Windy City Times
December 2014

Mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton knew that she would need plenty of plain old luck on top of her considerable talents to forge a career as a professional opera singer. But in Barton's case, winning a number of impressive opera vocal competitions particularly helped. "For me the three big launching points in my career have been because of competitions," said Barton, back again in the Windy City rehearsing her role debut as Giovanna Seymour (Jane Seymour) in the Lyric Opera of Chicago's new co-production with Minnesota Opera of Donizetti's 1830 tragedy Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn).

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Instant Encore: Classical Music Buzz
October 2014

After a wildly successful role debut of Adalgisa at the Metropolitan Opera in the fall of 2013, Jamie Barton returns to the role this fall in our season opening production of Norma. Her San Francisco Opera debut has been similarly successful leaving critics raving that her performance was "a magnificent Company debut with gleaming vocal tone and emotional urgency" (San Francisco Chronicle). All successes aside, Barton's charming personality shined in this brief interview.

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OperaRox
October 2013

Last night, I had the express pleasure and honor of interviewing mezzo Jamie Barton regarding her experiences as a singer and her recital this Sunday.  Ms. Barton recently won the 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World competition and makes her role debut of Adalgisa (Norma) at the Metropolitan Opera this month.  She will be singing Fricka for the first time in Houston Grand Opera’s Das Rheingold in the Spring.

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Schimmel Center at Pace University
October 2013

On Sunday, November 3, Pace presents will welcome the inaugural performance of the Voce at Pace recital series. The series is a rare opportunity for New York audiences to see rising opera stars in an intimate recital setting. It is curated by Matthew A Epstein. We are very excited to have Jamie Barton kick off this intriguing new series. Pace Presents blogger Michael Torbet recently sat down with the young star to discuss her upcoming recital and her career thus far.

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Associated Press: The Big Story
October 2013

She's one of the most prodigiously gifted singers of her generation, but Jamie Barton has yet to tackle the leading operatic roles she was born to perform. Instead, for now she's playing a "waiting game." Barton, who just turned 32, has a gorgeous mezzo-soprano voice, a force-of-nature-sized instrument that is centered in the middle of the female vocal range, just below soprano. In her case, that range has extensions at either end — down to contralto territory and up to high C (a note she laughingly refers to as "my trick pony").

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