Cheryl Barker's guest appearances

Cheryl Barker

In Conversation with Lyndon Terracini

In Conversation

Julie Taymor

Paul Fletcher

Nick Jones

Richard Strauss

Elena Kats-Chernin

John Pringle

Bronwyn Bishop

Teddy Tahu Rhodes

Rebecca Ritchie

Stuart Hopps

Taryn Fiebig

Brian Castles-Onion

Gale Edwards

Anna Bligh

John Frost

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An opera singer with an impressively long and distinguished career, Cheryl Barker has sung some of the key roles in the repertoire, perhaps most famously playing Mimi in Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème, her incredible performances of Tosca, and creating the role of Sarah Miles in Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair, in Houston. She and her husband, baritone Peter Coleman-Wright will be joining the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs under artistic director Brett Weymark for Glorious Puccini in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House on October 29. In this conversation, Cheryl speaks about her love of Puccini, shares some wonderful tales from her impressive career, and fills us in about Pacific Opera, the emerging artists program for young opera singers of which she is co-artist director along with Peter Coleman-Wright.

An opera singer with an impressively long and distinguished career, Cheryl Barker has sung some of the key roles in the repertoire, perhaps most famously playing Mimi in Baz Luhrmann’s production of Puccini’s La Bohème, her incredible performances of Tosca, and creating the role of Sarah Miles in Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair, in Houston. She and her husband, baritone Peter Coleman-Wright will be joining the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs under artistic director Brett Weymark for Glorious Puccini in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House on October 29. In this conversation, Cheryl speaks about her love of Puccini, shares some wonderful tales from her impressive career, and fills us in about Pacific Opera, the emerging artists program for young opera singers of which she is co-artist director along with Peter Coleman-Wright.

Cheryl Barker AO: Glorious Puccini, Pacific Opera and the secrets of long lasting love

Cheryl Barker discusses her role as the Countess Madeleine in Opera Australia's 2011 production of Capriccio by Richard Strauss, showing at the Sydney Opera House in July 2011.

Interview: Cheryl Barker discusses Capriccio by Richard Strauss