Upcoming

July 8, 2010 - 8:30pm

Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Davis Hart, piano

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Ford Hall

Dec. 21m, 24, 28m, 29m, 30m; Jan. 1, 3m, 6

Second Lady

The Magic Flute (english)

The Metropolitan Opera

March 27 and 29, 2011

Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Patrick Harvey, piano

Artist Series of Sarasota

Asolo Theater

April 29, May 1, 4, 7, 10 - 2011

Dryad

Ariadne auf Naxos

Houston Grand Opera

Audio | Images

Audio

"In the Beginning"
by Jake Heggie, from Of Gods and Cats
Live from The Front Row (KUHF, Houston NPR) - 1/7/2009

"Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredict"

(St. Anthony's Sermon to the Fish)
by Gustav Mahler, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Live from The Front Row (KUHF, Houston NPR) - 1/7/2009

"Uzh gasli fkomnah takh ogni"

(The Lights in the Room Were Dim)
by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Live from The Front Row (KUHF, Houston NPR) - 1/7/2009

"Give him ths orchid"

by Benjamin Britten from THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA

Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Keith Weber, piano

Recit and Aria: "Iris, hence away!"

by Handel from SEMELE

Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Keith Weber, piano

"Summer in Ohio"

by Jason Robert Brown from THE LAST 5 YEARS
Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Joseph Li, piano (Recorded for KUHF in Houston, TX)

"Something wonderful"

From THE KING AND I, sung as an encore at the opening recital for the Marilyn Horne Foundation's ON WINGS OF SONG recital series - October 7, 2007.  (Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Kathleen Kelly, piano)

"Big Sister Says, 1967 (A Honky-Tonk)"

By Libby Larsen, sung at the opening recital for the Marilyn Horne Foundation's ON WINGS OF SONG recital series - October 7, 2007 (Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano; Kathleen Kelly, piano)

 

Headshots

 

Photos

As Penelope in Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at Wolf Trap Opera

 All photos by Carol Pratt except first, by Eric Melear

 

Road Trip! recital with Steven Blier

With baritone Daniel Billings and tenor Dominic Armstrong.. Photos by Kim Witman

 

Vocal Colors recital at Wolf Trap Opera

With Jeremy Frank is the pianist. Photos by Kim Witman

 

Hansel and Gretel (Indiana University Opera Theatre)

 

La Cenerentola (Indiana University Opera Theatre)

 

HMS Pinafore (Indiana University Opera Theatre)

 

Our Town [world premiere performance, composer - Ned Rorem] (Indiana University Opera Theatre)

 

With Frederica von Stade at the premiere of Jake Heggie's LAST ACTS

With Evelyn Lear

 

With Mary Ann Hart/Maestro Marco Armiliato after the Met Opera National Council Awards Competition

With James Levine

Recent Press

Opera Theatre of St. Louis

The Marriage of Figaro

"Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton was terrific as Marcellina, hilariously dominating her scenes and singing with a big, beautiful voice."
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"...bass Matthew Lau and mezzo Jamie Barton make a wonderfully comic pair of connivers as Dr. Bartolo and Marcellina."
- KDHX.org

Great Singers III: Evenings of Song

Carnegie Hall, NYC

"Ms. Barton’s voice is exceptional—dark or bright, tender or powerful as she chooses—and her singing, from start to finish, displayed the kind of healthy, uncomplicated technical delivery that is equally rare in both young and seasoned artists. She has no detectable vocal quirks, mannerisms or crutches. Attacks are clean, unfussy and she can make a note bloom in any part of her range. She possesses a caliber of voice that doesn’t come along very often in the course of one’s lifetime and I, for one, hope to have the pleasure of hearing her for a long time to come."
- Operaticus.com

" Barton is a warm, smiling, effervescent presence with a uniquely colored instrument that seems to live on the higher edge of mezzo. She has a quick, bright vibrato that is often soprano-like, but she can also tap into dusky, French-horn-like tones. It's a quirky, fascinating voice, and for me, at least, Barton was at her most persuasive and distinctive on the second half of the program, in Libby Larsen's Love After 1950 and one cabaret song each by Satie, Schönberg and Bolcom. Barton's voice really came to life here; she was more consistent technically, and she delivered the songs with unerring style and self-aware humor."
- Opera News

Full articles may be viewed by clicking on the following links:
Operaticus
Opera News

Canadian Opera Company

Otello

"Having Jamie Barton perform Emilia is an example of luxury casting. When she finally does have her moment - in the final act when she reveals Iago’s subterfuge with the handkerchief - it really counts for something."
- ConcertoNet.com

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