Washington National Opera
Read MoreJamie Barton is enthralling as she sings so expressively meshing her emotions to each corresponding note with fluidity and ease ... One is held spellbound…
Oper Frankfurt
Barton got the biggest applause of the evening. Her big voice, expressivity and charisma gave great expression to Cornelia’s sadness...Read More
San Francisco Performances
Hearing American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton in her San Francisco Performances recital Wednesday evening, at least one listener had to ask: Is there anything this artist can't sing?Read More
LA Opera
Read MoreThe kind of music-making one dreams of... Barton's voice exuded a buttery warmth and sumptuous tone…
Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall
Read MoreBarton is a worthy winner of this prize—her mezzo soprano is rich and luscious. It definitely stands out among the hordes of slender lyric mezzos that populate the opera scene... Didon showed off an artist ready for the greatest mezzo roles…
Metropolitan Opera
Read MoreThe superb mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton’s sumptuous voice has utterly unforced carrying power. Ms. Barton’s Giovanna held her own, trading fiery phrases and bursts of skittish passagework, and was even more affecting during tender moments, when Ms. Barton demonstrated how to send a long-lined Donizetti phrase wafting through the house. At 33, she seems poised for greatness…
Ars Lyrica Houston
Read MoreAward-winning American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, whose assured and eloquent vocalism provided a strong start to Ars Lyrica Houston’s 2015 ̶16, probably doesn’t sing much medieval or Renaissance music. Her potent voice is more suited to the opera stage or recital platform than to the choir loft. But the rest of Western classical music seems to be her oyster…
The Greene Space
Read MoreWhen I heard mezzo Jamie Barton at the Metropolitan Opera's recital in Central Park in the summer of 2014, she would have knocked my socks off--if I hadn't been wearing sandals. This time around--newly anointed winner of the 2015 Richard Tucker Award--at a concert presented by WQXR at New York's Greene Space in SoHo, I was wearing my argyles and, sure enough, I went home barefoot. Barton proved, once again, that she's 'the real thing'…