Andrea Baker
Mezzo Soprano
“Baker’s Monisha, Lowe’s Pastor, and Faatoalia’s Remus practically raise the roof of the Bluma Appel.”
Glenn Sumi, Intermission Magazine
Biography
Hailed as a “stupendous and heartrending” talent (Bild Zeitung), American-Scottish mezzo soprano Andrea Baker is internationally renowned for her “enchantingly powerful” performances (Das Orchester). An operatic trailblazer, she was the first African American to take the role of Carmen in Australia, at Sydney Opera House, the first to take the roles of Fricka, Erda, and Waltraute in Wagner’s Ring in China at the Beijing Festival, and Ortrud in Lohengrin in the South Korean premier of the opera for the Daegu Festival.
She continues in the iconic roles of Hattie and Stella in Sondheim’s Follies for the Wiesbaden State Theater and will make her debut in the role of Klamentia in Hindemith’s Sancta Susanna, directed by the award-winning performance artist Florentina Holzinger for the state theatre of Mecklenburg, followed by Wiener Festwochen, Opera Stuttgart and the Volksoper Berlin. Highlights of recent seasons include a return to the Edinburgh International Festival as Anita in West Side Story with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra (Gardiner), and woman.life.song by Judith Weir with Chineke! Orchestra (Eddins). Her recent performances as Monisha in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha for the Luminato Festival in Toronto won best opera for 2023 (Broadway World) and was named one of the New York Time’s top 10 classical music performances of 2023.
Upcoming Performances
Stuttgart, 70173 Germany
Opera performance by Florentina Holzinger with Paul Hindemith's opera Sancta Susanna, sacred works and new compositions in German, Latin and English.
Stuttgart, 70173 Germany
Opera performance by Florentina Holzinger with Paul Hindemith's opera Sancta Susanna, sacred works and new compositions in German, Latin and English.
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