Janet Baker and Joyce DiDonato discuss what makes a great singer, and offer their advice on how to approach an opera performance. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk
Janet Baker 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.