8. Jamie Barton on Catharsis - a podcast by WQXR & WNYC Studios
from 2019-09-17T12:00
“It transports me back into this bedroom that I had as a kid. Sitting in my bay window, overlooking the field, leading up to the forest. There's nothing else out there.”
Opera singer Jamie Barton grew up in an isolated rural community in northwest Georgia. Her first listen to Chopin's Nocturne No. 21 in C Minor — found on a CD titledChopin and Champagne— began an obsession with classical music that turned her teenage alienation into a powerful sense of belonging to music and connection with its listeners, whoever they are and wherever they come from.
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Jamie Bartonis a mezzo-soprano. She is singing the part of Orfeo in the Metropolitan Opera’s fall production ofOrfeo& Euridice.
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Nocturne No. 21 by Frédéric Chopin
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