Soprano Barbara Bonney has, sadly, retired from live performances on stage.
Barbara Bonney was considered as one of the world’s most accomplished lyric sopranos. She led the field in her chosen repertory of roles by W.A. Mozart and Richard Strauss and is increasingly recognised as one of the finest Lieder and concert performers of her generation.
Barbara Bonney sang with the world’s leading opera companies and 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 the role of Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) from La Scala, Milan.
She was also 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.
Here is Ms. Bonney in an Aria from the Marriage of Figaro by Mozart:
https://youtu.be/tVa8zHqPtDU
