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Baker, Dame Janet Abbott

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Baker, Dame Janet Abbott (1933– ) English mezzo-soprano. She was renowned as a singer of Lieder, oratorio and opera. Well known at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Sadler's Wells and Glyndebourne, she is particularly admired for her interpretations of Mahler's song cycles.

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