TIFFANY CARMEL

Tiffany has performed extensively throughout Southern California. Spending a vast amount of her career in San Diego, she sang in more than fifty main-stage productions with San Diego Opera where, in addition to being a core chorister, she sang several small roles including the Milliner in Der Rosenkavalier, the Second Peasant in The Marriage of Figaro, and one of the soloist Handmaidens in Turandot. She also toured with the San Diego Opera Ensemble, where she premiered the role of Evilina in an original production by Dr. Nicolas Reveles of The Sleeping Beauty.

Some other selected highlights of Ms. Carmel’s career include Ulrica (Un Ballo in Maschera), Maddalena (Rigoletto), Frugola (Il Tabarro), La Principessa (Suor Angelica), Suzuki (Madama Butterfly), Flora (La Traviata), Mercedes (Carmen), Third Lady (Magic Flute), Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), and the title role in L’Enfant et les Sortileges. Some of her more notable oratorio credits as a soloist include Verdi’s Requiem, Duruflé’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Mozart’s Requiem. Ms. Carmel has sung in several productions with Long Beach Opera and she has been a recurring soloist with Pacific Palisades Symphony. She has also regularly added her vocal talents to a wide variety of programs while touring Japan with the Roger Wagner Chorale, and locally with the Wagner Ensemble.

At the other end of the musical spectrum, Ms. Carmel sang with Christina Aguilera at the 2004 Grammy Awards for Ms. Aguilera’s award winning song Beautiful. An album of original music composed by Tracy Bartelle and featuring Tiffany has been released internationally through Fable Music and BMI. Her voice can also be heard portraying numerous characters in the archives of the Spike and Mike Animation Festival.

Ms. Carmel holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in classical vocal performance from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She is the author of the Stelletwal fantasy series. And she is a regular composer of meditation/sleep/spa instrumental tracks, writing under the pseudonym Arielle Reve with Lost in Sound Records. Arielle Reve can be found on most streaming platforms.