The American mezzo Jamie Barton has been awarded the Beverly Sills Prize, worth $50k and a further bump up the Met cast lists. Barton, 35, also holds the Richard Tucker award.
She sings Ježibaba in Dvorak’s Rusalka, which opens tomorrow.
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Well deserved. But the best career advice at the moment is for her to lose —a lot— of her corporeal weight lest the body fascists, which includes many a male opera queen, start losing interest.
After all, what good is a good voice if it can’t be objectified and then glamorized?