Windy City Times
March 2024
Barton, who is bisexual, called Aida "a tragic love story about two star-crossed lovers whose countries are currently at war, set to some of the greatest music ever composed."
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Windy City Times
Taos News
January 2024
New York. London. Paris. Munich. Madrid. Chicago. San Francisco. All places where international opera star mezzo soprano Jamie Barton has performed in recent years. When Barton takes the stage at the Taos Community Auditorium on Saturday, January 13, we can add Taos to that list.
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Opera Now
October 2023
Intelligence, which premieres at Houston Grand Opera on 20 October, tells the story of Mary Jane Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew, real people who played pivotal but underrecognised roles that helped the Union win the war and abolish slavery.
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Houston Matters
October 2023
Amid the U.S. Civil War, as men took to the battlefield, two women set out to help the war effort from home… behind enemy lines in the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.
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Houstonia Magazine
October 2023
“In opera, women so often have been relegated to the muse, the love interest, the beauty, those sorts of things,” Barton says. “In this one, not only are both of the women, Elizabeth Van Lew and Mary Jane Bowser, absolutely, by definition, heroes, they are strong.”
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