Barbara has had a long, internationally acclaimed career as a leading coloratura soprano. Her career began as a National winner of the Metropolitan Opera Council auditions, going from there to win first prize in the Munich International Competition and the silver medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. Barbara has performed in Munich, Vienna and Hamburg State Operas, Basel, the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Vancouver, Athens, San Diego and Cologne, Washington Opera, Zurich, Geneva, Bonn, Graz, Madrid, Mannheim.In the New England area she has performed as Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) with Granite State Opera, Norina (Don Pasquale) with the Newton Symphony Orchestra, Morgana (Alcina), Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) and Konstanza (Abduction from the Seraglio) with Emmanuel Music.In concert Barbara has appeared with Masterworks Chorale, New England Classical Singers, Dedham Choral Society, Cambridge Community Chorus, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and the New Bedford Symphony.In parallel with her busy singing career Barbara has taught voice at Phillips Academy for the past seventeen years. Barbara lives locally in Andover with husband, Dermot and their two daughters, Eileen and Caroline.Further background information can be found on Barbara’s website at barbarakilduff.com
Frank Kelley sings a wide variety of music throughout North America and Europe. Hehas performed many roles with Odyssey Opera, The Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Boston,Florentine Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, and the San Francisco Opera Company has appeared at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Theatre de la Monnaie inBrussels, The Frankfurt Opera, Opera de Monte Carlo, and in the Peter Sellarsproductions of Die Sieben Todsünden, Das Kleine Mahagonny, Cosi fan tutte, and Lenozze di Figaro. The Mozart operas were recorded by Decca and Austrian PublicTelevision, and were broadcast on PBS's "Great Performances". They are available onLondon DVD as is Weill's Die Sieben Todsünden. His recording (Elmer Gantry, with theFlorentine Opera Company and the Milwaukee Symphony for Naxos records) has wontwo Grammy awards including best original composition. The most recent recording,Carlisle Floyd’s Wuthering Heights, (Florentine Opera and Milwaukee Symphony) hasbeen highly acclaimed. In concert performances Mr. Kelley has sung with the BostonSymphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, theNational Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and theOrchestra of St. Luke's. He has performed medieval and renaissance music withSequentia, the Boston Camerata, and the Waverly Consort, and he performs baroquemusic with Sarasa, the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Emmanuel Music,Music of the Baroque, Opera Lafayette, and Aston Magna. Mr. Kelley has participated inthe Blossom Festival, the Tanglewood Festival, Ravinia Festival, Marlboro Music Festival,Pepsico Summerfare, the New England Bach Festival, Next Wave Festival, WexfordFestival Opera, and the Boston Early Music Festival. He has recorded for Naxos, London,Decca, Erato, Harmonia Mundi France, Teldec, Telarc, Koch International, DeutscheHarmonia Mundi, and Centaur.A resident of Boston, Mr. Kelley sings there regularly with Emmanuel Music, both in theongoing series which presents the complete Bach cantatas and in special projects,including the complete piano/vocal works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms,Schubert lieder, Don Giovanni, The St. Matthew Passion, Alcina, The Magic Flute, TheSt. John Passion, The Rake’s Progress, Susanna, Die Schöne Müllerin and Dichterliebe.
