Iowa native, Lauren Carroll, soprano, is a blossoming artist quickly garnering major industry attention.
Houston Press hailed her as, “impressive and flawless in execution”. Ms. Carroll is spending her 25/26 season as a First Year Cafritz Young Artist with the Washington National Opera. In her first year, she will make debuts at The Kennedy Center singing Abigail Williams (The Crucible), Priestess (Aida), The Rose (The Little Prince), and Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro). Carroll will also make an exciting debut singing scenes as Mimì from La bohème, with the Alexandria Symphony. Ms. Carroll also made an exciting debut of scenes from La Bohème as Mimì and Violetta in La traviata, under the baton of Maestro David Neely with the Washington National Opera Orchestra at the Hylton Performing Arts Venue in Virginia.
​
Carroll returned to the Aspen Music Festival in the Summer of 2025, where she performed the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte to great acclaim, under the baton of Patrick Summers and directed by Renée Fleming.
Carroll had the honor of being named a National Semifinalist in the Metropolitan Opera's Eric & Dominique Laffont Competition. Carroll spent her 2024/25 season as a Laufer Young Artist with the Palm Beach Opera, where she will made her PBO debut singing the role of Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro) and covered the roles of Violetta (La traviata) and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette).
In January 2025, Ms. Carroll won Third Prize in Houston Grand Opera’s 2025 Eleanor McCollum Competition, where she performed with the HGO Orchestra and Maestro James Gaffigan on the podium. In February, Ms. Carroll was a guest soloist of the St. Hugh Steinway Recital Series, where she gave a recital with world-renowned Tenor, Arturo Chacon- Cruz, and Roberto Berrocal, piano, in Miami, FL. In May, Carroll was named a finalist in the Vero Beach Opera Competition.
Her apprentice artist training has included spending time as a Renée Fleming Artist in the Aspen Music Festival’s Opera Theatre and VocalARTS training program. While there, she sang the titular role of Gretel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, under the baton of Maestro Patrick Summers. In the summer finale concert, she also sang the role of Gerhilde in Act 3 of Wagner’s Die Walküre under the baton of Robert Spano alongside Wagnerian superstars Christine Georke, Tamara Wilson, and Greer Grimsley. In the summers of 2022/2023, Lauren was an Apprentice Artist at Des Moines Metro Opera, where she covered the roles of Helena in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen. Lauren also sang scenes as Marguerite (Faust), Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande), and Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor).
Ms. Carroll graduated with her Master’s Degree in Vocal Performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in 2024, and while there, she performed the roles of Belinda (Dido & Aeneas), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and Rose Maurrant (Street Scene).
Lauren is an avid collaborator of new work, and has premiered numerous chamber works including those of composers: Sam Wu (Songs of Loss and Longing), Hannah Rice and the Aspen Music Festival (Lilith), and Daniel Liebovic (Signes Suspendus). In 2021, Lauren graduated with her Bachelor of Music degree from Drake University in Des Moines, IA, where she sang the roles of Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte). She had many opportunities to perform important concert work while in Des Moines, such as, the Soprano Soloist in Vaughan-Williams' Dona nobis pacem, and Mozart's Mass in C.
​
In 2021, She was the National Winner of the Music Teacher’s National Competition, The Schubert Club Competition, and a Central- Region winner of the NATS Competition. She is an alumna of Houston Grand Opera’s Young Artist Vocal Academy.