Dame Isobel Baillie, DBE was a Scottish soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder. She worked as an assistant in a music shop, then as a clerk in Manchester Town Hall, and made her debut with the Hallé Orchestra in 1921. After studies in Milan, she won immediate success in her opening season in London in 1923. Regarded as one of the 20th-century's greatest oratorio singers, her favourite work was Handel's Messiah; she gave over 1000 performances of it.

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  • Dame Isobel Baillie, DBE was a Scottish soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder. She worked as an assistant in a music shop, then as a clerk in Manchester Town Hall, and made her debut with the Hallé Orchestra in 1921. After studies in Milan, she won immediate success in her opening season in London in 1923. Regarded as one of the 20th-century's greatest oratorio singers, her favourite work was Handel's Messiah; she gave over 1000 performances of it. Widely praised for the purity and clarity of her tone, she was in demand for choral works; apart from the Messiah, she was noted in Joseph Haydn's The Creation, Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, and Johannes Brahms's A German Requiem. In 1933 she became the first British performer to sing in the Hollywood Bowl in California in 1933. In 1937 Arturo Toscanini chose her to sing Brahms' Requiem. Her performances of Gluck's Orpheus (always in English, so not Orfeo ed Euridice) and Charles Gounod's Faust were very popular. However, her forte was British music, including Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music (of which she was one of the original singers) and Edward Elgar's The Kingdom. She taught at the Royal College of Music (1955-57, 1961-64), Cornell University (1960-61) and the Manchester School of Music (from 1970). She gave some lessons to diva Kathleen Ferrier, and often sang with her. In 1951 she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In 1978 she was advanced to DBE. She said that the best advice she had ever been given was "never sing louder than lovely", and she made that the title of her autobiography.
  • Isobel Baillie war eine schottische Sopranistin. Isobel Baillie war das jüngste Kind eines schottischen Bäckermeisters und seiner Frau. Früh erkannte man ihr musikalisches Talent und ab dem Alter von 9 Jahren bekam sie Gesangsunterricht und gewann ein Stipendium für die High School in Manchester, wohin die Familie mittlerweile gezogen war. 1917, während des Ersten Weltkrieges, heiratete sie Henry Leonard Wrigley, gemeinsam hatten sie eine Tochter. 1921 hatte sie ihre ersten größeren Auftritte mit dem Manchester-Orchester und 1923 ihren ersten Auftritt in London, mit einem bemerkenswerten Erfolg. 1925–1926 ließ sie sich in Mailand von Guglielmo Somma weiter ausbilden. Danach hatte sie in England große Erfolge mit dem Gesang von Oratorien. 1955 bis 1957 und von 1961 bis 1964 unterrichtete sie am Royal College of Music in London und ab 1970 an der Manchester School of Music.
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  • Dame Isobel Baillie, DBE was a Scottish soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder. She worked as an assistant in a music shop, then as a clerk in Manchester Town Hall, and made her debut with the Hallé Orchestra in 1921. After studies in Milan, she won immediate success in her opening season in London in 1923. Regarded as one of the 20th-century's greatest oratorio singers, her favourite work was Handel's Messiah; she gave over 1000 performances of it.
  • Isobel Baillie war eine schottische Sopranistin. Isobel Baillie war das jüngste Kind eines schottischen Bäckermeisters und seiner Frau. Früh erkannte man ihr musikalisches Talent und ab dem Alter von 9 Jahren bekam sie Gesangsunterricht und gewann ein Stipendium für die High School in Manchester, wohin die Familie mittlerweile gezogen war. 1917, während des Ersten Weltkrieges, heiratete sie Henry Leonard Wrigley, gemeinsam hatten sie eine Tochter.
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