Barbara bonney biography

Barbara Bonney (born April 14, 1956) is an American soprano.

Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and cello.

When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist.

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Barbara Bonney is widely recognised as a superlative recital and concert artist and as one of the great Mozart singers of her generation.

She spent two years at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) studying German and music including voice with Patricia Stedry, and spent her junior year at the University of Salzburg, where she switched from cello to voice. While there, she studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum.

Years later she received an honorary doctorate from UNH.

In 1979, Bonney joined the Staatstheater Darmstadt, where she made her debut as Anna in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor). In the subsequent five years she made appearances throughout Germany and Europe, notably at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and La Scala in Milan.

She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1987 in Richard Strauss' Ariadn