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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
61Non son cattivo Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 1.20

Type: recitativeVoice: bassLanguage: Italian

Roles: Alfonso
62Ma che sempre l'istesso Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.02

Type: recitativeVoice: S MzLanguage: Italian

Roles: Vitellia/Sesto
63Stelle per carita Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 1.10

Type: recitativeVoice: B S MzLanguage: Italian

Roles: Alfonso/Fiordiligi/Dorabella
64Sorella cosa dici? Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 2.03

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Dorabella/Fiordiligi
65Signora Dorabella Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 1.23

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Dorabella/Despina
66Je vais mourir Popularity:

Opera: Troyens, LesComposer: BerliozAct: 5.02

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: French

Roles: Didon
67Amico il passo affretta Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.04

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz S MzLanguage: Italian

Roles: Annio/Vitellia/Sesto
68Ah! non partite Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 1.29

Type: recitativeVoice: T Br B SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Ferrando/Guglielmo/Alfonso/Fiordiligi
69Ecco il punto Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.20

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Vitellia
70Non piangere idol mio Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 1.12

Type: recitativeVoice: B Mz Br T SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Alfonso/Dorabella/Guglielmo/Ferrando/Fiordiligi
71Time treads upon the hands of women Popularity:

Opera: The Rape of LucretiaComposer: BrittenAct:

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: English

Roles:
72Felice me Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.18

Type: recitativeVoice: S SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Servilia/Vitellia
73Il tutto deponete Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 2.06

Type: recitativeVoice: S Mz Br T B SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Fiordiligi/Dorabella/Guglielmo/Ferrando/Alfonso/Despina
74But death alas I cannot shun Popularity:

Opera: Dido and AeneasComposer: PurcellAct: 3.08-1

Type: aria,choirVoice: mezzo or sopranoLanguage: English

Roles: Dido
75Lo faro diro spietato Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 1.04-2

Type: ariaVoice: contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige
76Haste haste to town Popularity:

Opera: Dido and AeneasComposer: PurcellAct: 2.13

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: English

Roles: Belinda
77Vedrai Tito vedrai Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 1.20

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz B SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Annio/Publio/Vitellia
78Sesto che chiedi Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.04

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz B SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Sesto/Publio/Vitellia
79Sesto de tuoi delitti Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.23

Type: recitativeVoice: T Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Tito/Annio/Servilia
80Partir deggio o restar Popularity:

Opera: Clemenza di Tito, LaComposer: MozartAct: 2.03

Type: recitativeVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Sesto/Vitellia
81See our royal guest appears Popularity:

Opera: Dido and AeneasComposer: PurcellAct: 1.08

Type: duetVoice: S T/BrLanguage: English

Roles: Belinda/Aeneas
82La commedia e graziosa Popularity:

Opera: Cosi Fan TutteComposer: MozartAct: 1.14

Type: recitativeVoice: B T S MzLanguage: Italian

Roles: Alfonso/Ferrando/Fiordiligi/Dorabella
83Del german nel periglio Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 3.01-1

Type: recitativeVoice: cA cT/cALanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige/Unulfo
84E tu dice d'amarmi? Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 1.04-1

Type: recitativeVoice: cA BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige/Garibaldo
85Con opra giusta Popularity:

Opera: RodelindaComposer: HandelAct: 3.01-3

Type: recitativeVoice: contraltoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Eduige
86Che 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
87O tu, mia sola speme Popularity:

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

Type: duetVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Giulietta
88With drooping wings Cupids come Popularity:

Opera: Dido and AeneasComposer: PurcellAct: 3.11

Type: choirVoice: n/aLanguage: English

Roles:
89Si, fuggire; a noi non resta Popularity:

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

Type: duetVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Giulietta
90Soccorso, sostegno accordagli Popularity:

Opera: Capuleti ed i Montecchi, IComposer: BelliniAct: 1.11-2

Type: quintetVoice: S Mz T B BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Giulietta/Romeo/Tebaldo/Lorenzo/Capellio
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