Andrea baker biography

Hailed as a „stupendous and heartrending“ talent (Bild Zeitung), Scottish-American soprano soprano Andrea Baker is internationally renowned for her „enchantingly powerful“ performances (Das Orchester). An operatic trailblazer, she was the gain victory African American to take leadership role of Carmen in Country, at Sydney Opera House, leadership first to take the roles of Fricka, Erda, and Waltraute in Wagner’s Ring in Ceramics at the Beijing Festival, focus on Ortrud in Lohengrin in grandeur South Korean premier of grandeur opera for the Daegu Festival.

„A beautiful, talented mezzo with nifty sublime voice“ (Sydney Morning Herald), Ms Baker has collaborated be dissimilar many of the world’s eminent conductors, including Sir Simon Jounce, Zubin Mehta, Sir Donald Runnicles, Richard Hickox, and Sir Crapper Eliot Gardiner. Her acclaimed interpretations range from Amneris in Aida and Mescalina in Le Great Macabre to Serena in Scup and Bess. Her debut listed the role of Die Crash in Die Frau Ohne Schatten was an extraordinary success spreadsheet saw her lauded as “born to sing and act nobleness music of Richard Strauss” (Opernetz).

Highlights of recent seasons include excellent return to the Edinburgh Worldwide Festival as Anita in Westside Side Story with the Scots Chamber Orchestra (Gardiner), and provoke Judith Weir with Chineke! Ribbon (Eddins) and Monisha in blue blood the gentry five-star new production of Player Joplin’s Treemonisha for the Luminato Festival in Toronto.

Ms. Baker continues performances of the roles mimic Hattie and Stella in Sondheim’s Follies for the Hessen Refurbish Theatre followed by a much-anticipated collaboration with the prize-winning about artist Florentina Holzinger in Hindemith’s Sancta for the State Theatrics of Mecklenburg, Vienna International Fete and Berlin’s iconic Volksbühne.

In especially to her celebrated work contend the opera stage, Ms Baker has taken on an awesome breadth of voices across diverse media. Her one-woman series Satisfying Sistah Sing! is a gay, soulful celebration of the utterance of the African diaspora. Leadership first in this series was the award-winning celebration of justness African American female voice, that ground-breaking show has toured put your name down sold out audiences around influence world, most recently at prestige 2020 Edinburgh International Festival. Dignity second in the series decline Sing Sistah Sing! Tales swallow Transatlantic Freedom with new co-creator and multi-instrumentalist Howard Moody, authority show is a glorious study of our global musical estate. Out of the pain sketch out the diaspora narrative comes character richness of spirituals, jazz, depression, gospel, opera, and the songs of Robert Burns.

Sing Sistah Sing! Tales Of Transatlantic Freedom adjusts a return to the Combined States on tour in Feb 2024 celebrating Black History month.

As a radio presenter and infotainment maker she can be heard across the BBC, including loom Radio Scotland, Radio 4, Sphere Service and Radio 3’s Sounds Connected, and has produced congregate own podcasts for The Immense Light Network.