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Coloratura soprano Barbara Kilduff has enjoyed a career on both the
American and European stages in opera, oratorio and song recital. A
National Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council auditions, she went
on to win first prize in the famed Munich International Competition
and the silver medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She
made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1987 under the baton of James
Levine in the demanding role of Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss'
Ariadne auf Naxos, with Jessye Norman, and continued that
season as Adele in Die Fledermaus, and the following season as
Cleopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar and Blondchen in Mozart's
Die Entfuehrung aus dem Serail. She also appeared in the
Metropolitan 25th Anniversary Gala. Ms. Kilduff has performed in many
of the major opera houses of Europe (Vienna, Zurich, Bonn, Hamburg,
Milan, Munich, Madrid) and in the US and Canada (San Francisco, San
Diego, Baltimore, Washington, Vancouver). Her other roles have
included Olympia in Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann and
Sophie in R. Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier. As a recitalist Ms
Kilduff has appeared in numerous artist series in the US and has
presented master classes at universities and colleges. In New England
she has performed with the Chorus Pro Musica under Jeffrey Rink in
Poulenc's Gloria, in Carmina Burana with the Andover
Choral Society under Allen Combs and as Queen of the Night in Mozart's
Die Zauberflote with Granite State Opera under Phillip Lauriat. In
2002 she was featured in a Schocken-Gessner series recital with Brian
Moll in Pickman Hall at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. She
has recently been a visiting faculty member at Boston University's
School for the Arts and the New England Conservatory of Music, and is
currently a visiting faculty member at Phillips Academy in Andover.
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