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Barbara Iona Miller, soprano, was born in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of The Juilliard School, she has appeared in opera and concert throughout Europe and the United States. She has performed the major Puccini and Verdi heroines with The National Opera Company, Lake George Opera, Juilliard Opera, Hartford Opera, and Palm Beach Opera as well as at Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.

European critics (Italy, Germany, and Bulgaria) have praised her "fine vocal technique . . . gifted with a voice worthy of attention.” The American press has said she “sings with power and lustre . . . she is capable of moments of rare beauty”; “an equally fine actress and singer.” Recent appearances have been as Li? in Turandot, Ariadne in Ariadne auf Naxos, and the title role in Suor Angelica. She has sung Tatyana's Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin (in Russian) and excerpts from Otello along with her husband, tenor Marko Lampas, with the Staten Island Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Anthony Aibel and Tosca with the BMCC Downtown Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Miller has appeared in the Donnell Library Concert Series, along with her husband, as Adriana in “La Voix d”Adrienne Lecouvreur,” a piece which she conceived and directed in “Around the World in Opera & Song.” In 2000-2001 she was co-artistic director of the Genesis Opera along with her husband Marko, presenting five performances of Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Il Tabarro and six performances of Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos.

She and Marko teach voice in their Heraklione Arts Studio in New York City.

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