She was the rock on which music flourished in Britain from the 1950s to 1980s.
Dame Janet Baker, still going strong, is 90 today.
Other singers related that when they arrived on the first morning of rehearsal, she would know all their parts by heart.
She set the standard.
Listen here to Dame Janet Baker in the Lebrecht Interview.
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