Oh my goddess!
Die Walküre crystallizes the cycle’s questions, ideas, and stakes.
Jamie Barton
69 pieces since 2009 — in 21 roles, at 16 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
69
pieces
21
roles
16
companies
18
years
By role
By company
Metropolitan Opera 14
San Francisco Opera 7
Washington National Opera 3
Lyric Opera of Chicago 2
Bayerische Staatsoper 1
Chicago Lyric Opera 1
Collegiate Chorale 1
Houston Grand Opera 1
LA Opera 1
New York Philharmonic 1
Opera Philadelphia 1
Palais Garnier 1
Philadelphia Orchestra 1
Richard Tucker Gala 1
Royal Albert Hall 1
Tanglewood Festival Chorus 1
5 pieces as Fricka — stats above show all coverage for Jamie Barton.
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Domino theory
The Metropolitan Opera delivers on the promise of Wagner’s Gesamtkunswerk in a revival of Robert Lepage’s Ring.
The hipster demigoddess
If Das Rheingold is an opera about infinitude, the illusory idea that the world is large enough to satisfy all of our desires, passions, and lusts, Die Walküre is an opera about scarcity.
And three for Mahler
A poster outside Carnegie Hall proclaimed “Mahler Well Met” and to some degree it proved to be true.
In the River Rhine. In it.
It is always a pleasure to hear a great orchestra take on a major score that might sound half-muffled emerging from the pit of an opera house.
Win a Free Ticket to Opening Night at the Met!
Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star in the Met's new Macbeth. We're giving away one ticket, so screw your courage to the sticking place and enter now!
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
