Janice Baird

Janice Baird ( born January 10, 1963 in New York City, New York) is an American opera singer, the soprano vocal range.

Career

Born and raised Janice Baird in a musically influenced parents' home in New York City. She studied in her hometown of music ( flute and vocals) and foreign languages ​​at the New York University and completed a study acting at the renowned HB Studio. After its beginnings as a dramatic mezzo- soprano larger homes were aware of them, to which she moved to the soprano with resounding success. With further intensive studies with Astrid Varnay and Master Classes with Birgit Nilsson finally developed the highly dramatic repertoire with which they laid the foundation for her international career. In addition to her mother tongue speaks Baird German, Italian and Spanish. In 2007 she lived in Kiel and at the Spanish Atlantic coast.

A reputation in professional circles she gained for her interpretations of Wagner and Strauss roles.

Among other things, she sang the role of Elektra by Strauss at the Opera House Zurich, the Theatre du Capitole Toulouse, Essen, Rome, Dresden, Strasbourg, Bilbao and Seville. As Salome, she debuted at the Vienna State Opera, sang this role repeatedly at the Staatsoper Berlin, Leipzig, Paris, Tokyo, Genoa and Palermo. Your role debut as the Dyer's Wife in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten she gave in October 2006 in Toulouse. She sang Isolde in Buenos Aires and in the 2006/2007 season in new productions at the opera houses of Rome and Toulouse.

Janice Baird was the Brünnhilde in Geneva, Catania, Toulouse and Venice, Zurich, Marseilles, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Birmingham, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Seville and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She will be the Brünnhilde in Seattle in the summer of 2009.