Mezzo-soprano  Ruth L. Carver possesses a "dark, romantic voice" and loves exploring the musical literature of opera, oratorio, and song. Miss 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.

Miss Carver’s many operatic roles include Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief, Die Hexe in Haensel und Gretel, and Bianca in The Rape of Lucretia. Other appearances 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 Jeanette Favaro-Reuter, 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 appeared in recitals in Baltimore and starred as Miss Todd in The Old Maid and the Thief in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She also performed 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 sang 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.  Miss Carver also takes part in Chesapeake Concert Opera’s production of Così fan tutte.