Janice BAIRD Soprano Janice Baird was born in New York, her parents were both professional singers. She studied transverse flute and singing as well as acting at the HB Actors Studio in Manhattan and started her career as mezzo soprano in the US and in Europe. Then she began to sing as soprano, participated in master classes with Birgit Nilsson and studied with Astrid Varnay. First contracts brought her to Kiel , Trier , Dortmund , Hannover , Augsburg singing roles like Salome, Brünnhilde, Abigail, Senta, Leonore in “Fidelio” then she made her debuts in major houses like Staatsoper Berlin , Staatsoper Vienna , Genoa , Tokyo as Salome, Deutsche Oper Berlin , Leipzig with “Fidelio”, Buenos Aires as Isolde, Zurich , Rome , Sevilla as Elektra, Strasbourg with Turandot and Geneva and Düsseldorf as Brünnhilde. Ms. Baird established herself as one of the most requested dramatic sopranos, she sang Brünnhilde in “Walküre”, “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung” in Berlin , Catania , Geneva, Düsseldorf , Göteborg , Copenhagen , Marseille , Seattle , Stockholm , Sevilla, Stuttgart , Venice , Toulouse and Zurich , and Elektra in Berlin , Bilbao , Catania , Dresden , Essen , Mannheim , Nantes , Palermo , Rome , Festival Salzburg , Sevilla, Stockholm , Strasbourg , Toulouse and Zurich . Ms. Baird sang Salome in different productions at Staatsoper Berlin , Florence , Genoa, Leipzig , Palermo Tokyo and Staatsoper Vienna and Isolde in Buenos Aires , Düsseldorf , Hamburg , Met , Rome , Toulouse and Zurich . Other roles of her repertoire include Ortrud, which she interpreted in Bilbao and Dresden , Färberin in “Frau ohne Schatten” in Toulouse and Zurich , Turandot in Athens , Rome , Berlin , Sevilla and Strasbourg , she was heard as Minnie in Rome and Sevilla, as Marie in “Wozzeck” in Rome and as Lady Macbeth in Berlin and Mexico . She was heard as Elektra in Seattle , in “Walküre” in Zurich , as Elektra in Berlin , and in “Walküre”, “Siegfried” and ”Götterdämmerung” in Seattle . More recently she sang Färberin in “Frau ohne Schatten” and Isolde in Zurich , Elektra in Catania , Turandot in Sevilla , Elektra in Stockholm “Siegfried” and Turandot in Berlin , Elektra in Leipzig , Isolde in Düsseldorf , Elektra at Festspielhaus Salzburg , Salome in Florence and Elektra in Vienna . Last contracts until 2021 include Sao Paulo for “Walküre”, Toulon as Ortrud, Deutsche Oper Berlin for “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung” Brünnhilde, Montpellier as Elektra, Mexico as Färberin in “Frau ohne Schatten”, Nuremberg as Isolde and Montevideo as Turandot, Senta in Prague , Elektra in Augsburg , "Walküre" in Pamplona and San Sebastian. Furthermore, she sang Senta in Brno , Venus in Prague , Turandot in Shanghai , Fidelio in Cottbus and Elektra in Kattowitz and was heard in Buenos Aires in "Elektra" and in Rouen in "Lohengrin". She sang her first Herodias in the "Salome" production in Catania . .