During the 2025-26 season for HGO, Butler Studio alumna Jamie Barton performs the roles of Frugola in Il tabarro, The Princess Aunt in Suor Angelica, and Zita in Gianni Schicchi, all part of Il trittico, as well as the role of the Witch in Hansel and Gretel. Barton appears regularly at HGO, including as Elizabeth Van Lew in the world premiere of Intelligence (2023), Leonor de Guzman in La favorite (2020), and Adalgisa in Norma (2018). Other HGO roles include Waltraute/Second Norn in Götterdämmerung (2017), and Fricka in Das Rheingold (2014) and Die Walküre (2015), all part of the Ring cycle. This season, Barton stars as Sister Helen Prejean in the 25th anniversary production of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at San Francisco Opera and Ježibaba in Rusalka at Bayerische Staatsoper and Opéra National de Paris. Elsewhere, she appears in concert with Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and Minnesota Orchestra, and in recital with Arizona Opera and the Tucson Desert Song Festival. In recognition of her performance at the Last Night of the Proms, Barton was named 2020 Personality of the Year at the BBC Music Magazine Awards. She is also the winner of the International Opera Awards Readers’ Award, Beverly Sills Artist Award, Richard Tucker Award, and BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. Winner of the BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award, Barton’s debut solo album, All Who Wander, featuring songs by Mahler, Dvorak, and Sibelius, was also shortlisted for the International Classical Music Awards and Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Most recently, Unexpected Shadows, her album with composer and pianist Jake Heggie, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.