Carroll Freeman

Carroll Freeman is an American operatic tenor, opera director, and music educator. He began his career as a prominent boy soprano in the 1960s. From the late 1970s through the mid 1990s he performed widely as a tenor with opera companies and orchestras in the United States. After that he worked as a director of opera productions with opera companies throughout North America. He is the former director of the opera program at the University of Tennessee and currently directs the opera program at Georgia State University. He is also the former Artistic Director of Mississippi Opera, Opera in the Ozarks at Inspiration Point, and opera studios at Knoxville Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Freeman was a boy soprano in the Columbus Boychoir, currently known as the American Boychoir, attending the school in Princeton, New Jersey. With that group he toured the United States, Canada, and Japan. Other performance opportunities as a child performer followed, including the lead role of Peter in “Peter, the Chorister” on the CBS-TV series Look Up And Live in 1966. His other work as a boy soprano included soloing in The Chichester Psalms with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Leonard Bernstein at Philharmonic Hall, performances as Jano in Jenufa with the New York Little Orchestra Society, the First Spirit in the acclaimed Beni Montressori production of The Magic Flute, starring Beverly Sills, John Reardon, conducted by Julius Rudel at New York City Opera (NYCO), and a solo appearance on NBC-TV The Bell Telephone Hour.

Freeman earned a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Master of Performing Arts in opera performance from Oklahoma City University. After summers with the Merola Program (San Francisco Opera) and Wolf Trap, he joined Texas Opera Theater, the touring arm of Houston Grand Opera. Subsequently, he became one of the first members of the Houston Opera Studio (David Gockley and Carlisle Floyd, co-directors) where he made his debut as the Male Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia in 1979. In 1977, he previously appeared as Little Bat in Floyd's Susannah at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, a company with which he subsequently performed often.

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