Frannie Barrows is a classically trained soprano with experience in opera and musical theater.
Frannie Barrows is a soprano from Rockport, Maine, living in the Denver area. She currently studies with tenor Jordan Schreiner and was recently an emerging artist with Sewanee Summer Music Festival OperaFest.
Since 2022, Frannie has sung in the Opera Colorado Chorus in productions of Cavalleria Rusticana, Die Tote Stadt, Turandot, and Der fliegende Holländer.
Frannie received her MM in Vocal Performance at the University of Arizona, and received her BM in Vocal Performance at the same institution. Both degrees were under the tutelage of Dr. Kristin Dauphinais. With the University of Arizona Opera Theater Frannie performed in productions of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (Gretel), the American premiere of Elena Langer’s Rhondda Rips it Up! (Sybil), Massenet’s Cendrillon (Noemie), Daniel Catan’s La Hija de Rappaccini (Flower/Beatriz cover), Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld (Cupid), Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges, and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, under the baton of Thomas Cockrell, Kristin Roach, and Michael Dauphinais. She also performed in multiple scenes from operas such as Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Konstanze), Der Schauspieldirektor (Mme. Herz), Susannah (Susannah), Faust (Marguerite), La Boheme (Mimi), Lakmé (Lakmé), The Crucible (Abigail), and Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna). Frannie also appeared in various events including The Tucson Desert Song Festival and as a soloist in Mozart's Coronation Mass. In 2019 Frannie placed 2nd in the Amelia Rieman competition and in 2018 she placed 2nd in the Opera Guild of Southern Arizona's annual Quest for the Best competition.
Frannie sang with Spotlight on Opera in summer 2021. She covered the roles of Violetta and Flora in La Traviata. She also performed as Lucia in the opera scenes program as well as in concerts for their weekend concert series. In July 2019 Frannie trained at Lyric Opera Studio Weimar and performed as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte in Weimar, Germany, under the direction of Damon Nestor Ploumis and under the baton of Olaf Storbeck. During this time she also appeared in two orchestral concerts of opera scenes and arias with the Thüringer Symphoniker Saalfeld-Rudolstadt under the baton of Oliver Weder. In the summer of 2018, Frannie sang with Chicago Summer Opera as the Third Knitter in Samuel Barab's A Game of Chance and in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte as First Spirit and Queen of the Night (cover). At Chicago Summer Opera she studied with Allan Glassman and worked under the baton of Codrut Birsan. During the summer of 2017, Frannie trained in Salzburg, Austria, at the University of Miami Frost School of Music in Salzburg program. She performed in multiple concerts including a flash mob as part of the annual Salzburg Festival.
