Janet Baker - Dido & Aeneas - When I am laid in earth

Dame Janet Baker sings one of the most beautiful arias of all opera, from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

Glyndebourne, 1966. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

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• mezzo-soprano
• aria
• opera
• Dame
• Janet
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• Purcell
• Dido
• Aeneas

[GwenGalpin]

This is the most emotionally charged piece of music I've heard in many years. Dame Janet has marvellously clear diction and expression. Purcell writes beautifully. An unforgetable combination.

[BrickLaneBetty]

How is the WORLD is she making 3:24 happen? Super human!

[unomeimeno]

@nat00ben06

Well I, for one, listen to a damn sight more Jeff and Tim Buckley than I do opera. The difference is my open mind. Sure, Jeff's voice sends shivers down my spine.What he lacks in technical perfection he makes up for in soul. But Dame Janet's performance had both. She gave the best performance of this piece I have heard yet on the net. Credit where credit is due .If her performance does not move you, you are not listening.

[TheHenrylaycock]

Who cannot be moved to tears by this wonderful performance?

[aussiechickdiana]

She is the most beautiful singer.  Astonishing!

[vegaselena]

This is simply the most moving performance of any music I've ever heard, Baker is so beautiful in every way!

[nat00ben06]

@2me4my5 Bullshit Jeff Buckley sang this and put soul into opera, I'd say Jeff Buckley has no rivals let's here her sing qwali! Perfection is a false concept, music is left to the listener to realize perfection. Period you operatic snobs!

[ronnie9253]

14 dislikes?? Early Music snobs, or scratters?

[ronnie9253]

@BrickLaneBetty

she's dying - AND at the top of her range? Unreal.

[littlerobbergirl]

sob!

still the best, singing the best.

and perfect control while wearing a breast plate - amazing.

i jumped through the hoops to set up an account just to say something about this piece.

[ToneDeafecation]

@BrickLaneBetty Superhuman,transcendental...a glimpse of Heaven through a pinhole of light is all that we on earth will unfortunately ever be capable of perceiving.. To die with this divine voice ringing in my ears..I would count as a priveledge an honour and a life well spent.

[pinchmeImnotdreaming]

@Entropy56 Oh well, you came out of that exchange better than I. I was rather personally insulting in a gratuitous fashion; whereas you were not.

But I still don't like your Rabelaisian robustness within this mood of sublime pathos that Janet Baker creates.

'Dildo' I ask you! Have you no shame? I shudder to think what you will do with 'Aeneas' - add a P, no doubt!