CARROLL FREEMAN Stage Director was chosen by Opera News as one of America’s most exciting young talents.  He began his professional singing career as a child touring the US, Canada, and Japan.  As a boy he soloed with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, New York City Opera, and The NBC Bell Telephone Hour.  He starred in the CBS-TV series Look Up And Live.  Mr. Freeman made his New York City Opera debut as Alfredo in La Traviata and his European debut at the Edinburgh Festival in The Postman Always Rings Twice, in a role he created in its world premiere with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis.  His performance of Don Ottavio in Peter Sellars’ IMZ OperaFilm award-winning production of Don Giovanni was seen worldwide; live in New York, Vienna, and Paris; and on video released by Deutsche Grammaphon.  Mr. Freeman also performed at the Nissei Theater in Tokyo in the Japanese premiere of Miki’s Joruri.  He is featured on the Pro Arte CD, H. M. S. Gilbert & Sullivan, chosen by CD Review as one of the best classical CDs of 1990.  Mr. Freeman has performed over 125 roles in his forty-five-year career.  In concert, he has soloed with the late Eduardo Mata and Dallas Symphony; Leonard Slatkin and Saint Louis Symphony; Sergiù Comissiona and Houston Symphony; Philadelphia Orchestra; Minnesota Symphony; National Symphony; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, to name a few, and made several appearances at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall.  Mr. Freeman was a two-time winner of the National Opera Institute Award given at the Kennedy Center by Beverly Sills and Hal Prince.  Currently, Mr. Freeman is Director of Opera at the University of Tennessee School of Music and Artistic Director of the Knoxville Opera Studio of Knoxville Opera.  A past Artistic Director of Mississippi Opera, Opera Aegean, Opera Festival of Oklahoma, Opera in the Ozarks, and the Des Moines Metro Opera apprentice program, he has stage-directed consistently in the US for twenty years.