Biography
Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.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".
Filmography
all 15
Movies 15
self 10
Daughter of the Wolf (2019)
Janet Baker: In Her Own Words (2019)
Britten's Endgame (2015)
Britten: Nocturne (2013)
10 Best Elgar (2007)
Kathleen Ferrier: An Ordinary Diva (2003)
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988)
The Little Drummer Boy: An Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein (1985)
Orfeo ed Euridice (1982)
Donizetti : Mary Stuart (1982)
Dame Janet Baker Sings (1981)
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… (1979)
Mahler - Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (1973)
Owen Wingrave (1971)
The Trout (1970)
Ratings
Information
Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1933-08-21 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceHatfield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
Also Known As Dame Janet Baker
AwardsRoyal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal, Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Léonie Sonning Music Prize
This article uses material from Wikipedia.
- Janet Baker
- Filmography
- Information
- Related Persons