Cheryl Barker

Background: Studied with Dame Joan Hammond. Awards: Green Room, Mo, Helpmann, Honorary Doctorate of Music from Melbourne University

OA repertoire: Mimì: La bohème, Marzelline: Fidelio, Nedda: Pagliacci, Countess: Marriage of Figaro, Antonia: Tales of Hoffmann, Tatyana: Eugene Onegin, Donna Elvira: Don Giovanni, Desdemona: Otello, title roles: Arabella, La traviata, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Jenufa, Rusalka, Manon Lescaut, Giorgetta/Angelica/Lauretta: Il trittico, Emilia Marty: Makropulos Secret

Other Companies: Deutsche Oper, Berlin; Royal Opera House; ENO; Scottish Opera; Bastille/Paris; De Vlaamse Opera; Théâtre de la Monnaie; Netherlands Opera; Rome Opera; Hamburg Staatsoper, Geneva Opera, WNO, Vancouver, Minnesota, Houston. Roles include: Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Maria Stuarda, Katya Kabanova, Jenifer: Midsummer Marriage, Governess/Miss Jessel: Turn of the Screw, Donna Elvira, Violetta, Liù, Giorgetta/Angelica: Il trittico, Desdemona, Emilia Marty, Merry Widow. Future: ENO, Strasbourg, Opera du Rhin

Recordings/Videos: Mimì (AO/ABC Classics); Madama Butterfly (Chandos, OA/ABC Classics, Belgian TV, Nederlandse Television); Persuasion and Seduction (ABC Classics); Puccini Passion (Melba Recordings); Katya Kabanova, Makropulous Case, Rusalka (Chandos)