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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
91Ah crudel il pianto mio Popularity:

Opera: RinaldoComposer: HandelAct: 2.08-2

Type: ariaVoice: sopranoLanguage: Italian

Roles: Armida
92Accorriam Romeo! Popularity:

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

Type: sceneVoice: T B Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Tebaldo/Capellio/Romeo/Giulietta
93Vieni e in me riposa Popularity:

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

Type: duetVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Giulietta
94Ella è morta Popularity:

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

Type: duetVoice: Mz TLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Tebaldo
95Lieto del dolce incarco Popularity:

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

Type: sceneVoice: Mz T BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Tebaldo/Capellio
96La straniera 1 Popularity:

Opera: Straniera, LaComposer: BelliniAct: 1.07

Type: duet,choirVoice: Mz BLanguage: Italian

Roles: Isoletta/Montolino
97Non cet affreux devoir Popularity:

Opera: Iphigénie en TaurideComposer: GluckAct:

Type: ariaVoice: mezzoLanguage: French

Roles:
98Che 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
99O tu, mia sola speme Popularity:

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

Type: duetVoice: Mz SLanguage: Italian

Roles: Romeo/Giulietta
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