Barbara Pritchard, Ph.D., is a spinto soprano who discovered over time that her singing voice was suited to the opera repertoire she had come to love.  She 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 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.  Dr. 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!. She has been hailed for her rich spinto voice and her understanding of the psychological motivations of the characters she portrays.  She has combined her background as a Clinical Psychologist and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Banner-University of Arizona College of Medicine to give lecture-recitals on applied psychoanalysis and opera that illuminate not only the motivations of an opera’s characters, but its composer as well.  In that capacity, she gave an opera pre-talk on PPO’s recent opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle.  Organizations such as the Southwest Psychoanalytic Society have applauded the combination of her vocal and psychological talents in these entertaining and enlightening lectures.