Wiltshire based singer Barbara Gompels graduated from St Mary’s Hospital Medical School London. She moved to the South West and became a G.P. Partner in Market Lavington Surgery. Singing has always been Barbara’s passion and soon after moving she began studying with Geraldine Aylmer-Kelly and more recently with Ian Comboy and Rosa Mannion. She gained a distinction in her Grade VII Singing Exam.
Barbara now regularly sings Solo for local Opera Groups including White Horse Opera and Opera Piccola as well as Oratorio, Concerts, Cabarets, Weddings, Funerals and Parties.
White Horse Opera has just finished its hugely successful tour with Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro in which Barbara played the part of the Countess. They performed to packed houses including two nights at the Salberg Theatre Salisbury Playhouse with a waiting list of 60!
Other roles include Olympia the Doll - Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann and Queen of the Night - Mozart’s Magic Flute.
Barbara has just been cast in the title role of Mrs Ford in White Horse Opera’s touring production of Nicolai’s Merry Wives of Windsor which already has eight bookings extending to January 2010.
In 2008 Barbara recorded her first CD.
Barbara has recently retired from Medicine to further her singing and to spend more time with her husband and three children.