The American mezzo Jamie Barton has enjoyed a close working relationship and friendship with the composer Jake Heggie since her Young Artist days... The pair’s obvious rapport and mutual affection comes across every bit as strongly in conversation as it does in their music-making together.
Read MoreAmerican mezzo Jamie Barton, a star of the Metropolitan Opera who brought the house down at the 2019 Last Night of the Proms, has just recorded her second recital album. Catching up with Clive Paget over the phone from her home in Atlanta, she talks about her musical love affair with Heggie and the joys and challenges of new music.
Read MoreBarton’s starting point with choosing art songs is the words. ‘The music is a beautiful tool, but the words are the most important. Absolutely,’ she says. ‘It’s one of the areas of this career where you really do have a hand in programming. I love looking into the audience and seeing them connect with the music.’
Read MoreNot only has Jamie Barton set the opera world alight with her magnificent voice, but the mezzo has used her stardom to promote tolerance and equal rights.
Read MoreThose operas and others vanished with the final eight weeks of the Met’s season. So we asked some of the singers who had been waiting years to perform them to give us some musical phrases that they — and we — lost. Here are their voices.
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