“Honestly, I am so happy I get to embody women who are not the patriarchal femme ideal… I love how absolutely queer this art form is and has been from the beginning. The queer community has shepherded this forward, from artists to administrators to audiences, we come honestly by those roots and I’m proud of that.”
Read MoreBarton doesn’t flinch at talking about those struggles [with ADHD] in public, for the same reason that she doesn’t shy away from talking about matters related to queerness and/or politics: “I’m just a big believer in trying to help others feel like they’re not alone,” said Barton, who joyfully waved a rainbow flag onstage while performing at the BBC’s widely broadcast Last Night of the Proms in 2019.
Read MoreThese days Jamie Barton’s glorious voice rings out from the world’s great opera stages. But while she crosses the globe for her career, she is still close with her family and community in the Northwest Georgia valley where she grew up.
Read MoreFrom the thunderous piano works of Chopin to the gargantuan symphonies of Mahler, classical music has no shortage of exhilarating moments that shake to the core. Classic(al) Rock is a playlist of works that, says Barton, “make you feel music from your roots up.”
Read MoreMezzo-soprano Jamie Barton chooses her perfect half hour of music for Pride Month including Ethel Smyth's Serenade conducted by Odaline de la Martinez, Handel's Ombra mai fu sung by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Bernstein's Serenade performed by Philippe Quint and Marin Alsop. Nicky Spence sings Ned Rorem's For Poulenc and we hear Poulenc's Gloria. There is is also music from Harold Arlen, Chopin and Saint-Saens.
Read MoreJamie 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.
Read MoreBarton, 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."
Read MoreNew 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.
Read MoreIntelligence, 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.
Read MoreAmid 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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