Barbara Pritchard, Ph.D., soprano, has appeared with the Arizona Opera Company in productions of Die Zauberflöte and La Traviata and the Opera Theater at the Pima Center for the Arts, where she sang as the Marschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Tosca(Tosca)and the Mother(Amahl and the Night Visitors).  She has been the soprano soloist in Arizona Opera previews sponsored by the Opera Guild of Southern Arizona, and in opera programs by the Oro Valley Arts Council, once even taking the stage for a soprano soloist who became ill minutes before the curtain rose for a program on Verdi’s operas.  Pritchard has been a guest soloist under Laszlo Veres for his “Opera Night” with the Tucson Pops Orchestra and The Foothills Phil, as well as with such ensembles as the Sons of Orpheus Men's Chorus.  She has been the featured opera soprano in I Cantori, an ensemble devoted to opera and musical theater that appears throughout Southern Arizona.  She recently collaborated on a duet recital with mezzo-soprano Korby Myrick, her fellow director of Passion Project: Opera! (PPO), and has appeared in PPO productions of L’amico Fritz, La Boheme(Leoncavallo), The Poisoned Kiss, and Suor Angelica/L’enfant prodigue. 

An invited lecturer at national and international organizations, Dr. Pritchard has combined her background as a Clinical Psychologist and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry to give lecture-recitals on applied psychoanalysis and opera.