Utah Opera as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,[86] and as Flora in La Traviata with Opera Omaha.[87] In 2025 she performed the role of Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana with Opera Orlando.[88] She returned to the Anchorage Opera in 2026 as Amneris in Aida.

Educator

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Babcock is a former faculty member University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she was an Associate Professor of Voice in the Department of Music.[89][90] She currently teaches on the voice faculties of California Institute of the Arts and California State University (CSU); also serving as a member of the musical theatre faculty at CSU.[91]

Albums

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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.[6]

References

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  1. ↑ Audrey Jessica Babcock in the California Birth Index, 1905-1995
  2. ↑ Audrey J Babcock in the U.S., Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 2
  3. ↑ "Sternig-Babcock, Sandra". Los Angeles Times. December 9, 2018. p. B9.
  4. ↑ "John Babcock; Award-Winning TV Journalist". Los Angeles Times. February 3, 1997.
  5. ↑ Kohatsu, Gary (2021-01-22). "Local opera star the spotlight of today's MidDay at Grace". www.culvercitynews.org. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  6. 1 2 Angeles, Vocal Opera Los. "Vocal Opera Los Angeles". Vocal Opera Los Angeles. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
  7. ↑ "Time to Rethink Rake's Progress". The Baltimore Sun. November 16, 1999. p. 2F.
  8. ↑ "PB Opera Awards Top Vocalists". Palm Beach Daily News. April 28, 2001. p. 3.
  9. ↑ "WSSO to Perform Night at the Opera". Grand Haven Tribune. November 5, 2003. p. 12.
  10. ↑ "Holiday events, feature tours, performances". The Philadelphia Inquirer. December 1, 2000. p. B2.
  11. 1 2 "Music for the Soul and Spirit". The Santa Fe New Mexican. July 20, 2002. p. 27.
  12. 1 2 "Opera North Triumphs with Carmen". Valley News. August 18, 2001. p. C4.
  13. 1 2 3 Fordin, Spencer (April 12, 2025). "Audrey Babcock unlocks the secrets of Carmen". The Santa Fe New Mexican.
  14. 1 2 Johnson, Lawrence A. (April 6, 2002). "Young Artists Wrestle With Stripped-Down Version of Carmen". South Florida Sun Sentinel. p. 3D.
  15. ↑ Harrison, Thomas B. (October 26, 2002). "No Way Jose". The Mobile Register. p. 2.
  16. ↑ McLellan, Joseph (July 21, 2003). "A Wolf Trap Premiere For a Bygone Genius". The Washington Post.
  17. ↑ Johnson, Lawrence A. (March 16, 2002). "Florida Grand's Boris Just Not Good Enough". South Florida Sun Sentinel. p. 3D.
  18. ↑ "Bach Encores". News-Press. April 3, 2004. p. 20.
  19. ↑ "Butterfly One of Opera's Most Popular Works". The Mobile Register. October 17, 2004. p. 79.
  20. ↑ "Making Overtures". Greenwich Time. July 21, 2004. p. B6.
  21. ↑ "Cendrillon Casts a Spell at Caramoor". The Journal News. July 20, 2004. p. 25.
  22. ↑ Harrison, Thomas B. (September 25, 2005). "Night In the Tropics: Mobile Opera Overcomes Swampy Saenger with Viva Verdi". The Mobile Register. p. 2.
  23. ↑ "Choral Society Will Set Poems to Music". Staten Island Advance. April 15, 2005. p. D5.
  24. ↑ "All Ends Badly, and That's Good". The Miami Herald. March 18, 2006. p. 4E.
  25. ↑ "Area Opera Offerings Continue to Improve". The Toledo Blade. September 14, 2008. p. H15.
  26. ↑ "Singing, Conducting Production's Force". The News and Observer. October 4, 2009. p. 20.
  27. ↑ "An imaginative Florentine Rigoletto". Urban Milwaukee. May 22, 2010.
  28. ↑ Shulson, John (November 10, 2010). "Off-Stage Drama Misses It Mark". The Virginia Gazette. p. 1C.
  29. ↑ Donnell, Evans (April 12, 2010). "Verdi's Rigoletto Provides Tasty Treat". The Tennessean. p. B2.
  30. ↑ "Rigoletto Wrenches at Emotions While Projecting Them Too". Tulsa World. March 1, 2010. p. D2.
  31. ↑ "Rigoletto Gets New Setting". The Spokesman-Review. September 13, 2013. p. C12.
  32. ↑ "Rigoletto". Opera Omaha. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  33. ↑ "Rigoletto". Boston Theatre. Archived from the original on February 14, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  34. ↑ "Palm Beach Opera Stages Outstanding Rigoletto". Palm Beach Daily News. March 12, 2017. p. A6.
  35. ↑ "Audrey Babcock". Backstage. Retrieved April 23, 2026.
  36. ↑ Midgette, Anne (February 19, 2007). "Some Advice for Spurned Lovers: Decline Invitations for Boat Trips". The New York Times.
  37. ↑ Vallongo, Sally (October 28, 2007). "Toldeo Opera Opens New Season with Carmen". The Toledo Blade. p. 1, section Arts.
  38. ↑ Laster, Jennifer (September 26, 2008). "S.A. Native Takes Lead Role in Carmen". San Antonio Express-News. p. 15H.
  39. ↑ "Festival Opera offerings are stellar". Deseret News. July 19, 2009.
  40. ↑ "Carmen Nice End to Opera Season". The Wichita Eagle. March 29, 2010. p. 24.
  41. ↑ Donnell, Evans (April 16, 2011). "Nashville Opera Stages Carmen with Spice". The Tennessean. p. B6.
  42. ↑ Schmidt, Elaine (October 27, 2012). "Florentine Opera shows energy in traditional Carmen". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Archived from the original on 29 October 2012. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
  43. ↑ "Gala". The Coeur d'Alene Press. August 9, 2013. p. 24.
  44. ↑ "Toledo Opera Gala Puts Divas In Spotlight". Sentinel Tribune. February 10, 2014. p. 6.
  45. ↑ "Carmen Is an Impressive Showcase of Opera's Talent". Pensacola News Journal. January 17, 2014. p. E6.
  46. ↑ Leslie Lake (May 7, 2014). "Symphony caps off 74th season with Carmen". The Hour.
  47. ↑ "Style Files: Bohemian Gypsy, or Maybe Cowboy Goth". The News Journal. May 3, 2015. p. A2.
  48. ↑ Dunham, Mike (October 25, 2015). "Good Singing, Staging Produce Solid, Steely Carmen". Anchorage Daily News. p. 15.
  49. ↑ McRary, Amy (February 8, 2015). "Carmen In Control". The Knoxville News-Sentinel. p. E1.
  50. ↑ "Fort Worth Opera Festival". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. April 21, 2017. p. C3.
  51. ↑ Moss, Meredith (April 30, 2017). "Why We Love Carmen". Dayton Daily News. p. E1.
  52. ↑ "Carmen in Ruins". Star Tribune. July 10, 2018. p. E3.
  53. ↑ "Music Festival Offers a Variety of Events". Ellsworth American. June 27, 2019. pp. 8, 41.
  54. ↑ "Opera Flamenco". The Daily Progress. July 15, 2025. p. A3.
  55. ↑ "From Gladiators to Private Dancers". The Sioux City Journal. February 17, 2024. p. A13.
  56. ↑ Salazar, David (August 14, 2024). "Opera Memphis Unveils 2024-25 Season". Opera Wire.
  57. ↑ Pasles, Christ (January 25, 2008). "Magic Flute on a High Note". The Los Angeles Times. p. E2.
  58. ↑ Saidel, Burt (July 29, 2008). "$1 million La Traviata a 1st class production". The Oakwood Register. Vol. 17, no. 31.
  59. ↑ "Opera Idaho's Così fan tutte". The Idaho Statesman. March 6, 2009. p. 17, section Scene.
  60. ↑ Landesman, Stephen G. (May 1, 2009). "Syracuse Debut's Adamo's Little Women". The Ithaca Journal. p. 20.
  61. ↑ "Shreveport Opera Serves Man of La Mancha". The Shreveport Times. October 27, 2009. p. 6C.
  62. ↑ Coleman, Robert (July 14, 2009). "Utah Festival Opera: Celebrating Italy's operatic tradition". The Salt Lake Tribune.
  63. ↑ Newton, Catherine Reese (March 13, 2011). "Opera review: 'Little Women' has big heart". The Salt Lake Tribune.
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  65. ↑ "Opera New Jersey Season in Full Swing with Consul Opening". The Trenton Times. July 15, 2011. p. G12.
  66. ↑ "Singer Carries COT's Consul". Chicago Tribune. November 6, 2017. p. 4, section 4.
  67. ↑ "In Review: Babcock and Livengood impress in Long Beach Opera's The Consul". WIX. October 20, 2017.
  68. ↑ "Seldom Seen Vanessa a Rare Treat". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. March 12, 2012. p. 17.
  69. ↑ Watts, Jr., James D. (April 26, 2012). "Season's End". Tulsa World. p. 8, Section Arts.
  70. ↑ "Singers, Director Breath Life into Bizet's Classic". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. October 30, 2013. p. D10.
  71. ↑ Bailey, Marilyn (April 13, 2014). "Fort Worth Opera: A Stage Coup". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. pp. E1, E5.
  72. ↑ Heidi Waleson (May 12, 2014). "A Pathbreaking Nun Forced Into Silence". The Wall Street Journal.
    - Scott Cantrell (April 26, 2014). "A 17th-century nun raises touchy questions in Fort Worth opera". The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on May 24, 2014.
  73. ↑ "Opera review: A rough-and-tumble 'Manon' at the Dallas Opera". Dallas News. March 5, 2016.
  74. ↑ "N.O. Opera seduces audiences with a sexy Don Giovanni". The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. October 9, 2016.
  75. ↑ Henry, Alan (July 9, 2018). "New Recording Of Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock From Opera Saratoga Now Available". broadwayworld.com.
  76. ↑ "Riveting Maria de San Diego". Opera Today. February 2018.
  77. ↑ "Operatically Bewitched". Santa Barbara News-Press. April 26, 2019. p. 7, section Scene.
  78. ↑ "Beyond Carmen". Opera Delaware. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  79. ↑ Downey, Roger (February 26, 2020). "Charlie Parker's Yardbird at Seattle". Opera Today.
  80. ↑ "The Verdi Chorus Returns Triumphant to Live Performance". The Canyon Chronicle. November 12, 2021. p. 11.
  81. ↑ "Arizona Opera Opens Season With Crossover Show". Arizona Daily Star. Oct 26, 2022. p. B3.
  82. ↑ "Reading Symphony Orchestra - Verdi's Requiem". The Morning Call. May 19, 2022. p. 14.
  83. ↑ "Mezzo-Soprano Audrey Babcock to return next summer in 'Aida'". 25 July 2022. Retrieved 2023-07-14.
  84. ↑ "PAST SEASONS UTAH FESTIVAL OPERA & MUSICAL THEATRE". Utah Festival Opera. 8 March 2020. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  85. ↑ Woodard, Josef (February 13, 2023). "Opera Santa Barbara Presents 'An American Dream'". Santa Barbara Independent.
  86. ↑ "Utah Opera opens season with a delightfully demented "Sweeney Todd"". Utah Arts Review. October 14, 2024.
  87. ↑ "La Traviata". Opera Omaha. Retrieved April 24, 2026.
  88. ↑ "Opera Orlando Double Bill". The Orlando Sentinel. April 27, 2025. p. A7.
  89. ↑ "Audrey Babcock". 14 August 2019.
  90. ↑ Infanzon, Vanessa (April 24, 2022). "Violins of Hope Returns With More to Tell About Holocaust". The Charlotte Observer. p. C1.
  91. ↑ "THE HERB ALPERT SCHOOL OF MUSIC AT CALARTS School of Music".
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