Barton, Jamie

(Rome, Georgia)

2025–26 Season: Sister Helen Prejean, Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Adalgisa in Norma; Fricka in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre; Waltraute and Second Norn in Götterdämmerung; Ježibaba in Rusalka; In Song: Jamie Barton

Recent and Upcoming: Frugola, Zita, Zia Principessa in Il Trittico (Houston Grand Opera); Witch in Hansel and Gretel (Houston); Ježibaba in Rusalka (Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Paris Opera); concerts (Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra); recitals (Arizona Opera, Tucson Desert Song Festival); Elizabeth Van Lew in Jake Heggie’s Intelligence (Houston); Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmelites (Metropolitan Opera); Orfeo in Orfeo ed Euridice (Metropolitan Opera); Baba the Turk in The Rake’s Progress (Paris); Leonor in La Favorite (Houston); Adalgisa in Norma (Houston); Fricka in the Ring cycle (Metropolitan Opera); Eboli in Don Carlo (Washington National Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Amneris in Aida (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Madrid’s Teatro Real); Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Munich, Santa Fe Opera); Julia Child in Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appétit! (Houston); Nettie Fowler in Carousel (Boston Lyric Opera); title role in a queer Carmen (Chicago Opera Theater); Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking (Atlanta Opera)

Beverly Sills Artist Award: 2017

Richard Tucker Award: 2015

Winner of Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions: 2007

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