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Handel: Julius Caesar review by A customer from London, England

Old fashioned now 22 January 2007
... Despite some fine singing, particularly from Janet Baker and a fine cast under that superb Handelian Charles Mackerras this disappoints. The produc... Read customer review

Orfeo Ed Euridice - Glyndebourne Festival Opera review by from Norwich

Orfeo Ed Euridice shows its age. 11 August 2005
...This Orfeo Ed Euridice is a stage production. It begins with Janet Baker carefully explaining the story. The start of the opera is very long winded with Janet Baker taking... Read customer review

Mary Stuart review by Seedyvee from Grantham

Keep Politics out of Opera! 29 November 2009
...lizabeth never met her cousin, of course, and politics are virtually absent. Janet Baker is a hero in successfully playing such a demanding soprano role. The female dic... Read customer review

Handel: Julius Caesar on DVD (1984)
Starring: Janet Baker, Valerie Masterson, Sara Walker
Director: John Copley
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Sir Charles Mackerras stays true to his own vision in his capacity as conductor of this ENO production of Handel's Julius Caesar, as the working edition of the opera is based upon his own. Dame Janet Baker stars as Julius Caesar (a role assumed in the Baroque era by a succession of castrati).

68% from 102 members

Orfeo Ed Euridice - Glyndebourne Festiva... on DVD (1982)
Starring: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard, Elizabeth Gale
Director: Rodney Greenberg
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Peter Hall's 1982 production of Gluck's ORFEO & EURIDICE for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Dame Janet Baker sings Orfeo with Elisabeth Speiser as Euridice under Raymond Leppard.

65% from 53 members

Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria - Monteverdi on DVD (1973)
Starring: Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Director: Raymond Leppard
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Monteverdi's tale of love and steadfastness. Upon returning home from the Trojan War, Ulysses finds his wife ever faithful, but the palace full of suitors. She will accept only the man who can string the great bow of Ulysses. Taken from the closing books of Homer's epic tale. Bernard Haitink ..read more »

48% from 18 members

Janet Baker - Full Circle on DVD
Starring: Janet Baker
Director: Bob Bentley
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Included are several performance extracts of Janet Baker from her final performances at the Royal Opera House Covent Gardens, the English National Opera, and Glyndebourne.

66% from 15 members

Mary Stuart on DVD
Starring: English Nat'l Opera Orch And Chorus, Janet Baker, Rosalind Plowright
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Features footage of the English National Opera's production of Donizetti's 'Mary Stuart', staged in 1982. Conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.

66% from 49 members

Rodney Greenberg - 1 times - show films
Bob Bentley - 1 times - show films
John Copley - 1 times - show films
Raymond Leppard - 1 times - show films