Described as “sunny”, “supple” and “soaring,” Boston-based soprano Carley DeFranco is known for her committed dramatic portrayals. Highlights of her 2022-23 season include Britten’s Les Illuminations and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Emmanuel Music), Brahms’ Requiem (Falmouth Chorale), Mozart’s Requiem (Symphony New Hampshire), Debussy Sirènes (Lorelei Ensemble & Boston Ballet) and Christopher Tin’s Lost Birds (VOCES 8).
Her 2021-22 season brought performances with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Cecilia, Boston Art Song Society, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Monadnock Music Festival and the American Soloists Ensemble. Carley has sung 80 cantatas with Emmanuel Music in their Bach Cantata Series and has been a featured soloist in Harbison’s Chorale Cantata, St. John Passion, Magnificat, and Mass in B Minor. She was Angelo in Emmanuel’s staged recording of La Resurrezione and Lucy Lockit in Britten's The Beggar’s Opera.
An avid concert soloist, Carley has performed with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Con Brio Choral Society, Heritage Chorale, North Carolina Master Chorale, Providence Singers and Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra. Her operatic credits include Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) with Boston Opera Collaborative, The Rose (The Little Prince) with NEMPAC Opera Project, Lucy Lockit (Britten The Beggar’s Opera) with Emmanuel Music, the title role in Alcina with Opera del West and many premieres in Boston Opera Collaborative’s critically-acclaimed festival of ten-minute operas: Opera Bites. She is a member of the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.
Carley has been a Scholar with VOCES 8, a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel Music and a Fellow with American Bach Soloists. She is the Director of After School Music at Dexter Southfield. Originally from New York State, Carley lives in Somerville, where she happily maintains her voice studio. www.carleydefranco.com
Her 2021-22 season brought performances with Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Cecilia, Boston Art Song Society, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, True Concord Voices & Orchestra, Oregon Bach Festival, Monadnock Music Festival and the American Soloists Ensemble. Carley has sung 80 cantatas with Emmanuel Music in their Bach Cantata Series and has been a featured soloist in Harbison’s Chorale Cantata, St. John Passion, Magnificat, and Mass in B Minor. She was Angelo in Emmanuel’s staged recording of La Resurrezione and Lucy Lockit in Britten's The Beggar’s Opera.
An avid concert soloist, Carley has performed with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Con Brio Choral Society, Heritage Chorale, North Carolina Master Chorale, Providence Singers and Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra. Her operatic credits include Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) with Boston Opera Collaborative, The Rose (The Little Prince) with NEMPAC Opera Project, Lucy Lockit (Britten The Beggar’s Opera) with Emmanuel Music, the title role in Alcina with Opera del West and many premieres in Boston Opera Collaborative’s critically-acclaimed festival of ten-minute operas: Opera Bites. She is a member of the Boston Lyric Opera Chorus.
Carley has been a Scholar with VOCES 8, a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Fellow with Emmanuel Music and a Fellow with American Bach Soloists. She is the Director of After School Music at Dexter Southfield. Originally from New York State, Carley lives in Somerville, where she happily maintains her voice studio. www.carleydefranco.com
