See Giovanna Run – A Chat with Anna Bolena's Mezzo Jamie Barton at the Met

Broadway World Opera
September 2015

With the season's first performance of Donizetti's ANNA BOLENA – that's Henry VIII's Anne Boleyn to all you Masterpiece Theatre fans – at the Met, the big news is that it's soprano Sondra Radvanovsky's first part of the Tudor Trilogy, with MARIA STUARDA and ROBERTO DEVEREUX to come later in the season. Alongside her, as Jane (here, Giovanna) Seymour, Boleyn's successor as consort to Henry, is mezzo Jamie Barton, this year's winner of the Richard Tucker Award, a past winner of the Met Council Auditions (and many other major awards) and a sensation when she sang her first big role at the Met two years ago, Adalgisa in Bellini's NORMA, opposite soprano Angela Meade.

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Beth Stewart
Opera Singer Jamie Barton Performs Atlanta Recital

City Lights
September 2015

Opera singer Jamie Barton is one of Georgia’s greatest talents. A Rome native and Atlanta resident, the mezzo-soprano won the prestigious BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2013 and the Richard Tucker Award earlier this year. She has graced opera houses and recital halls around the globe. Barton is gearing up for her role as Giovanna Seymour in “Anna Bolena” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, but she is also performing a new recital program in Atlanta next week. Barton spoke with "City Lights" executive producer Noel Morris about what she will be singing. 

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Beth Stewart
Atlanta Mezzo-Soprano Enjoying Spoils of Success

Atlanta Journal-Constitution
September 2015

It’s not often that the words “down-to-earth” and “opera star” are spoken in the same breath, but both terms fit mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton perfectly. The Rome native and Atlanta resident has kept her winningly level-headed and humble outlook, even as the past few years have brought her dazzling success.

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Beth Stewart