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Janet Baker
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British opera and concert singer
OverviewAI-generated
Janet Baker was a British mezzo-soprano opera singer, composer, diarist, and autobiographer. Born in Hatfield in 1933, she began her professional work period in 1956 and continued until 1989. She recorded for the Decca, EMI, Philips Records, and His Master's Voice labels, performing classical music primarily in the English language.
Her career was recognized with several awards, including the Léonie Sonning Music Prize, the International Opera Award, the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and Fellowship in the Royal Society of Arts. In addition to her musical performances, she authored thirty works, with notable titles including *Full Circle* and *Changing Cultures*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 30
Top works
- Full circle
- Changing cultures, immigrant artists from China
- Run
- The transition of state normal schools to teachers colleges
- Kindergarten
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Known for
- Janet Baker: In Her Own Words — Herself2019
- Jacqueline du Pré: A Gift Beyond Words — Self2017
- 10 Best Elgar — Self (archive footage)2007
- Kathleen Ferrier: An Ordinary Diva — Self2003
- Ken Russell's ABC of British Music — Self (archive)1988
- The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein — Self1985
- Julius Caesar1984
- Donizetti : Mary Stuart — Mary Stuart1982
- Orfeo ed Euridice1982
- Dame Janet Baker Sings — Self (archive footage)1981
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1933
Discography
- The 100 Greatest Recordings Of All Time 81/82 : Music of Faith1980
- Songs for Sunday1981
- Arie Amorose1992
- Dame Janet Baker Sings Fauré • Schubert & Strauss • English Song1994
- From the Diary of Virginia Woolf1997
- The Very Best of Janet Baker2002
- Philips And Decca Recordings 1961-19792003
- The Legendary Dame Janet Baker2003
- The Great Voice of Dame Janet Baker2005
- Janet Baker: The Beloved Mezzo2008
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,426
- Total plays
- 35,919
Tags
Dame Janet Baker (born August 21, 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 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 Hector Berlioz's magnum opus
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Janet
- Family name
- Baker
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Hatfield
- Occupation
- diarist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Grammy Awards
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- His Master's Voice
- Image
- Janet Baker (1967).jpg
- Voice type
- mezzo-soprano
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1933-08-21
- Commons category
- Janet Baker
- name in native language
- Janet Abbott Bakeresto
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- end of work period
- 1989-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0