Mezzo-soprano Ruth L. Carver possesses a "dark, romantic voice" and loves exploring the musical literature of opera, oratorio, and song.  Ms. Carver is a graduate of Vassar College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Victorian Studies, and received her Master of Music in voice performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music.  She has studied voice with Louise Urban, Ah Hong, and Viviane Thomas and opera with Drew Minter. In cello, she studied with Luis Garcia-Renart and Sophie Shao.

    Ms. Carver has appeared in many roles, her favorites of which are Cornelia in Giulio Cesare and Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia. Other operatic roles include Mrs. Anderssen ("A Little Night Music" by Stephen Sondheim),  Charity ("The Rite of the Virtues" by Hildegard von Bingen), Cornelia ("Giulio Cesare" by Handel) and the Voice of the Mother ("Les Contes d'Hoffman" by Offenbach) with the Vassar Opera Workshop. She performed the Third Lady ("Die Zauberfloete" by Mozart) and Frau Van Tassel ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") at the Shaker Mountain Opera Festival. In 2005, she worked with Nico and Carol Castel, performing Olga ("Eugene Onegin") at the New York Opera Studio. She has been invited to sing in masterclasses with Denes Striny, Amy Burton, and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson.  In the summer of 2007 she was a featured singer in the Elysium-between two continents festival in Bernried, Germany.  Exciting engagements for 2008 included a concert at the Palazzo Ricci in Montepulciano, Italy, and the role of The Witch in Hansel and Gretel at Schloss Henfenfeld, Germany.  

   In 2009, she appears in recitals Baltimore and will star as Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  She also performs in scenes from Hansel and Gretel, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Ballad of Baby Doe, directed by noted opera performer and director Richard Crittenden. As a guest artist with OperaFest at the University of Mary Washington, she sings Prince Orlofsky (Die Fledermaus), Mistress Page (The Merry Wives of Windsor), and Augusta (The Ballad of Baby Doe).

   In 2009-2010, she will join the premiere season of Repertory Opera Theater of Washington as Romeo in Bellini's masterpiece I Capuleti e i Montecchi and Bradamante in Handel's Alcina.

    She teaches piano and voice lessons, and is also a member of the Bolton Street Duo, a group consisting of two voices, guitar, and cello, which performs for private functions and events. For booking or other information, see their website.