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date = "2016-03-22T13:21:00+00:00"
discipline = "Tenor"
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publishDate = "2016-03-22T13:21:00+00:00"
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slug = "michael-barrett"
title = "Michael Barrett"
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Born in Newfoundland, tenor Michael Barrett is a former member of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio. Performing regularly now for the COC, his engagements there include Third Jew in *Salome* and the First Commissary in *Dialogues of the Carmélites*, the Witch in the Canadian Opera Company’s touring production of *Hänsel and Gretel*, Monostatos in *Die Zauberflöte*, High Priest of Neptune in *Idomeneo*, El Remendado in *Carmen*, Lieutenant Bonnet and Aide de Camp to General Compans in *War and Peace*, First Prisoner in *Fidelio*, the Gamekeeper in *Rusalka*, Captain of Archers in *Simon Boccanegra*, Parpignol in *La bohème*, Snout in *A Midsummer Night's Dream* and Ferrando in the Ensemble Studio production of *Così fan tutte*. He was in the world premier of *Taptoo!* for Toronto Operetta Theatre, *Messiah* with the Newfoundland Symphony and at the University of Toronto Opera School he performed many roles including Nemorino in *L'elisir d'amore*, Male Chorus in *The Rape of Lucretia* and Eisenstein in *Die Fledermaus*. Michael regularly appears with the Aldeburgh Connection, where he performed in *Our Story* for the 25th Anniversary celebrations.

Further assignments include Spalanzani in *Les contes d'Hoffmann* for the COC and Quint in *The Turn of the Screw* for Against the Grain Theatre. He reprised the rolse of Spalanzani and Nathanael in *Les contes d'Hoffmann* for Edmonton Opera and later he returned as the Third Jew. Mr. Barrett recently sang Monostatos in *Die Zauberflöte* for Vancouver Opera and Saskatoon Opera, Basilio and Curzio in *Le nozze di Figaro* for Pacific Opera Victoria, Ottavio in *Don Giovanni* for Opera Nova Scotia reprised his Monostatos, this time for in Edmonton Opera’s *Die Zauberflöte*. He was most recently heard for the Vancouver Opera as the Beadle in *Sweeney Todd*.
