Barbara McAlister (born 1942) is a mezzo-soprano Native American opera singer from Muskogee, Oklahoma.
[1] She is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, a descendant of Old Tassel, and half German/Cherokee through her mother.
She aspired to be a country-western singer in her youth, but learned to love opera from her parents.
[2] She won the Loren Zachary Competition in Los Angeles, which launched her career.
[3] She has since performed in the opera houses of Passau, Koblenz, Bremerhaven, and most notably Flensburg, where she was engaged for a decade.