Fleur Barron

Biography

Singaporean-British mezzo Fleur Barron recently performed at the San Francisco Symphony in the title role of Kaija Saariaho's opera Adriana Mater, in a production helmed by Peter Sellars and Esa-Pekka Salonen, and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival as Ottavia in Monterverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea. She is a current Rising Star of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and an Artistic Partner of the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias in Oviedo. Barron is mentored by Barbara Hannigan.

She launched the 23/24 season with a return to the London Symphony Orchestra, where she was the soloist in their Season Opening Concert at the Barbican, performing Claude Vivier's “Wo bist du Licht,” and in performances of Stravinsky's Pulcinella the following week, both under the baton of Barbara Hannigan.

In 23/24 Barron debuts three opera roles: Penelope in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with baroque ensemble I Gemelli; multiple roles in George Benjamin’s two-person opera Into the Little Hill with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Finnegan Downie Dear; and the title role of John the Baptist in Maria Margherita Grimani's baroque opera La Decollazione di San Giovanni Battista with Haymarket Opera in Chicago.

Born in Northern Ireland to a Singaporean mother and British father, Barron grew up in Hong Kong and later New York. She holds degrees from Columbia University (B.A. Comparative Literature) and Manhattan School of Music (M.M. Vocal Performance).