Autographs of Janet Baker
Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
Baker is particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Berlioz's magnum opus, Les Troyens. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for her interpretations of the music of Gustav Mahler and Edward Elgar. David Gutman, writing in Gramophone, described her performance of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder as "intimate, almost self-communing".
Janet Abbott Baker was born in Hatfield, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where her father was an engineer as well as a chorister. Members of her family worked at Bentley Pit, in Doncaster. She attended York College for Girls and then Wintringham Girls' Grammar School in Grimsby. The death, when she was 10 years old, of her elder brother Peter, from a heart condition, was a formative moment that made her take responsibility for the rest of her life; she revealed this in a BBC Radio 3 Lebrecht Interview in September 2011.
More about Janet Baker Wikipedia
Affiliate disclosure: When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
Current items with a signature of Janet Baker
These are the most current items with a signature of Janet Baker that were listed on eBay and on other online stores - click here for more items.
Traded items with a signature of Janet Baker
The most expensive item with a signature of Janet Baker (Beethoven Mass in C Autographed LP CARLO MARIA GIULINI Janet Baker +2 LH522) was sold in June 2026 for £183.38 while the cheapest item (AUTOGRAPH OF OPERA SINGER Dame Janet Baker mezzo soprano) found a new owner for £0.99 in February 2024. The month with the most items sold (3) was October 2025 with an average selling price of £30.00 for an autographed item of Janet Baker. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2026 with £118.63 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £3.45 was July 2024. In average, an autographed item from Janet Baker is worth £25.00.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Janet Baker were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Beethoven Mass in C Autographed LP CARLO MARIA GIULINI Janet Baker +2 LH522 | £183.38 |  |
| Beethoven Mass in C Autographed LP CARLO MARIA GIULINI Janet Baker +2 LH522 | £183.38 | |
 | HOLST SAVITRI AND CHORAL HYMNS AUTOGRAPHED BY JANET BAKER ON COVER LH634 | £114.01 | |
| HOLST SAVITRI AND CHORAL HYMNS AUTOGRAPHED BY JANET BAKER ON COVER LH634 | £114.01 | |
 | Janet Baker *SIGNED* Mozart & Haydn Arias Leppard NEAR MINT Philips 6500 660 | £30.00 | |
| Janet Baker *SIGNED* Mozart & Haydn Arias Leppard NEAR MINT Philips 6500 660 | £30.00 | |
| Janet Baker *SIGNED* Vinyl LP Songs & Arias Purcell Bach Handel etc EMI SEOM 8 | £30.00 | |
| Janet Baker *SIGNED* Vinyl LP Songs & Arias Purcell Bach Handel etc EMI SEOM 8 | £30.00 | |
| Janet Baker *SIGNED* Vinyl LP Songs & Arias Purcell Bach Handel etc EMI SEOM 8 | £30.00 | |
| Opera, Sopranos and Mezzo-sopranos, Janet Baker, Amy Shuard etc 10 SIGNED pieces | £30.00 | |
| Opera, Sopranos and Mezzo-sopranos, Janet Baker, Amy Shuard etc 10 SIGNED pieces | £30.00 | |
 | RAVEL: SHEHERAZADE BERLIOZ : LES NUITS d’ete AUTOGRAPHED BY JANET BAKER LH268 | £118.63 | |
| RAVEL: SHEHERAZADE BERLIOZ : LES NUITS d’ete AUTOGRAPHED BY JANET BAKER LH268 | £118.63 | |
| Vintage Signed Janet Baker and Geoffrey Parsons Programme 1981 | £34.81 | |
| Vintage Signed Janet Baker and Geoffrey Parsons Programme 1981 | £34.81 | |
