- Barbara Dever
The American
mezzo-soprano Barbara Dever (born 1952) is a well-knownopera singer who has appeared withLuciano Pavarotti ,Plácido Domingo ,Zubin Mehta ,Nello Santi andJames Levine .Dever made her
Metropolitan Opera debut in 1994, as Amneris in "Aida ". Other roles at the Met include Azucena in "Il Trovatore ", Ulrica in "Un Ballo in Maschera ", Eboli in "Don Carlo ", and Fricka in "Die Walküre " (1993 Japan tour under James Levine).She has sung at the Washington Opera, New National Theater (Tokyo), Michigan Opera Theatre, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Massimo (Palermo; Grand Reopening),
La Scala ,Vienna State Opera ,Berlin State Opera ,Teatro Colón , Arena di Verona,Virginia Opera , and the Cincinnati Opera.Dever's performances have taken her to
Montreal ,Mexico City ,Macerata ,Parma ,Reykjavík ,San Diego ,Antwerp ,Puerto Rico ,Palermo ,Vancouver , Santiago,Berlin , andBuenos Aires .She has performed with the State Symphony Orchestra of São Paulo, the Louisville Orchestra at Chautauqua, the Florida Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Mexico.
Dever sang at a
Lincoln Center live concert telecast with Pavarotti and performed the role of Dalila opposite Plácido Domingo's Samson in 1998 (Mexico City).
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