Barbara Norris, soprano

   Left:  Barbara Norris as Violetta in Act I of 
La Traviata  in EMMA Goes to the Opera

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Barbara Norris has been singing opera and teaching voice since the 1980's, and in St. Augustine since 1998.  In 2000, she and her husband Anthony founded First Coast Opera. She studied with Ron DeFesi and Bonnie Hamilton in New York and received her degree in Voice Performance at the State University of New York’s conservatory school at Purchase.  She also holds a masters' degree in Speech-Language Pathology.  

In regional companies in the Hudson Valley of New York she appeared in such roles as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, and Soeur Constance in Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites.  Barbara has been a featured solo recitalist at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra in NY, as well as in various parts of the country in oratorio performances.  She is the original Artistic Director and is co-founder of First Coast Opera, with husband Impresario Anthony Fast.

Left:  Olympia, the mechanical doll, from Jacques Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann.

Below:  Barbara and FCO Executive Director and husband, Anthony Fast after the performance of Voices of Love.

Right:  Queen of the Night in the Delaware Valley Opera production of The Magic Flute in New York

 Left:  Barbara sings in the Lightner Museum in St. Augustine. 

Right:  Barbara as Gretel in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel. 

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