For the speech processing researcher, see Janet M. Baker.
Dame
Janet Baker
CH DBE FRSA
Janet Baker in 1967
Born
Janet Abbott Baker
(1933-08-21) 21 August 1933 (age 90)
Hatfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Occupation
Opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
Years active
1950s–1980s
Awards
Order of the Companions of Honour
Order of the British Empire
Léonie Sonning Music Prize
Dame Janet Abbott BakerCH, DBE, FRSA (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.[1]
Baker is particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which lasted from 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, Baker 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".[2]
^Blyth, Alan, "Baker, Dame Janet (Abbott)" in Sadie, Stanley, ed.; John Tyrell; exec. ed. (2001). New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. London: Macmillan; ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5 (hardcover) OCLC 419285866 (eBook).
^David S. Gutman in Gramophone, April 1995, p. 60; retrieved 30 November 2009.
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