Celebrated Singer/Actress Donates Her Time And Talent To Her Home Town
Barbara Dunn Prosser’s performing career has been a versatile one. Opera credits include Ophélie in Hamlet, Fanny in La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Mme Goldentrill in The Impresario and Rosalinda and Adele in Die Fledermaus. Musical theatre highlights include Eliza in My Fair Lady, Margot in The Desert Song, The Mistress in Evita and the title role in Gigi. She has also played such non-musical roles as Jan in I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Mollie in The Mousetrap, Jennifer Dubedat in The Doctor’s Dilemma and both Amanda and Sybil in Private Lives.
In addition to performing Carlotta in both the touring and Toronto productions of The Phantom of the Opera, Barbara starred opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Donna Elvira in Rhombus Media’s award-winning film of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. She spent several seasons with the Canadian Opera Company and the Stratford Festival and has been a featured soloist with symphony orchestras across North America. For the Stratford Symphony, she sang Josephine in a concert version of HMS Pinafore and Peep Bo in The Mikado. In 2002, she released her CD Till We Meet Again.
Barbara toured southern Ontario with her one-woman show Come to the Woods, about pioneer artist and writer Anne Langton, and also created and performed a second one-woman show, Lest We Forget, based on letters from the front by Canadian soldiers from rural Ontario.
Barbara is a professor emeritus of voice at Western University in London and now teaches privately in Stratford. She is member of the College of Examiners for the Royal Conservatory of Music, Academic Liaison for the Ontario Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, and a music festival adjudicator.
She is returning to her home town on Sunday October 20, to present “You Must Remember This” a dramatic historical presentation. You will hear Barbara sing “You Must Remember This” but with lyrics she composed that relate to historical events of Fenelon Falls, 150 years since it was first incorporated in 1874. In her one woman show Barbara will take us on a journey of remembrance of people, places and events that helped shape the character and history of the village;
The arrival of the railway, the importance of logging and mills, and the building of the canal were things that deeply affected the commerce and culture of the community. The strengthening of community spirit, of welcome and inclusivity, is evident in events like the Fenelon Fair and Santa Day. Local heroes like Garnett Graham and Gladys Suggitt and others are remembered and celebrated for their generosity and good will. With song and script Barbara brings to life some of the highlights of Fenelon’s history and makes it clear why this special village is so aptly called “The Jewel of the Kawarthas”.
"You Must Remember This.." a FREE dramatic historical presentation by Barbara Dunn-Prosser, 7pm, Sunday October 20, St. James Anglican Church, Bond St. E. Refreshments will be served.
