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Jamie Barton

Mezzo-soprano

A winner of the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is a recent graduate of the Houston Grand Opera Studio. In the 2009-10 season, Ms. Barton debuts with the Metropolitan Opera as Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Emilia in Otello with the Canadian Opera Company, and returns to Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro. In concert, she will make her Kennedy Center debut in a recital with Kathleen Kelly, and returns to Carnegie Hall for her second Weill Hall recital. In the 2008-09 season, Ms. Barton appeared with the Houston Grand Opera as Ursula in Béatrice et Bénédict, Giovanna in Rigoletto, and Mrs. Rolandson in André Previn’s Brief Encounter. This past summer she joined the Wolf Trap Opera Company in the role of Penelope in Monteverdi‚s Il ritorno d‚Ulisse in Patria to great acclaim. With the Aspen Music Festival, Ms. Barton appeared in recital with bass-baritone Ryan McKinny, as well as a concert of Bernstein‚s Arias and Barcarolles with the Aspen Chamber Symphony under Murry Sidlin.

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