Barbara Bonney is one of the world’s most accomplished lyric sopranos. She lead the field in her chosen repertoire of roles by Mozart and Richard Strauss and is recognized as one of the finest Lieder and concert performers of her generation.
Barbara Bonney sang with the world’s leading opera companies. Her interpretations of Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier under Sir Georg Solti and Carlos Kleiber have both been released on video, as has her performance of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) from La Scala, Milan.
She was a regular guest with the Vienna State Opera, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in Munich, Hamburg and Geneva.
In concert, Ms. Bonney has appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic under Seiji Ozawa and Riccardo Muti, the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado (singing Mahler), and more…