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date = "2017-07-26T14:08:00-04:00"
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Winner of the Bel Canto Prize at the 2016 Maryland Lyric Opera Competition, Spanish-American tenor Eric Barry is “making an impressive mark” on opera and concert stages “with a clear timbre, evenness of projection and exceptional sensitivity” (*Opera News*).

His engagements have included Nemorino *L’elisir d’amore* and Alfredo *La traviata* for Shreveport Opera, Edgardo *Lucia di Lammermoor*, Rodolfo *La bohème* and The Duke of Mantua *Rigoletto* for Amarillo Opera, Lionel *Martha* for Boston Midsummer Opera, Don Ottavio *Don Giovanni* for Opera Memphis, Rodolfo *La bohème* for North Carolina Opera, Opera Memphis, Pittsburgh Opera and the Teatro Comunale di Sulmona, Arbace *Ciro in Babilonia* at the Caramoor Music Festival, Rossini’s *Otello* for Opera in the Heights, Jenik *The Bartered Bride* for Boston Midsummer Opera, Eginhard *Fierrabras* for Bard Summerscape, Anthony Hope *Sweeney Todd* at Wolf Trap Opera, Tom Rakewell *The Rake’s Progress* for Wolf Trap Opera and Alfredo *La traviata* for Shreveport Opera.

Eric Barry has a close association with the Beethoven Easter Festival and the Polish Radio Orchestra in Warsaw, where he has sung and recorded Peter Quint *The Turn of the Screw*, Don Luigi *Maria Padilla*, Pylade *Iphigénie en Tauride*, Avito *L’amore dei tre re* and Gabriele Adorno *Simon Boccanegra*, as well as Beethoven Symphony No. 9. He returned in Spring 2016 to sing Prince Hal *At the Boar’s Head*, now available on Dux CD and nominated in the Opera Category for the 2017 International Classical Music Awards.

Highlights of 2015 / 2016 included Pinkerton *Madama Butterfly* for the Florentine Opera Company, Lensky *Eugene Onegin* for the North Carolina Opera, Cassio *Otello* and Inside the Orchestra with the Minnesota Orchestra, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Utah Symphony, Beethoven *Missa Solemnis* with Orchestra Iowa, Mozart *Requiem* with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Crescendo with Indianapolis Opera and a New Year’s Eve Gala with the Jacksonville Symphony.

Current engagements include Nemorino *L’elisir d’amore* for Boston Midsummer Opera, Edgardo *Lucia di Lammermoor* for Opera Colorado, Haroun *Djamileh* at the 2017 Beethoven Easter Festival, Count Almaviva *The Barber of Seville* for Opera Memphis, Macduff *Macbeth* for Opera San Antonio, The Duke of Mantua *Rigoletto* with Syracuse Opera and Christmas Concerts with Madison Symphony Orchestra.
