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Janice  Baird sings Minnie in Fanciulla del West in Rome
Assolutamente innovativa nel repertorio pucciniano è Minnie, eroina dalla personalità poliedrica, coraggiosa e passionale, qui interpretata dal soprano Janice Baird, di notevoli capacità vocali dai toni ora morbidi, ora squillanti.
Notti da Leone - Fabiana Raponi - April 9, 2008

* Janice BAIRD makes her USA soprano debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera as Isolde under the baton of James Levine

March 14 & 25 2008
Ms. Baird, a native of the Upper West Side, has sung many major dramatic soprano roles in companies around the world. An attractive woman with a strong and bright voice, she was an honorable Isolde. She had secure top notes and a gleaming middle range... she sang with focus, energy and stamina, and won an enthusiastic ovation from the audience.
Anthony TommasiniI - New York Times - March 27, 2008

*Janice Baird has a voice of considerable power. In the lower register, you can hear remnants of a former mezzo-soprano, and her high notes are gleaming and dead-on. She cuts a glamorous figure, and together they made the most romantic-looking couple seen onstage here in "Tristan und Isolde" in many a year. The audience rewarded them with a standing ovation and seemed in no rush to head for the aisles despite the late hour of 12:30 a.m.

Mike Silverman - Associcated Press/New York Times - March 15, 2008
Tristan and Two Isoldes - a wild night at the Met
Baird is a slender, striking dramatic soprano with a considerable reputation in Europe; she will sing Brünnhilde at the Seattle Opera next year.And there is surely no crazier place to begin a performance than in the midst of Act II, during the most tumultuous love scene in opera.  Baird did exceptional work. From the start, she sang with an innate sense of the long line. Her voice had a fundamentally lovely sheen, dark yet glowing.
Alex Ross - The New Yorker - March 31, 2008
 
     
 

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