The World on a String: Talking to Jamie Barton
Parterre Box
June 2013
American mezzo Jamie Barton, who has steadily been winning fans in the US over the past few years for her rich and nuanced singing, took the international opera world by storm last weekend by winning both the Song Prize as well as the overall prize in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Watching her final program of arias from Adriana Lecouvreur, Hansel und Gretel, and Berlioz’s Les Troyens, along with a song by Sibelius, it’s hard to imagine how the international jury that included Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Dame Felicity Palmer, Neil Shicoff and Håkan Hagegård could have chosen anyone else.
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Meet the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World
NPR Deceptive Cadence
June 2013
Sunday in Cardiff, Wales, young American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton joined an elite cadre of classical artists as the newest winner of the highly prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Barton also took home the 2013 Song Prize. While the 31-year-old Barton won £15,000, Cardiff is more notable for its prestige and the exposure it offers.
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American Mezzo Jamie Barton Awarded Cardiff Singer of the World Prize
Opera News
June 2013
Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, 31, a native of Rome, Georgia, was named on Sunday as the winner of the BBC's Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, a biennial prize carrying a £15,000 purse.
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Sound Bites: Jamie Barton
Opera News
December 2010
Jamie Barton's full-lyric mezzo has a dusky yet brilliant tint that is occasionally reminiscent of Tatiana Troyanos. Mostly, Barton doesn't sound quite like anyone else, and a close look at her c.v. quickly makes it clear that she doesn't think quite like anyone else.
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IU's Jamie Barton named MET Opera winner
Indiana University Newsletter
April 2007
"You just cannot mistake Jamie's voice for any other singer. Everyone has a unique sound, but Jamie's timbre seems to extend a mile in every direction; dark and bright, soft and loud, serene and vivacious," Hart says. "The other enormous gift she has is something we call 'The Jamie Thing.' She can draw you into the music with amazing assurance. She also has a great sense of humor, and that infectious humor is appealing to audiences, even people who might be intimidated by a classically trained voice."
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