| Biography | Cheryl Ruth Barker AO is an Australian operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the late 1980s. She has sung on several complete opera recordings with Chandos Records, including the title roles in Dvorák's Rusalka, Janácek's Káta Kabanová and Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Emilia Marty in Janácek's The Makropulos Case. She has also made two solo recordings of opera arias, one with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor David Parry and the other with Orchestra Victoria and conductor Richard Bonynge. On the stage she has had partnerships with the English National Opera (ENO) and Opera Australia. |