Isobel Baillie [SEP] voice type
Isobel Baillie
Dame Isobel Baillie, (9 March 189524 September 1983) was a Scottish soprano, popular in opera, oratorio and lieder. She was regarded as one of the 20th century's great oratorio singers.
Life.
Isobel Baillie was born in Hawick, Scottish Borders, in 1895. She married Henry Leonard Wrigley in 1917. They had one daughter, Nancy. Isobel worked in a music shop and as a clerk at Manchester Town Hall, and made her orchestral debut with the Hallé Orchestra in 1921 under
In December 1936 he sang with Olga Haley and Parry Jones in the RPS performance of Berlioz's "Roméo et Juliette" under Albert Wolff. His appearance as Hercules in Handel's music drama, opposite Isobel Baillie, at the 1936 Norwich Festival was much admired. In this period he made recordings for His Master's Voice, including the successful Bach record of "How Jovial is my Laughter" ("Secular Cantata" 5, No. 3, "Wie will'ich lustig lachen") and "Twas in the cool