Barbara Dunn-Prosser
Barbara Dunn-Prosser’s performing career is a versatile one. She has appeared opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Donna Elvira in Rhombus Media’s film of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and has toured southern Ontario with her one-woman show, Come to the Woods, about pioneer artist and writer Anne Langton. Barbara has been a featured soloist with symphony orchestras across North America in her role as Mme. Cuzzoni in the Classical Kids production of Halleluiah Handel andin Pops Concerts with the Victoria Symphony, Orchestra London, the Kingston Symphony and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony.
Operatic credits include Mme. Silverklang in Mozart’s The Impresario and Sharon in Master Class for the Stratford Festival Music Concert Series and Workshops; Fanny in Rossini’s La Cambiale di Matrimonio for Opera York, Rosalinde in Quinte Summer Music’s presentation of Die Fledermaus, Ophélie in Hamlet for Summer Opera Lyric Theatre, and the Witch in Hansel and Gretel and Lucy in The Telephone for Northern Opera Theatre. Barbara has also spent several seasons with the Canadian Opera Company, appearing in such productions as Béatrice et Bénédict, Dialogues des Carmélites, Der Fliegende Holländer and I Pagliacci.
For the Stratford Festival, Barbara created the role of Amanda St. James in the world première of The Elephant Song. She performed the roles of Cinderella’s mother and the Giant in Into the Woods; Fiametta and, later, Gianetta in The Gondoliers; a Postulant in The Sound of Music; and Irina Arkadina in The Seagull. She performed in the ensemble and as Carlotta in both the touring and Toronto companies of The Phantom of the Opera and appeared in HMS Pinafore, both at the Stratford Festival and in Brian Macdonald’s North American touring production. In 2002 she released her CD Till We Meet Again. In 2010 Barbara was the featured soloist at the annual gala fundraiser for the Barnardo Society in Scotland, U.K.
Barbara holds an M.A. and a B.Ed. from Queen’s University in Kingston, and is an Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in voice and piano. She is currently an Ontario music festival adjudicator, a member of the Royal Conservatory College of Examiners and of the Ontario Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Since 2009 Barbara has been revising the Voice Syllabus for the Royal Conservatory of Music and compiling and editing the graded series of books from Introductory to Grade 8 to be published in 2012.
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