Born to Polish émigrés in Montreal, she sought to become a signer at an early age and made her public début at the Sarah Fischer Concert.
[2] Carson made her public début at the Sarah Fischer Concert series in Montreal in 1956,[3] and later her first operatic appearance at the Opéra de Montréal as the Lady in Waiting in Macbeth three years later.
[1] She signed her first major contract with the New York City Opera to be part of its national tour for the 1965–66 season and made her début as the Countess of The Marriage of Figaro.
[1] The following year, she appeared in New York in a concert version of Les Troyens,[1] and reprised the title role of Tosco for Canadian Opera Company (COC) at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
[6] Carson was cast as Desdemona in Otello in 'a Opera du Quebec' production in 1973,[1][7] before returning to New York to partake in the concert edition of Palestrina.
[8] Operatic bass player Paul Plishka invited her to partake in a concert of selections from his most popular repertoires in high school auditoriums in 1978.
[10] Other performances that Carson portrayed during her career were Constanze in The Abduction in, Maddalena in Andrea Chénier and the title roles of Salome and Turandot in opera buildings across the world.
[1][2] Her final stage performance was in 1986,[3] and she began operating a store called Carson-Palmer: Fashion Alternatives on Eglinton Avenue in Toronto,[2] where she rented out formal dresses to women who did not want high-end gowns.
[14] She donated her musical scores, personal correspondence, program booklets and tape recordings of her performances to the IRCPA library to ensure her work was preserved for future generations.