Jamie Barton, mezzo-soprano

The Schissler Foundation Fellow

Giovanna in Verdi's Rigoletto
Mary Norton in Previn's Brief Encounter

Previous Engagements at HGO:

• Ursula in the High School Night performances of Berlioz's Beatrice and Benedict (2008)
• Third Lady in The Magic Flute (2008)
• Soloist in Christopher Theofanidis’s The Refuge (2007)
  

Recent Engagements:

• Suzuki in Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s Puccini's Madama Butterfly
• The Witch in Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel at Aspen Opera Theater
• Annina in Verdi's La traviata at Opera Theatre of St. Louis
• Tisbe in Rossini's La Cenerentola and Mrs. Soames in the world premiere of Ned Rorem’s Our Town at Indiana University Opera Theater
  

Awards/Accolades/Recordings:

• A winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

Did you Know?

• Ms. Barton is a second year Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist
• She opened the 2007 – 08 Marilyn Horne Foundation On Wings of Song recital series with pianist Kathleen Kelly. She made her Weill Hall recital debut in a duo recital presented by the Marilyn Horne Foundation in January of 2009, and will return to Weill Hall in concert with Ms. Kelly once again in March of 2010.
• Ms. Barton will also appear in the recital “An Evening of Goethe” at Rienzi this May