Acclaimed for her “irresistible charisma and dark luscious sound…whose star is deservedly on the rise” (Opera News), Canadian mezzo-soprano Carolyn Sproule has received international acclaim for her performances around the world. Sproule has appeared on stages throughout North America and Europe including The Metropolitan Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Savonlinna Opera Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Opéra de Montréal, Vancouver Opera, and Houston Grand Opera, where she is an alum of the renowned Houston Grand Opera Studio. In the 2025-26 season, she will sing the role of Hansel in Hansel und Gretel with Calgary Opera, as well as return to the Metropolitan Opera for Eugene Onegin. 

Synonymous with the title role in Bizet’s Carmen, Ms. Sproule has been heard as the vivacious gypsy with Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Hong Kong, and Houston Grand Opera, where she was praised as “…astonishing…She commands the stage and you can’t take your eyes off her – or your ears” (Houston Press).

Sproule debuted at The Metropolitan Opera in 2015 as the Sandman in the acclaimed Richard Jones production of Hansel and Gretel and has since returned to The Met singing Dorabella in Phelim McDermott’s Coney Island production of Così fan tutte conducted by Harry Bicket, as well as Ines (Il trovatore), Page (Salome), and Third Lady (The Magic Flute). In addition, Ms. Sproule has been on the Met roster for their productions of Falstaff, Otello, Thais, Eugene Onegin, Le nozze di Figaro, The Death of Klinghoffer, Manon, Cavalleria rusticana, Pique Dame, and Madama Butterfly. 

Other recent performances include Carmen with Reno Philharmonic, Pobehlice in Janacek’s From the House of the Dead and Varva in Kát’a Kabanovaá at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Stéphano in Romeo et Juliette at the Savonlinna Opera Festival, and Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center in Kobe, Japan. She was also heard at the Wexford Festival as Erika in Barber’s Vanessa, for which she received rave reviews and was named the favorite singer of the festival.

In her already illustrious career, Sproule has worked with a renowned collection of conductors and directors including Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Patrick Summers, Sir Andrew Davis, Harry Bicket, Robert Spano, Marco Armiliato, Richard Jones, Andrea Breth, Sir David Pountney, Krzysztof Warlikowski, and Rob Ashford. 

A native of Montréal, Canada, Sproule is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Rice University and has participated in residencies at the Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera (Filene Young Artist), the HGO Studio, Aspen Opera Theater, and The Banff Centre. She is a winner of a 2019 George London award, the Marcello Giordani memorial prize in the 2019 Premiere Opera Foundation Competition and is a recipient of grants from the Jacqueline Desmarais foundation, HGO Studio, Wolf Trap Opera, and Merola.