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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
1Se al volto mai ti senti Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.05

Type: trioVoice: S Mz BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Vitellia/Sesto/Publio
2Come ti piace imponi Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.03

Type: duetVoice: S MzLanguage: Italian

Roles: Vitellia/Sesto
3Ma che sempre l'istesso Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.02

Type: recitativeVoice: S MzLanguage: Italian

Roles: Vitellia/Sesto
4Vengo aspettate Sesto Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.21

Type: trioVoice: S Mz BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Vitellia/Annio/Publio
5Ecco il punto Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.20

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Vitellia
6Sesto de tuoi delitti Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.23

Type: recitativeVoice: T Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Tito/Annio/Servilia
7Che miro? Il perfido Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 1.11-1

Type: sceneVoice: T B S Mz BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Tebaldo/Lorenzo/Giulietta/Romeo/Capellio
8Accorriam Romeo! Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 1.11-3

Type: sceneVoice: T B Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Tebaldo/Capellio/Romeo/Giulietta
9Un moto di gioia Popularity:

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

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Susanna
10Ruin'd ere the set of sun Popularity:

Opera: Dido and AeneasComposer: PurcellAct: 2.05

Type: recitativeVoice: mezzoLanguage: English

Roles: Sorceress
11E sgombro il loco Popularity:

Opera: Anna BolenaComposer: DonizettiAct: 1.18

Type: ariaVoice: contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Smeton
12Partir deggio o restar Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.03

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Sesto/Vitellia
13Sesto che chiedi Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.04

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz B SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Sesto/Publio/Vitellia
14Felice me Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.18

Type: recitativeVoice: S SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Servilia/Vitellia
15Lieto del dolce incarco Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 1.03-1

Type: sceneVoice: Mz T BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Tebaldo/Capellio
16Ella è morta Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 2.07-2

Type: duetVoice: Mz TLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Tebaldo
17Ecco la tomba Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 2.08-2

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo
18Vieni e in me riposa Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 1.06-3

Type: duetVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Giulietta
19O tu, mia sola speme Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 2.10

Type: duetVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Giulietta
20Si, fuggire; a noi non resta Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 1.06-2

Type: duetVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Giulietta
21Tu sola, o mia Giulietta Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 2.09

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo
22O del mio dolce ardor Popularity:

Opera: Paride ed ElenaComposer: GluckAct:

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Paride
23Fammi combattere Popularity:

Opera: OrlandoComposer: HandelAct: 1.20

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Orlando
24Che puro ciel Popularity:

Opera: Orfeo ed EuridiceComposer: GluckAct: 2

Type: ariaVoice: mezzo or tenorLanguage: Italian

Roles: Orfeo
25Che faro senza Euridice Popularity:

Opera: Orfeo ed EuridiceComposer: GluckAct: 3

Type: ariaVoice: mezzo or tenorLanguage: Italian

Roles: Orfeo
26D'amour l'ardente flamme Popularity:

Opera: Damnation de Faust, LaComposer: BerliozAct: 4

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: French

Roles: Marguerite
27Autrefois un roi de Thule Popularity:

Opera: Damnation de Faust, LaComposer: BerliozAct: 3

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: French

Roles: Marguerite
28La straniera 1 Popularity:

Opera: Straniera, LaComposer: BelliniAct: 1.07

Type: duet,choirVoice: Mz BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Isoletta/Montolino
29Va tacito e nascosto Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 1.18

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare/Achilla/Cesare/Cornelia/Sesto
30Al lampo dell armi Popularity:

Opera: Giulio CesareComposer: HandelAct: 2.12

Type: ariaVoice: countertenor or contralto or mezzoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Cesare
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