Torontonian Clarison Carson, a retired opera singer, had her name placed alongside some legendary artists in New York City last Friday.

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John Terauds

John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.

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Opera America’s National Opera Center has an Ovation Wall that now boasts Carson’s name.

Her official bio reads:

One of Canada’s most prominent opera singers, Clarice Carson retired from performance in 1986 after many years with the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, La Fenice in Venice, L’Opéra de Montréal, the Canadian Opera Company, and many other companies in Europe and North and South America.  She sang some of opera’s greatest soprano roles, including Tosca, Madama Butterfly, dramatic Mozart and Verdi heroines, and Senta in Wagner’s Flying Dutchman.  She shared the stage with such opera stars as soprano Renata Tebaldi, tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Richard Tucker, and Canada’s Louis Quilico and Léopold Simoneau.  She worked with leading conductors Zubin Mehta, Eugene Ormandy, James Levine, Richard Bonynge, Charles MacKerras, Daniel Barenboim. Canada’s Mario Bernardi and more.

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John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.

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