Barton possesses a powerful mezzo-soprano that she can fashion to fit various demands, summoning up a hard amber sound when she needed to project authority, and finding a much softer, more lyrical note in her lamentations…

Mezzo Jamie Barton is already an international phenom with that dazzlingly creamy voice and commanding stage presence. As Waltraute, she shines most bright in an achingly beautiful mini-scene that displays her glorious voice to full effect…

It’s hard to find adjectives superlative enough to describe her voice: huge and sumptuous, but with such broad possibilities of color that the singer can chill the blood with just a glint of steel in the tone. Lurching, heaving and writhing nonstop, she looked as if she might any moment explode out of sheer malevolence…

Winner of the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Vocal Award; Nominated for International Classical Music Award; Best Vocal Recital Disc of 2016 on Voix des Arts; Shortlisted for Gramophone Classical Music Award

From her first entrance, Barton seized the audience with marvelous warmth and power, like the sudden introduction of a spine-stiffening rod…

Absolutely outstanding... the best vocal performance of the last two ASO seasons…

This was highly emotional and yet beautifully restrained singing that really got beneath the skin of the music…

Barton's tone was flawless, the sound was effortless and she magically wove her way in and out of the orchestral colour in a way that I've seen very few singers pull off. It was breathtaking…