"A songstress that marries her expressive and silvery lyricism with exemplary diction and compelling acting.” Chronicle Herald (Halifax)

"Fris possesses a gorgeous vocal instrument with illuminating beauty of tone and a voice full of vocal colours well matched to intensely subjective moods  -- evocative and breath-taking.” Halifax Mailstar

"Barbara Fris brings to the stage personal charisma, an unflagging musical imagination and genuine passion."  Globe and Mail (Toronto)

    OPERA

    Bizet
    Micaëla - Carmen
    Britten                         
    Ellen Orford - Peter Grimes
    Cilea
    Adriana - Adriana Lecouvreur
    Gounod
    Marguerite - Faust
    Lehàr
    Hanna Glawari - The Merry Widow
    Leoncavallo
    Nedda - I Pagliacci
    Massenet
    Chemin -  Le Cid
    Menotti
    Magda Sorel - The Consul  
    The Mother - Amahl & The Night Visitors
    Mozart
    Contessa - Marriage of Figaro
    Donna Anna - Don Giovanni
    Elvira - Don Giovanni
    Fiordiligi - Cosi fan tutte
    Pamina & Erste Dame - Die Zauberflöte
    Puccini
    Cio-Cio-San - Madama Butterfly
    Liù - Turandot
    Mimi & Musetta - La Bohème
    Suor Angelica - Suor Angelica
    Tosca - Tosca
    Strauss, R.
    Arabella - Arabella
    Ariadne - Ariadne auf Naxos
    Verdi
    Alice Ford - Falstaff
    Amelia - Simon Boccanegra
    Desdemona - Otello
    Violetta - La Traviata
    Wagner        
    Elsa - Lohengrin

    ORATORIO/ORCHESTRAL WORKS

    Beethoven
    Beethoven IX Ode to Joy and Die Freude
    Brahms
    Ein Deutches Requiem, Opus 45
    Fauré
    Requiem
    Handel
    Judas Maccabaeus
    Messiah
    Haydn
    St. Nicolai Mass
    Third Mass (The Imperial or Lord Nelson)
    Mendelssohn
    Elijah
    Mozart
    Exultate Jubilate
    Vorrei Speigarvi, Oh Dio
    C Minor Mass
    Requiem
    Orff
    Carmina Burana
    Poulenc
    Gloria
    Strauss
    Vier Letzte Lieder
    Verdi
    Messa di Requiem
    Vivaldi
    Gloria
    Wagner
    Wesendonk Lieder



    MUSIC THEATRE, CONCERT & RECITAL
    Repertoire available upon request
    ENGAGED BY (selected presenters):

    Arts & Letters Club
    Atlantic Symphony Orchestra
    Bel Canto Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
    Calgary Opera
    Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
    Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
    Canadian Opera Company
    CBC Halifax
    Dalhousie University, Faculty of Music
    Eagle Chorus
    Edmonton Opera
    Edmonton Symphony
    Ed Mirvish Productions
    Laurentian University
    Luino, Italy Summer Music Festival
    Manitoba Opera
    McMichael Canadian Art Collection
    Opera Company of Philadelphia
    Opera East
    Opera Theatre of Alberta
    North York Philharmonic Choir
    North York Symphony Orchestra
    Roy Thomson Hall
    Royal Canadian Yacht Club
    Scarborough Philharmonic Orchestra
    Scarborough Symphony Orchestra
    Science North
    Siena Summer Music Festival, Italy
    Smile Theatre Company
    St. Mary's University Art Gallery
    Sudbury Symphony Orchestra
    Sudbury Theatre Centre
    Symphony Nova Scotia
    The Granite Club
    Toronto Arts & Letters Club
    Toronto Heliconian Club
    Ukrainian Millennium Foundation
    University of Toronto Women’s’ Club
BARBARA FRIS Classical Soprano
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Declared "...one of Toronto’s most artistic, creative and inspiring women” by the Luminato Festival (2008).
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"... youthful timbre and clean vocalism, ideally suited to Mozart and    
Strauss heroines."    

The Halifax Herald