By David Patrick Stearns [Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 October 2005]

Though she moves in the seemingly civilized, congenial world of baroque music, soprano Julianne Baird has faced vehement booing in Belgium, helped change the history of Bach performance in Boston, and landed behind bars in Maryland. At age 50, this blond, sunny warrior from the front lines of the Handel opera revival discusses these things laughingly.