Dame Janet Abbott Baker CH DBE FRSA (born 21 August 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 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."
Janet Abbott Baker was born in Hatfield, South Yorkshire, where her father was an engineer as well as a chorister. Members of her family worked at Bentley Pit, in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. She attended York College for Girls and then Wintringham Girls' Grammar School in Grimsby. The death of her elder brother, Peter, when she was 10 years old, from a heart condition, was a formative moment that made her take responsibility for the rest of her life, she revealed in a BBC Radio 3 Lebrecht Interview in September 2011.
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Plot: A dark comedy about a family who is coping with the repercussions of their teenage son's murder. Though the crime took place over a year ago, the accused killer has recently been exonerated and the case re-opened. It soon becomes apparent that all the affected parties have spent the past year in various forms of denial that range from desperately comical to simply desperate.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Richard Poche (editor), Richard Poche (producer), Richard Poche (writer), Richard Poche (director), Stephanie Danielson (actress), Cliff Poche (actor), Lora Mchugh (actress), Christina Johnson (actress),
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Plot: Chinatown serves as the location where a Communist agent has been killed after he has been caught stealing money. The money was collected from Chinese people living in America. The police chase many leads and suspects until the killer is caught through the efforts of an ex-policeman turned bus driver.
Keywords: 1930s, b-movie, bound-and-gagged, bus-driver, california, chinatown-san-francisco, chinese, chinese-american, cigarette-smoking, communism