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Janet Baker

Singer details:

Voice: Mezzo-soprano
Nationality: English
Year of Birth: 1933

About Janet Baker:

Dame Janet Abbott Baker CH DBE FRSA (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.

She was particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which spanned the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Dame Janet was noted for her interpretations of the music of Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar. David Gutman, writing in Gramophone, described her performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder as "intimate, almost self-communing."

Janet Abbott Baker was born in Hatfield, South Yorkshire, where her father was an engineer as well as a chorister. Members of her family worked at Bentley Pit, in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She attended York College for Girls and then Wintringham Girls' Grammar School in Grimsby. The death of her elder brother, Peter, when she was 10 years old, from a heart condition, was a formative moment that made her take responsibility for the rest of her life, she revealed in a BBC Radio 3 Lebrecht Interview in September 2011.

In her early years Baker worked in a bank, transferring to London in 1953 where she trained with Meriel St Clair and Helene Isepp, whose son Martin became her regular accompanist. Knocked down by a bus in 1956, she suffered concussion and a persistently painful back injury. That same year, she came second in the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Competition at the Wigmore Hall, winning national attention.

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Nr.Title scenePopularityOperaComposerActTypeVoicesLang.Roles
1Je vais mourir Popularity:

Opera: Troyens, LesComposer: BerliozAct: 5.02

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: French

Roles: Didon
2Time treads upon the hands of women Popularity:

Opera: The Rape of LucretiaComposer: BrittenAct:

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: English

Roles:
3Plaisir d'amour Popularity:

Opera: Tedesco, IlComposer: MartiniAct:

Type: Voice: sopranoLanguage: French

Roles:
4Sono all'ara Popularity:

Opera: Straniera, LaComposer: BelliniAct: 2.12

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Alaide
5La straniera 1 Popularity:

Opera: Straniera, LaComposer: BelliniAct: 1.07

Type: duet,choirVoice: Mz BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Isoletta/Montolino
6Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix Popularity:

Opera: Samson et DalilaComposer: Saint-SaënsAct: 2

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: French

Roles: Dalila
7Lo faro diro spietato Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 1.04-2

Type: ariaVoice: contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige
8Con opra giusta Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 3.01-3

Type: recitativeVoice: contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige
9De miei scherni perfar le vendette Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 2.02-2

Type: ariaVoice: contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige
10Pompe vane di morte! Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 1.06-1

Type: recitativeVoice: countertenor or contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Bertarido
11Del german nel periglio Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 3.01-1

Type: recitativeVoice: cA cT/cALanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige/Unulfo
12Dove sei? Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 1.06-2

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Bertarido
13E tu dice d'amarmi? Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 1.04-1

Type: recitativeVoice: cA BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige/Garibaldo
14Ah crudel il pianto mio Popularity:

Opera: RinaldoComposer: HandelAct: 2.08-2

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Armida
15O del mio dolce ardor Popularity:

Opera: Paride ed ElenaComposer: GluckAct:

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Paride
16Fammi combattere Popularity:

Opera: OrlandoComposer: HandelAct: 1.20

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Orlando
17Che faro senza Euridice Popularity:

Opera: Orfeo ed EuridiceComposer: GluckAct: 3

Type: ariaVoice: mezzo or tenorLanguage: Italian

Roles: Orfeo
18Che fiero momento Popularity:

Opera: Orfeo ed EuridiceComposer: GluckAct: 3

Type: duetVoice: S T/MzLanguage: Italian

Roles: Euridice/Orfeo
19Che puro ciel Popularity:

Opera: Orfeo ed EuridiceComposer: GluckAct: 2

Type: ariaVoice: mezzo or tenorLanguage: Italian

Roles: Orfeo
20Un moto di gioia Popularity:

Opera: Nozze di Figaro, LeComposer: MozartAct: 2.06-2

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Susanna
21Non cet affreux devoir Popularity:

Opera: Iphigénie en TaurideComposer: GluckAct:

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: French

Roles:
22Quel torrente che cade dal monte Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 3.07-2

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare
23Al lampo dell armi Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 2.12

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare
24Empio diro tu sei togliti Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 1.04

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare
25Aure deh per pieta Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 3.05-2

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare
26Va tacito e nascosto Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 1.18

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare/Achilla/Cesare/Cornelia/Sesto
27Se in fiorito ameno prato Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 2.04

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare
28Dell amor mio fedele Popularity:

Opera: Fedelta Premiata, LaComposer: HaydnAct: 2.21

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Amaranta
29Thy hand Belinda when I am laid Popularity:

Opera: Dido and AeneasComposer: PurcellAct: 3.09

Type: ariaVoice: mezzo or sopranoLanguage: English

Roles: Dido
30Whence could so much virtue spring Popularity:

Opera: Dido and AeneasComposer: PurcellAct: 1.06

Type: duetVoice: Mz/S SLanguage: English

Roles: Dido/Belinda
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