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Cheryl Barker was born on 22 April, 1960 in Sydney, Australia, is an Australian operatic soprano. Discover Cheryl Barker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is She in this year and how She spends money? Also learn how She earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 22 April, 1960
Birthday 22 April
Birthplace Sydney, Australia
Nationality Australia

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2018

The Australian premiere of Brett Dean's opera Hamlet at the 2018 Adelaide Festival featured Barker as Gertrude.

2014

The inaugural Australian cruise of the performing arts on the MS Radiance of the Seas in November 2014 included Barker as well as, among others, David Hobson, Colin Lane, Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Simon Tedeschi, Elaine Paige, Marina Prior, and Jonathon Welch. Barker and Hobson sang "O soave fanciulla " from La bohème, the first time they sang together 24 years after Baz Luhrmann's production.

2011

In 2011, Barker sang the title role in Opera Queensland's production of Tosca, a role she had portrayed before in London and Sydney. After withdrawing from a 2010 production of Tosca by Opera Australia, she sang this role for the second half of Opera Australia's production in August 2013. Later that year, she reprised the role of Desdemona with Opera Queensland.

2008

Barker received the award for Best Female Performer in an Opera in the 2008 Helpmann Awards for her role in Arabella, and in 2013 for Salome.

In 2008, Barker and her husband were awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Melbourne. In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours, Barker was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia, as was her husband.

2004

As a guest artist Barker has appeared at De Nederlandse Opera (Cio-Cio San, Emilia Marty), the Royal Opera, London (Jenifer in The Midsummer Marriage), the Scottish Opera (Adina in L'elisir d'amore, Annius in La clemenza di Tito, and Tatyana), the Vlaamse Opera (Suor Angelica, Liù in Turandot), and the Welsh National Opera (Káťa Kabanová). In 2004 she portrayed Sarah Miles in the world premiere of Jake Heggie's The End of the Affair at the Houston Grand Opera with her husband Peter Coleman-Wright as her role-husband and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as her lover. In 2009 she sang Cio-Cio San for her first appearance with the Paris Opera.

2002

Barker has one son, Gabriel, with her husband Peter Coleman-Wright. The couple have performed together in several productions: Tosca (2002, ENO and 2005, Opera Australia), The End of the Affair (2004, Houston Grand Opera), Arabella (2008, Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House and State Theatre (Melbourne)), concert recitals (2008 in Sydney with Piers Lane, 2012 in Melbourne), and a semi-staged performance of Kiss Me, Kate at QPAC in Brisbane.

1990

Since the early 1990s Barker has been a regular performer with all of the major opera companies in Australia. With the State Opera of South Australia she has sung Blondchen and Mimì. At the Victoria State Opera she has appeared as Antonia in The Tales of Hoffmann, the First Lady in The Magic Flute, and Mimì. She has portrayed Tatyana in Eugene Onegin at the Lyric Opera of Queensland and Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Auckland Opera. With Opera Australia she has performed Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, Cio-Cio San, Desdemona in Otello, Emilia Marty in The Makropulos Affair, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Marie/Mariette in the Australian premiere, directed by Bruce Beresford, of Die tote Stadt, the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, Marzelline in Fidelio, Nedda in Pagliacci, and the title roles in Arabella, Manon Lescaut, Salome and Suor Angelica.

1986

In 1986, Barker was awarded the Dame Mabel Brookes Fellowship and was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. These accolades helped her to launch a solo career with minor opera companies during the late 1980s. She performed the roles of Marzelline in Fidelio and Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro with the English Touring Opera. In 1989 she won the Royal Over-Seas League Competition in London. Her first major critical success came in 1990 at her debut at the Sydney Opera House as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème, directed by Baz Luhrmann.

1984

In 1984, Barker moved with her husband, baritone Peter Coleman-Wright, to London, so that he could assume his new position as a member of the choir at the Glyndebourne Festival. Two weeks after their arrival, Barker auditioned for and was accepted as a member of the opera chorus at the Welsh National Opera. She stayed there for the next year and a half, occasionally substituting for ailing singers in larger parts and performing the occasional comprimario role in addition to singing in the chorus.

1960

Cheryl Ruth Barker AO (born 22 April 1960, Sydney) is an Australian operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the late 1980s. She has sung on several complete opera recordings with Chandos Records, including the title roles in Dvořák's Rusalka, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová and Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Emilia Marty in Janáček's The Makropulos Case. She has also made two solo recordings of opera arias, one with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor David Parry and the other with Orchestra Victoria and conductor Richard Bonynge. On the stage she has had partnerships with the English National Opera (ENO) and Opera Australia.