Marco Bakker
Marco Bakker
Marco Bakker is widely known for his many radio and television performances in the Netherlands and abroad as well as for his New Year's concerts. His repertoire includes 60 operatic roles which he performs in opera houses in the Netherlands and beyond. He also sing operettas, oratorios and musicals and ...
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Biography Marco Bakker
Marco Bakker is widely known for his many radio and television performances in the Netherlands and abroad as well as for his New Year's concerts. His repertoire includes 60 operatic roles which he performs in opera houses in the Netherlands and beyond. He also sing operettas, oratorios and musicals and he is in high demand as a concert singer. Each year, Bakker performs the part of Christ in Bach's St Matthew Passion. Typical of his career is its mixture of light and classical music: “Opera, operetta and musical are not so far from each other. The most important difference lies in the manner of singing. In the first two genres, you sing with a classically trained voice, in the last you use a technique where your voice is close to your speaking voice”. (NRC Handelsblad, October 2, 2006)
1938
Jacob Marinus (Marco) Bakker is born on February 8 in Beverwijk. He has singing lessons at the Amsterdam Conservatory with Coby Riemersma, Ruth Horna, Eva Libenberg, and Philip Terke. In Munich he studies with Hans Hotter and in London with Otakar Kraus.
1965
Bakker makes his debut in the world premiere of Ton de Leeuw's opera 'De Droom' [The Dream] at the Holland Festival.
1966
He enters the International Vocal Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch and ends in second place.
1967
He sings the title role in Claudio Monteverdi's 'L'Orfeo' (1607) at the Holland Festival.
1968
Bakker sings important roles in Netherlands Opera productions of 'L'Orfeo', Handel's 'Giulio Cesare' (1724), and Mozart's 'Le nozze di Figaro' (1786) and 'The Magic Flute' (1791). Later he concentrates primarily on operetta.
1972
Bakker returns to the Holland Festival, this time in the role of Osmano in 'L'Ormindo' (1644) by Francesco Cavalli.
1973
Bakker sings with the Scottish Opera in Glasgow as Count Danilo Danilowitsch in Franz Lehar's 'The Merry Widow' (1905). He makes his first large tour of the United States. He gives 18 concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic in performances of Bach's 'Mass in B minor' (1749) and Haydn's 'The Creation' (1798).
1974 - 1975
At the famous Glyndebourne Festival in southern England he sings the leading role in Richard Strauss' opera 'Intermezzo' (1924). Shortly after, he sings the title role in Tchaikovsky's 'Eugene Onegin' (1878) with the Glyndebourne Touring Opera.
1992
Bakker becomes ambassador of the World Wildlife Fund.
1995
He sings the role of Tonio in Ruggiero Leoncavallo's 'I Pagliacci' in a production of the fledgling Italian Opera in Amsterdam. He is also a member of the advisory board and the artistic adviser of the opera association: “I wanted to take part most of all because I find that Dutch singers have too few opportunities in the Netherlands”. (Algemeen Dagblad, October 27, 1995).
1996
For a lavish television gala, presenter Ivo Niehe brings together The 3 Baritones (Bakker, Daniël Smid, and Henk Poort), modelled after The Three Tenors (Lucianio Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras). Their first performance leads to enormous success.
1998
Bakker is in the news after driving into a woman in the parking deck of the Amsterdam ArenA. The woman dies a short time later. Bakker, who was intoxicated at the time of the accident, is sentenced to 240 hours community service and his driver's license is suspended for a year. The incident greatly damages his public image and career.
2001
Bakker makes a concert tour of Canada.
2002
He has the role of George, one of the leading roles in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Aspects of Love'.
2004
Bakker makes various concert tours, including nine concerts in Canada and a series of concerts with the soprano Miranda van Kralingen and The Belle Epoque Orchestra of Belgium conducted by Wim Brabants.
2006
He plays Old Deuteronomy in a Joop van den Ende production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats'.
2008
After 12 years, The 3 Baritones (Bakker, Smid, and Poort) return for a performance at the Carré theatre in Amsterdam and then to tour Dutch theatres with L'Orchestra Particolare conducted by Maurice Luttikhuis.
Discography Marco Bakker
In the discography you will find all recordings that have been released listed chronologically. We restrict ourselves to the title, the type of audio, year of publication or recording, label, list of guest musicians, plus any comments on the issue.
Kerstmis Met Marco Bakker Mieke Telkamp En Het Kinderkoor De Denneboompjes
| Act | Marco Bakker |
| Type and year | LP, 1973 |
| Label | Imperial, 5N022 26046 |
| producer | Klaas Leyen |
| producer | Klaas Posthuma |
| producer | Bart de Groot |
| componist | Wim Jongbloed |
Toni Willé - We'll Put The World Together Again
| Act | Marco Bakker |
| Type and year | 7", 1982 |
| Label | EMI, 5C 006-26784 |
| gastmuzikant | Marco Bakker |
Annie M.G. Schmidt - Een Nieuwe Jas
| Act | Marco Bakker |
| Type and year | CD, 1991 |
| Label | Columbia, 4690832 |
| gastmuzikant | Jan Rot |
| gastmuzikant | Rick de Leeuw |
| gastmuzikant | Karin Bloemen |
| componist | Harry Bannink |
| gastmuzikant | Ramses Shaffy |
| gastmuzikant | Miranda van Kralingen |
| gastmuzikant | Marjol Flore |
| gastmuzikant | Marco Bakker |
| gastmuzikant | Jenny Arean |
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