Professional Singer (Career Highlights)
During her seventeen-year career, Barbara Hocher performed thirty-five roles with twenty-seven companies and appeared as soloist with twenty-two symphony orchestras and twelve festivals in the United States. Here are highlights from her opera and concert repertoire:
Opera
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Argento |
Lady with the Cake Box (A Postcard from Morocco) |
Washington National Opera, Central City Opera |
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Birtwhistle |
Mrs. Green (Down by the Greenwood Side) |
Tanglewood Opera Project |
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Bizet |
Micaela (Carmen) |
Annapolis Opera |
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Blitzstein |
Birdie (Regina) |
Michigan Opera Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera |
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Britten |
Mrs. Grose (The Turn of the Screw) |
Washington National Opera |
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Cherubini |
Glauce (Medea) |
New York City Opera |
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Donizetti |
Adina (L’Elisir d’amore) |
Hawaii Opera Theater |
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Gilbert and Sullivan |
Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore) |
New York City Opera |
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Henderson |
Cora (The Last of the Mohicans) |
Lake George Opera Festival |
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Henze |
Frau Hasentreffer (Der junge Lord) |
New York City Opera |
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Menotti |
Mrs. Gobineau (The Medium) |
Washington National Opera, Israel Festival, Spoleto Melbourne Festival |
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Monteverdi |
Drusilla (L’Incoronazione di Poppea) |
New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Tanglewood Opera Project |
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Mozart |
Konstanze (The Abduction from the Seraglio) |
Glimmerglass Opera |
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Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) |
Wolf Trap Opera Company |
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Zerlina (Don Giovanni) |
Artpark/Lewiston, Goldovsky Opera Company (tour) |
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Ilia (Idomeneo) |
New York City Opera |
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Puccini |
Mimi (La bohème) |
Lake George Opera Festival, Opera Company of Boston |
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Musetta (La bohème) |
Opera Company of Boston |
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Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly) |
Virginia Opera |
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Strauss, J. |
Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) |
Eugene Opera |
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Strauss, R. |
Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier) |
Palm Beach Opera |
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Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos) |
New York City Opera |
Concert
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Bach |
Magnificat |
Winter Park Bach Festival, Kennedy Center |
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St. Matthew Passion |
Winter Park Bach Festival |
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Christmas Oratorio |
Rochester Philharmonic |
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Cantatas No. 78, 79, 211 |
San Francisco Symphony |
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Beethoven |
Symphony No. 9 |
Cleveland Ballet, Hudson Valley Philharmonic |
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Berio |
Circles |
Tanglewood Festival |
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Brahms |
Requiem |
Oratorio Singers of Charlotte |
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Handel |
Messiah |
Winter Park Bach Festival, Messiah Festival/Lindsborg, KS |
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Haydn |
The Seasons |
Oratorio Singers of Charlotte |
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St. Theresa Mass |
Clarion Concerts |
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Mahler |
Symphony No. 4 |
American Symphony at Carnegie Hall, New Jersey Symphony (on tour) |
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Mozart |
Ilia (Idomeneo) |
Minnesota Orchestra |
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Exsultate, jubilate |
New Jersey Symphony (on tour) |
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Requiem |
Youngstown Symphony |
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Midnight Mozart Concert |
Oratorio Society of Washington |
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Poulenc |
Gloria |
St. Bartholomew’s Church, N.Y.C. |
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Williams, R.V. |
Dona Nobis Pacem |
Buffalo Philharmonic |
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Vivaldi |
Gloria |
Buffalo Philharmonic |
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Viennese Gala (operetta arias) |
Bangor Symphony |
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Opera arias |
Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony |
Conductors
Kazuyoshi Akiyama
Bruno Maderna
Sarah Caldwell
John DeMain
Boris Goldovsky
Newell Jenkins
Christopher Keene
Cal Stewart Kellogg
Robert LaMarchina
Jesse Levine
John Mauceri
John Nelson
Karl Richter
Julius Rudel
Gunther Schuller
Stanislav Skrowaczewski
Recitals
Gardner Museum, Boston
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire
State University of New York at New Paltz, N.Y.
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Wolf Trap/the Barns, Vienna, Virginia
ms Nieuw Amsterdam
Community recitals in Texas, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts
Affiliate Artist, ambassador for the arts – Community residencies and recitals
Albion, N.Y.
Leavenworth, Kansas
Marianna, Florida
Westerville, Ohio
Anderson, South Carolina
Jackson, Tennessee
Affiliate Artist Residency in Anderson, SC; ‘Musetta’ sings for factory workers.