Barry Mora (1940-2021) was a New Zealand classical baritone who had an active international career in concerts and operas from the mid-1970s through the 1990s. Retired from the stage, was at one time a member of the board at The NBR New Zealand Opera.
Barry studied singing in London with Otakar Kraus and John Matthews. He began his career as a member of the Gelsenkirchen Opera House from 1976 until 1980, making his professional debut as Anckarström in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. In 1980 he joined the Frankurt Opera House where he had a highly successful career for the next nine years. He thereafter worked as a freelance artist internationally. Mora has performed as a guest artist with De Nederlandse Opera, the Edinburgh Festival, La Monnaie, the Royal Opera, London, the Scottish Opera, Theater Aachen, the Vancouver Opera, and the Welsh National Opera among others.
The Opera Houses Barry & his ‘Wing-Girl’, Di, called home.
Covent Garden, London - Scottish Opera , Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen - Welsh Opera, all over Wales
Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin (Deutsche Oper), Frankfurt, Dusseldorf (Deutsche Oper am Rhein)
Zurich - Barcelona, Liceu - Buenos Aires, Theatre Colon - Copenhage, Danish Opera
New York, Jerusalem
Gelsenkirchen, Essen, Heidelberg, Dortmund, Wiesbaden, Giessen, Bielefeld, Karlsruhe, Aachen, Berlin
Australian Opera - Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide
NZ Opera - Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland
As well as multiple, multiple concert halls and even a castle ruin thrown in with Camina Burana.
A few of the Roles Barry performed
Conte di Luna: Iltrovatore (Frankfurt, Wellington); Rodrigo: Don Carlos (Gelsenkirchen, Copenhagen, Aachen); Renato: Ballo in maschera (Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Wellington, Canterbury); Germont: La traviata (WNO,Vancouver, Wellington, Liceu Barcelona, Canterbury); Ford: Falstaff (Frankfurt, WNO); Rigoletto (Gelsenkirchen, Wellington, Düsseldorf); Sharpless: Madama Butterfly(Frankfurt, Taipei, Wellington, Canterbury, NZO); Ping: Turandot, Balstrode: Peter Grimes (Wellington); Marcello: La b e Makropoulos Case (OperaAustralia); Schigolch: Wozzeck (Opera Australia, Teatro Colón Buenos Aires); Alidoro: La cenerentola (Opera Australia, NZO); Faninal: Der Rosenkavalier (Opera Australia, NZ Festival, WNO); Harlekin: Ariadne auf Naxos, Speaker: The Magic Flute (Gelsenkirchen, Frankfurt); Musiklehrer, Ariadne auf Naxos (Barcelona, WNO); Don Alfonso: Così fan tutte (WNO, Victorian State Opera, Barcelona, Wellington, Canterbury); Forester: The Cunning Little Vixen (Gelsenkirchen, WNO); Escamillo: Carmen (Gelsenkirchen, Bielefeld).
