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25th July 2013

Video Interview, Dame Janet Baker at 80

by Katherine Cooper

Dame Janet BakerIn the run-up to her eightieth birthday, Dame Janet Baker reflects on her own vocal training and career, life after retiring from public performance, and how the demands of the profession have altered in the thirty-odd years since she hung up her lyre as Orfeo…

Filmed at the Bechstein Room at Wigmore Hall in July 2013. With thanks to Warner Classics and Erato.

Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial

Katherine Cooper read English at University College, Oxford, and joined Presto in 2009. She began her musical life as a violinist, but now spends much of her time singing Rossini and Elgar (sometimes even for money). She is also an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, specialising in music and literature.

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