Person Open DS/UK/9573 Baker; Dame; Janet Abbott (21 August 1933); CH DBE FRSA; English mezzo-soprano singer Baker Janet Abbott Dame 21 August 1933 English mezzo-soprano singer Female (cisgender) Hatfield, South Yorkshire, England (born)

English Music | Vocals | Mezzo soprano White No known disability No known religious affiliation Spouse of James Keith Shelley Heterosexual Dame Janet Abbott Baker CH, DBE, FRSA is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. Baker 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." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Baker (2022) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHSkeyte 11/28/2013 RAHAKirkbride 12/7/2022 f7ef967b-0246-4630-898d-6c335a8e5903