Recipient of a master’s degree in voice/interpretation at Université de Montréal in April 2011, Miss Léger has played an integral part in Université de Montréal’s opera workshop.
In the past two years, she has played two primary roles with UdeM; Saffi in J. Strauss’ der Zigeunerbaron in 2010 and Cleopatra in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto in 2011. Between 2004 and 2009, Carol earned a bachelor’s degree from Université de Moncton under the guidance of Lisa Roy and Monette Gould.
She had the opportunity to play such roles as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte as well as the second lady in Die Zauberflöte, Miles in Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and in early 2009 she played Lazuli in Chabrier’s L’étoile. She made her professional operatic debut in 2008 with Opera New-Brunswick’s production of The Magic Flute playing Papagena. Miss Léger brought home top honors at the 2007 NATS singing competition and received a second place nod in 2008.
She also worked with the renowned pianist and vocal coach Dalton Baldwin in a series of master classes held in 2007. She was one of six “Professional and emerging artists” showcased in the “Foliage Art-Song Festival” in Vermont, USA in 2008. In August 2009 and 2010, Miss Léger studied along-side Mr. Baldwin and Ms. Nubar at the Académie International d’été de Nice in Nice, France. She has also worked with Wendy Nielson, Liz Upchurch and Tom Diamond at an opera workshop held in St Andrews by the St-Andrews Arts Council