Barbara Dever is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer who has appeared with Luciano Pavarotti, Pl�cido Domingo, Zubin Mehta, Nello Santi and James Levine. Dever made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1994, as Amneris in Aida. Other roles at the Met include Azucena in Il Trovatore, Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera, Eboli in Don Carlo, and Fricka in Die Walk�re. She has sung at the Washington Opera, New National Theater, Michigan Opera Theatre, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Massimo, La Scala, Vienna State Opera, Berlin State Opera, Teatro Col�n, Arena di Verona, Virginia Opera, and the Cincinnati Opera. Dever's performances have taken her to Montreal, Mexico City, Macerata, Parma, Reykjav�k, San Diego, Antwerp, Puerto Rico, Palermo, Vancouver, Santiago, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. She has performed with the State Symphony Orchestra of S�o Paulo, the Louisville Orchestra at Chautauqua, the Florida Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pacific Symphony, the Netherlands Radio Orchestra and the National Orchestra of Mexico. Dever sang at a Lincoln Center live concert telecast with Pavarotti and performed the role of Dalila opposite Pl�cido Domingo's Samson in 1998. 

December 25th, 1951 in (Age 72)