The artists' artist: mezzo-sopranos

The opera world's leading mezzos choose their favourite living performers in their rangeChristine Rice on Janet BakerIt's one of my great regrets that I never saw Janet Baker perform live, but her recordings were absolutely formative for me when I was training to be a singer. Her extraordinary range of output and astonishing technique gave me enough ammunition to become my own artist. In the library at the Royal Northern College of Music The first time I put on her recording of The Rape of Lucr...

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