Jamie Barton; "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen"; RÜCKERT-LIEDER; Gustav Mahler

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Jamie Barton--mezzo-soprano
Brian Zeger--piano
2016
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BBC Music MagazineMay 2017
A gorgeous debut from the 2013 Cardiff Singer of the World. Her rich, soulful mezzo draws out Mahler’s dark colours and soars in Sibelius’s snowy miniatures.
5 out of 5 stars
Gramophone MagazineFebruary 2017
The voice is rich, generous and vibrant, big but beautifully controlled, impeccably smooth throughout its range. It’s the sort of instrument you could listen to all day, in any sort of repertoire...The disc’s highlight, though, is the Sibelius, in which the mezzo pours her heart into grand, soaring accounts of some of the composer’s most seductive songs.
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"Critically acclaimed by virtually every major outlet covering classical music, American mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton is increasingly recognized for how she uses her powerful instrument offstage - lifting up women, queer people, and other marginalized communities. Her lively social media presence on Instagram and Twitter (@jbartonmezzo) serves as a hub for conversations about body positivity, social justice issues, and LGBTQ+ rights. She is proud to volunteer with Turn The Spotlight, an organization working to identify, nurture, and empower leaders among women and people of color - and in turn, to illuminate the path to a more equitable future in the arts.
In recognition of her iconic performance at the Last Night of the Proms, Ms. 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, for which The Guardian described her as “a great artist, no question, with an imperturbable steadiness of tone, and a nobility of utterance that invites comparison not so much with her contemporaries as with mid-20th century greats such as Kirsten Flagstad.”
In the 2022/23 season, Ms. Barton makes a hotly anticipated role debut as Amneris in Aida at Teatro Real Madrid and brings her acclaimed interpretation of Azucena to Il trovatore at Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She performs as Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at Bayerische Staatsoper and appears with European orchestras in Prague, Czech Republic, and Valencia, Spain. She also returns to the BBC Proms with the London Philharmonic Orchestra for her debut as the Angel in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and makes her house debut as Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Metropolitan Opera.
Ms. Barton’s 2007 win at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions launched a major international career that includes leading roles at many of the world’s most-loved opera houses. In addition to her role debut as Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice at the Met, she has recently performed as Leonor (La favorite) at Teatro Real Madrid and Houston Grand Opera; Adalgisa (Norma) with the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and San Francisco Opera; Fricka and Waltraute (Wagner’s Ring cycle) at Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and Washington National Opera; Azucena (Il trovatore) at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bayerische Staatsoper, and Cincinnati Opera; Princess Eboli (Don Carlo) at Washington National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Met; Giovanna Seymour (Anna Bolena) at Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Met; Brangäne (Tristan und Isolde) at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Santa Fe Opera, Cornelia (Giulio Cesare) at Oper Frankfurt; Julia Child (Bon Appétit!) at Houston Grand Opera and Opera Philadelphia, Jezibaba (Rusalka) at San Francisco Opera and the Met; the title role in a queer Carmen at Chicago Opera Theater; and Sister Helen Prejean (Dead Man Walking) at her hometown opera company, Atlanta Opera.
Praised by Gramophone as having “the sort of instrument you could listen to all day, in any sort of repertoire,” Ms. Barton has appeared in concert with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Rotterdam Philharmonic, as well as the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Iceland, London, Oulu, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. She has performed with Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax at Tanglewood, and in recital across the U.S. and U.K., including tours with pianists Kathleen Kelly, Bradley Moore, and James Baillieu, with appearances at London’s Barbican Centre, Carnegie Hall, Celebrity Series of Boston, John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, and Wigmore Hall.
Winner of the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award, Ms. 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. . "; jamiebartonmezzo.com