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Barbara Bonney (born April 14, 1956) is an American soprano .
Bonney was born in Montclair, New Jersey. As a child she studied piano and
cello. When Bonney was 13 her family moved to Maine, where she became part
of the Portland Youth Orchestra as a cellist. She spent two years at the
University of New Hampshire (UNH) studying German and music, and spent her
junior year at the University of Salzburg, where she switched from cello to
voice. While there, she studied at the Mozarteum. She graduated from UNH in
1978.
In 1979, Bonney joined the Darmstadt Opera, where she made her debut as
Anna in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor). In
the subsequent five years she made appearances throughout Germany and
Europe, notably at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London and La
Scala in Milan. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1987 in Richard
Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos in the role of N
