Barbara Bonney

**Barbara Bonney** (an haife ta a ranar 14 ga Afrilu, 1956) soprano ce ta Amurka. Tana da alaƙa da rawar soprano a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na Mozart da Richard Strauss da kuma wasan kwaikwayo.

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Bonney a Montclair, New Jersey . Yayinda take yarinya ta horar da piano da cello. Lokacin da Bonney ke da shekaru 13 iyalinta suka koma Maine, inda ta zama wani ɓangare na Portland Symphony Youth Orchestra a matsayin mai kunnawa. Ta shafe shekaru biyu a Jami'ar New Hampshire (UNH) tana karatun Jamusanci da kiɗa ciki har da murya tare da Patricia Stedry, kuma ta yi ƙaramar shekarunta a Jami'an Salzburg, inda ta sauya daga cello zuwa murya. Yayinda take can, ta yi karatu a Jami'ar Mozarteum Salzburg .  Shekaru bayan haka ta sami digiri na girmamawa daga UNH .

## Ayyuka
A shekara ta 1979, Bonney ta shiga gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Staatstheater Darmstadt, inda ta fara bugawa a matsayin Anna a cikin The Merry Wives of Windsor . A cikin shekaru biyar da suka biyo baya ta bayyana a Jamus da kuma ko'ina cikin Turai, musamman a Royal Opera House a Covent Garden a London da La Scala a Milan. Ta fara wasan kwaikwayo na Metropolitan a shekarar 1987 a cikin Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos a matsayin Naiad da kuma wasan kwaikwayo na Vienna State a wannan shekarar kamar Sophie a *Der Rosenkavalier* . Tun daga wannan lokacin, ta bayyana a manyan gidajen wasan kwaikwayo na duniya da kuma Bikin Salzburg, inda ta kasance Servilia a cikin Mozart's La *Clemenza di Tito* .

Tare da repertoire dinta a cikin opera a matsayin lyric soprano, ita fitacciyar mai ba da labari ce, kuma ta bayyana a cikin rikodin sama da 90, gami da rikodin solo 15. Shekaru biyu, tun daga 1999, Bonney bai yi wasan opera ba, don mayar da hankali kan wasan kwaikwayo. Koyaya, ta lura cewa wasan kwaikwayo na solo ba su da abokantaka na yin wasan kwaikwayo a cikin wasan kwaikwayo tare da wasu mutane da yawa. A shekara ta 2002, ta ba da gudummawa ga "The Willow Song" zuwa kundin tarawa, When Love Speaks (EMI Classics), wanda ke nuna shahararrun 'yan wasan kwaikwayo da mawaƙa da ke fassara sonnets na Shakespeare's da kuma wasan kwaikwayo. Sauran kundin sun hada da aikinta na 2006 a kan Welcome to the Voice, wanda Steve Nieve ya kirkiro.

A ranar 1 ga watan Agusta, 2006, IMG Artists ta ba da sanarwar cewa an soke duk bayyanar da Bonney ta yi kuma ba za su sake wakiltar ta ba. A lokacin, shafin yanar gizon IMG Artists kawai ta bayyana dalilin ne "saboda yanayin kanta", amma Bonney ta bayyana a cikin wata kasida ta Yuli 2007 cewa waɗannan yanayi sun haɗa da "mai wahala" saki daga Maurice Whitaker. Ta riga ta auri Håkan Hagegård na tsawon shekaru bakwai; wannan auren ya ƙare da kisan aure.

Bonney memba ce ta Royal Swedish Academy of Music  kuma tana ziyara farfesa a Royal Academy of Music, London . Har ila yau, tana cikin bangaren koyarwa na Jami'ar Mozarteum Salzburg, a matsayin Farfesa ta Jami'a na Waƙoƙi . Har ila yau, tana cikin bangaren koyarwa na Cibiyar Nazarin Kiɗa ta Amurka a Graz, Austria . 

Bonney ta bude kantin sayar da tufafi da ke Salzburg, LUNA Dress Design, a ranar haihuwarta ta 55 a shekara ta 2011. A halin yanzu ana kiran alamar "Bonney & Kleid".

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