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Carolann Page (born December 22, 1950) is an American singer and actress. She is a Crossover music with credits in musical theatre, opera, chamber music and concert repertoire.
Page also created the roles of Celia in the revised version of Carlisle Floyd's The Passion of Jonathan Wade, Mamah Cheney in Daron Hagen's Shining Brow, Doll in Hagen's Vera of Las Vegas, and Gayle in Michael Tippett's The Ice Break (in concert). Standard operatic roles include all three heroines in Les Contes d'Hoffman, the title role in Jules Massenet's Manon and Elvira in Don Giovanni. She has appeared with the major opera companies in Houston, Los Angeles, D.C., Cincinnati Opera, Miami, Opera Cleveland, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh Opera, Edinburgh, Netherlands and the Bobigny in Paris.
Broadway theatre appearances include Cunegonde in Harold Prince's revival of Candide, Music Is, directed by the legendary George Abbott, Majorie in Allegro (Encores!), directed by Susan Schulman, and Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall, directed by Scott Ellis.
Off-Broadway, Page's diverse creations include Mary Lincoln in Asylum: The Strange Case of Mary Lincoln (York Theatre), Gertrude Stein in Blood on the Dining Room Floor (Signature Theatre), Sophie in The Fishkin Touch (Jewish Repertory Theatre), and the Iowa Housewife in Menopause, the Musical (Playhouse 91). Of her performance as Eleanor Roosevelt in Michael John LaChiusa's First Lady Suite (The Public Theater), Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, "Remember the name of Carolann Page..."
Page has appeared in concert and oratorio with the major symphonies of Dallas, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Hawaii Symphony, Virginia, London, Brno and Prague in repertoire from Handel, Mendelssohn, Benjamin Britten and Gorecki to her own Evening of Sondheim with the San Francisco and Boston Pops. Her chamber music and recital appearances include the festivals of Marlboro, Blossom Festival, OK Mozart, Ambler, Chautauqua, Cape and Islands and the DaCamera Society.
Page made her professional debut in 1973 at the Marlboro Music Festival, as a soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy conducted by Pablo Casals, with Rudolf Serkin at the piano.
Page has been teaching voice and acting since opening her own studio in New York City in 1984. She was a founding faculty member of the Professional Musical Theatre Workshop at the Manhattan School of Music (1992–2010) and was on the voice faculty at New York University's Steinhardt School of Music (1998–2002), where she also served as director of the Opera Theatre Workshop. Page is currently on the faculty at the Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University.
| 1987 | Nixon In China, PBS Great Performance Series hosted by Walter Cronkite |
| 2000 | Law & Order (Season 10, Episode 18 "Mega") |
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