Metropolitan Opera
Ms. Barton is a dynamo of a singer, wielding a large, deeply colored voice that never sounds heavy or ponderous...Read More
Carnegie Hall
Barton controlled a jaw-dropping, wine-dark contralto sound with sovereign suavity...Read More
Pace University Recital Series
Her tone was remarkably consistent — as warm and full yet flexible and breathable as cashmere — from the piercing top to the simmering bottom of her range...Read More
Metropolitan Opera
As for Barton, she is a fresh wonder of the opera world, possessing a voice of preternatural beauty and power...Read More
Read MoreShe is a great artist, no question, with an imperturbable steadiness of tone, and a nobility of utterance that invites comparison not so much with her contemporaries as with mid-20th century greats such as Kirsten Flagstad…
Opera Memphis
Singers like Barton put such soul and character into the music, that one opens up to unfamiliar opera just a little bit more...Read More
The Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall
Her warm, rich voice was well suited to the music, and she showed fire and feistiness...Read More
Ars Lyrica
Read MoreJamie Barton is well on the way to an important career, and commands a fine, rounded, dark mezzo, which she employs here with admirable agility…