Carolann Page  Carolann Page (born December 22, 1950) is an American singer and actress. She is a crossover artist with credits in musical theatre, opera, chamber music and concert repertoire. Page gained international recognition in 1987 when she created the role of Pat Nixon in John Adams' opera "Nixon in China", directed by Peter Sellars. She is on the Grammy Award-winning recording (Nonesuch) and the Emmy Award-winning PBS telecast on DVD. As published in "The Guardian" (London), "Carolann Page's lyric soprano exultantly ravishes the ear." Page also created the roles of Celia in 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 Massenet's "Manon" and Elvira in "Don Giovanni". She has appeared with the major opera companies in Houston, Los Angeles, D.C., Cincinnati, Miami, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Edinburgh, Netherlands and the Bobigny in Paris. Broadway appearances include Cunegonde in Hal 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, Honolulu, Virginia, London, Brno and Prague in repertoire from Handel, Mendelssohn, Britten and Gorecki to her own "Evening of Sondheim" with the San Francisco and Boston Pops.