Golden Gate Opera - Marin County Opera

Scenic Designer is a Fine Arts Graduate of the California State University system and the University of the Pacific and has extensive design and scenic art experience. Her initial exposure to opera design was in a production of La Bohème, which left her with an abiding love of design for the Italian repertoire. Talented in the multiple disciplines of watercolors, sculpture, and drawing, as well as interior design.

Ms. Barton is a mezzo-soprano and has toured Europe in addition to performing in Northern California with various choral societies. For Golden Gate Opera she has designed, in the style of Historic Realism, the 1299 set for Gianni Schicchi, the 1950s set for The Telephone, the 1905 set for Madama Butterfly and the 1820 set for Carmen.