I have watched this three times and am utterly absorbed and entranced each time! I have seen (and in a non-covid world still see) many, many signers on the opera stage and concert platform. Of them all, Janet Baker is the one who I miss hearing live. A very special artist and this wonderful documentary captures that - thank you.
Just watched the programme, came to You Tube to find some Verdi with JB, & saw your Channel - so, thank you for an outstanding insight into this wonderful singer !
John, the BBC Four website only streams in UK. . . how may I view the documentary? Based on the description, I’d love to see the whole thing - Dame Janet is so special to me. . . Please advise ASAP. “In her first documentary for more than 35 years, the great British classical singer Dame Janet Baker talks more openly and emotionally than ever before about her career and her life today. With excerpts of her greatest stage roles (as Dido, Mary Stuart, Julius Caesar and Orpheus), as well as of her appearances in the concert hall and recording studio (works by Handel, Berlioz, Schubert, Elgar, Britten and Mahler), she looks back at the excitements and pitfalls of public performance. She tells the film-maker John Bridcut about the traumatic loss of her elder brother when she was only ten years old, and how that experience coloured her voice and her artistry. She explains why she felt the need to retire early some thirty years ago and discusses the challenges she and her husband have to face in old age. She also gives tantalizing clues to the question her many fans often ask: does she still sing today at the age of 85? Among the other contributors to the film are conductors Raymond Leppard, Jane Glover and André Previn (in one of his last interviews before his death in March), the singers Joyce DiDonato and Dame Felicity Lott, the opera producer John Copley, the pianist Imogen Cooper, and the actress Dame Patricia Routledge. This feature-length film is a Crux production for the BBC, following the award-winning ‘Colin Davis - in His Own Words’ in 2013. John Bridcut has also made film profiles of Herbert von Karajan, Mstislav Rostropovich, Rudolf Nureyev and Jonas Kaufmann, as well as ‘Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70’ for BBC One in November 2018.”
A year ago I watched this on television and then found it on RU-vid, but it now seems to have been removed. Now all we have is clickbait promising the full version but delivering only 1.43 trailer. Like on of the other subscribers, I have seen these documentary several times because it is so moving. I simply wanted to see it again and it is not on marquee.tv! So, please, if anyone does find a link - and not to a phishing or unsafe site - please let me know. Thanks.
The Janet Baker film IS available on marquee.tv. I've just checked! But it may depend on which country and continent you're based in. Sorry you've been having difficulty.
Hello. Thank you for this gorgeous documentary, which I saw when it came out last year. Do you think it would be possible to stream it or make it available at some point during these times of crisis? I'm certain it would bring comfort to many. Thank you.
Hello John: Do you recall what the playlist was from your film. It was the Mahlers I was intending to look up. Looking forward to this coming around again! I thought it was a fabulous piece of work. W
