Carolann Page

Assistant Professor

• Email Address: cpage@rider.edu
• Phone: (609) 921-7100 x8238
• Office: Taylor Hall 20
• Mailing Address: 101 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ 08540

Carolann Page continues to define the true crossover artist earning critical and popular acclaim creating leading roles in both the musical theater and operatic worlds.

On Broadway Ms. Page was seen as Cunegonde in the Tony winning revival of Candide; Marjorie in Allegro (Encores) and George Abbott’s Music Is.  Off Brodway as Mary Lincoln in ASYLUM; Eleanor Roosevelt and Evelyn Lincoln in First Lady’s Suite; Gertrude Stein in Blood On the Dining Room Floor and the Iowa Housewife in Menopause, The Musical. A member of Actor’s Equity for over 35 years, she has performed leading roles in over 40 national and regional musicals and plays.

For the opera world, Ms. Page created the roles of Pat Nixon in the Emmy- and Grammy- winning Nixon In China; Celia in The Passion of Jonathan Wade, Mamah Cheney in Shining Brow and Doll in Vera of Las Vegas. Standard operatic roles include all three heroines in Les Contes d’Hoffman; the title role in Massenet’s Manon and Elvira in Don Giovanni, with opera companies including Houston, Cincinnati, Miami, Pittsburgh, Edinburgh, Netherlands and the Bobigny in Paris.

In concert Ms. Page has performed with major orchestras including Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, London Sinfonietta, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Budapest Concert Orchestra, in repertoire which includes Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Britten’s War Requiem and Gorecki’s Symphony # 3. She has performed her own “Evening of Sondheim” with the Boston Pops and has graced the festival stages of Marlboro, Blossom and Chautauqua.         

Recordings and Television: Adams’ Nixon In China; Foss’ Song of Songs; Tippett’s The Ice Break; “A Tribute to Sondheim Live from Carnegie Hall”; Man of La Mancha and numerous original NY cast recordings. Audiences may also have seen Ms. Page on TV’s Law and Order.

Ms. Page made her directing debut at NYC’s Circle Rep Lab with the world premiere of Kenneth Fuchs’ Brontosaurus. Her diverse directing credits include numerous plays, musicals and operas.    

A founding faculty member of the Professional Musical Theatre Workshop at the Manhattan School of Music now in it’s 16th year, Ms. Page was Adjunct Professor of Voice at NYU and served as Director of the Opera Theatre Workshop from 1997-2002. She maintains an active private voice and acting studio in New York, with students from both the theater and opera worlds and continues to give master classes for NATS, NOA and universities across the country.

Ms. Page is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music where, at seventeen, she was honored to be one of the youngest voice majors accepted.