Last season on just ten days notice, Helden Tenor Farrar Strum made his Young Victorian Theatre Company debut as Ralph Rackstraw. He is a recent graduate of the Peabody Conservatory with both a Master’s degree in Opera and a performance certificate in Peabody’s prestigious Opera Program. He has been hailed repeatedly by the Baltimore Sun as a "singer of great promise" who is a "charming tenor with engaging fervor" and sang  "stylistically shaped phrases" With the Peabody Opera  he enjoyed success in the title role of Albert Herring, Governor and Vanderdendur in Candide , Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi , and Belmonte in Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. He makes his debut as a soloist with the Baltimore Opera as Flavio in >Norma in the 2008-2009 season and made his professional debut as a Helden Tenor with the Washington National Wagner Society’s in May 2008, in a concert of scenes and arias featuring Farrar singing arias and scenes from Rienzi, , Die Walküre, and Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg.

    Farrar also received critical acclaim from the Baltimore Sun as the tenor in a choreographed version of Orff’s Carmina Burana In Oratorio and Symphony work, most recently, he has sung the title role in Britten’s Saint Nicolas with the Handel Choir of Baltimore. He has also sung with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, The Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra, and Columbia Pro Cantare. Although a faithful southern gentleman, he has settled in Baltimore.