A graduate of
Walt Whitman High School and the
Manhattan School of Music (MSM), Carroll grew up in
Bethesda, Maryland. She performed in several operas while a student at the MSM, including the Wife in Schubert's
Die Verschworenen and Despina in
Così fan tutte. She also studied voice with
Phyllis Curtin and
Stephanie Blythe at the
Tanglewood Music Center. She then served in the Young Artist Program at the
Glimmerglass Opera and for two years as a member of the Young Artist Program at the
Houston Grand Opera (HGO) before becoming a resident artist at the
Vienna State Opera (VSO). In 2012 Carroll made debuts with several American companies, including the HGO as Musetta in
La boheme, the
Fort Worth Opera as Susanna in
The Marriage of Figaro, and her debut at the
Wolf Trap Opera as Zerlina. She returned to Wolf Trap in 2013 to perform the role of Corrina in
Il viaggio a Reims and returned to the HGO to perform the roles of Adele in
Die Fledermaus and The Plaintiff in
Gilbert and Sullivan's
Trial by Jury. In 2014 Carroll performed four roles at the HGO: Countess Ceprano in
Rigoletto, Adele, Anne Engerman in
A Little Night Music, and Woglinde in
Das Rheingold. Also that year she portrayed Rosalba at the
Washington National Opera, Julie Jordan in
Carousel at the Glimmerglass Opera, Gilda in
Rigoletto at Opera Santa Barbara, and the Princess in Xavier Montsalvatge's
El Gato con Botas at the
Gotham Chamber Opera. In 2015 she was a finalist in the
Operalia, The World Opera Competition, made her debut at the
Seattle Opera as Echo in
Ariadne auf Naxos, performed Adina in ''
L'elisir d'amore'' with the Finger Lakes Opera, and returned to the Utah Opera as Leila in Bizet's
Les pêcheurs de perles before assuming her post in Vienna. In 2016 Carroll returned to the Vienna State Opera as Waldvogel in
Siegfried, Woglinde in
Götterdämmerung, and Papagena in
The Magic Flute. Later that year she performed the role of Julie Jordan at the HGO and created the role of Mary Hatch Bailey in the world premiere of
Jake Heggie's ''
It's a Wonderful Life''. ==References==