Barbara Kendall-Davies’ operatic career lasted from 1965 to 1995 and included the first Glyndebourne tour and a season in Sussex, as well as seasons at Covent Garden in Moses and Aaron, Boris Godonov and Carmen. She also sang at Lille and Marseilles Opera and toured Germany, Switzerland and Japan. She performed principal roles with numerous smaller opera companies and toured throughout the British Isles from 1965 to 1985 with The Apollo Group of London, of which she was a founder member and Artistic Director. She is married to baritone, Christopher Davies, and their son Giles is also a singer.
''As a former singer, Barbara Kendall-Davies has considerable technical knowledge and writes perceptively about singing. The book is a result of years of travel and research and many wonderful images illustrate its pages. There is much of interest here for music lovers since the age of romanticism is covered extensively and Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Gounod, Berlioz, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Faure and Wagner all cross paths with our protagonist. Pauline Viardot Garcia and her legendary friend, Ivan Turgenev, are at the core of the world that Kendall-Davies ably documents.'' - Harold Bruder, The Record Collector, 58:1 (March 2013), 58-59."Viardot’s position in the mid-19th century operatic world was undoubtedly important, and Kendall-Davies demonstrates in great detail the full amplitude of her social connections and influence. Indeed, with a circle of friends and colleagues (not to mention putative lovers) that reads like a roll-call from the cultural pantheon of the time, Viardot is the sort of figure many opera-lovers might wish they had been able to meet." - Flora Wilson, Opera, 2 (September 2013), 1216-1217.
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