Barbara Honn, soprano, has performed in opera houses in Germany, Portugal, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the United States. A few of the roles that she has sung to critical acclaim are: Donna Anna, Don Giovanni; Amelia, Un Ballo in Maschera; Ariadne, Ariadne auf Naxos; Marie, Wozzeck; and Elizabeth, Tannhäuser. As recipient of the West Deutscher Rundfunk Award, she has been heard in radio performances of the Verdi Requiem, Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Dvorak's Requiem, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, and Mahler's Symphony No. 2, and Symphony No. 8 (Symphony of a Thousand). She was also awarded the Rheinisches Westfallen Medale die Kunst.

Mrs. Honn has been a Professor of Voice at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music since 1986. She serves as director of the Grandin Festival, a vocal/instrumental chamber music festival that is held annually in August.

Mrs. Honn has taught at the Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel; L'Opera Bastille, Paris, France; The American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria; Lucca Opera Theater, Lucca, Italy; The Institute of Vocal Arts, Chiari, Italy; Canta in Italy, Florence, Italy; Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas; The University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Glimmerglass Opera, New York and has also given master classes, concerts and recitals worldwide.

Mrs. Honn's students are teaching in universities and conservatories in the United States, Puerto Rico, Korea, Spain, China, Canada, and Belgium. She also has students that perform in Opera houses around the world such as: The Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Florida Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Spoleto Festival, United States and Italy; Staatsoper Hamburg, Cologne Opernhaus, Frankfurter Opernhaus in Germany: Staatsoper in Vienna, Austria; Covent Garden, London, England; and La Scala, Milan, Italy.