Growing as an artist & Verdi's timeless juggernaut
WFMT
March 2024
Jamie Barton has been performing at Lyric Opera of Chicago, which she describes as a “home house,” for more than a decade, since her second season as a professional opera singer. It’s a stage that has seen her artistry and career grow profoundly. As she returns to Lyric and takes on Amneris for the second time, WFMT checked in with Jamie Barton on growing as an artist and the richness of Verdi.
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Jamie Barton brings nuances of identity to her Lyric Opera 'Aida' performance
Windy City Times
March 2024
Barton, who is bisexual, called Aida "a tragic love story about two star-crossed lovers whose countries are currently at war, set to some of the greatest music ever composed."
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Jamie Barton at the TCA
Taos News
January 2024
New York. London. Paris. Munich. Madrid. Chicago. San Francisco. All places where international opera star mezzo soprano Jamie Barton has performed in recent years. When Barton takes the stage at the Taos Community Auditorium on Saturday, January 13, we can add Taos to that list.
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Risking everything: the story behind Heggie's new opera, Intelligence
Opera Now
October 2023
Intelligence, which premieres at Houston Grand Opera on 20 October, tells the story of Mary Jane Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew, real people who played pivotal but underrecognised roles that helped the Union win the war and abolish slavery.
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A new opera celebrates two hidden figures of Civil War history
Houston Matters
October 2023
Amid the U.S. Civil War, as men took to the battlefield, two women set out to help the war effort from home… behind enemy lines in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
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