Well this role is actually 4 roles. This role sits higher then the rest, and in past production, there would be a new singer when this role came up. Generaly nowadays, a bass-baritone will sing this role, and will transpose this aria. Still some productions will have diffrent singers singing the 4 villans, and generally there it will be a baritone singing this role.
@adamskyb Terfel sings one tone down; probably didn't have to but would have had to forego the top g sharp at the end. Plenty of baritones sing it; Bacquier even omits the g sharp. Van Dam, a bass-baritone, certainly does, as I recall. To my mind, it is a question of colour and timbre. The great German baritone, Joseph Schwarz, certainly handles the top with relative ease but also has plenty of weight in the bottom. Terfel sounds to me to be working hard at the bottom in this lower register.
@adamskyb The final g sharp is alternative and a bit of a show-off and usually goes with the alternative f sharp at the end of the first strophe. That classic French baritone sings the g sharp but, in my opinion, the original E or an F sharp would have been more tasteful. Personal taste. I have heard basses chantantes sing the g sharp live without excessive effort.
@BrianDonaldMcKay In fact, in the version by Bacquier on youtube, he sings the whole aria down half a tone and includes the high alternative, a g, at the end.
@BrianDonaldMcKay One last word if I may: Van Dam, in his 2000 Orange performance, sings the aria half a tone down and stays with the composer's final note, in this case an E flat.
@wattever333 He transposed this? If that's the case is this role really for bass-baritone or for baritone? Cause I'd love to do this role but I'm a baritone...
And I ask: are the „experts“ real experts and do they what they are speaking about (is a sharp a sharp g, on whose keyboard) Take the voice as it is, brilliant or mad, like millions rightly do.
I swear, modern stage directors are such flippin’ hacks. The concept itself is bad enough but when he pulls out the magnifying glass it’s so stupid it almost hurt.
man he sounds better here then he does in the recording I have of this! and he sounds great there! love this aria!
Different key.
Well this role is actually 4 roles. This role sits higher then the rest, and in past production, there would be a new singer when this role came up. Generaly nowadays, a bass-baritone will sing this role, and will transpose this aria.
Still some productions will have diffrent singers singing the 4 villans, and generally there it will be a baritone singing this role.
@adamskyb Terfel sings one tone down; probably didn't have to but would have had to forego the top g sharp at the end. Plenty of baritones sing it; Bacquier even omits the g sharp. Van Dam, a bass-baritone, certainly does, as I recall. To my mind, it is a question of colour and timbre. The great German baritone, Joseph Schwarz, certainly handles the top with relative ease but also has plenty of weight in the bottom. Terfel sounds to me to be working hard at the bottom in this lower register.
Immer wieder wunderbar !!
Where's the rest of this production?!
Bon artista.
Bravo
@adamskyb The final g sharp is alternative and a bit of a show-off and usually goes with the alternative f sharp at the end of the first strophe. That classic French baritone sings the g sharp but, in my opinion, the original E or an F sharp would have been more tasteful. Personal taste. I have heard basses chantantes sing the g sharp live without excessive effort.
@BrianDonaldMcKay In fact, in the version by Bacquier on youtube, he sings the whole aria down half a tone and includes the high alternative, a g, at the end.
@BrianDonaldMcKay One last word if I may: Van Dam, in his 2000 Orange performance, sings the aria half a tone down and stays with the composer's final note, in this case an E flat.
@wattever333 He transposed this? If that's the case is this role really for bass-baritone or for baritone? Cause I'd love to do this role but I'm a baritone...
I believe Leonard Warren sang it transposed up.
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Does anyone really care? Gosh, I am always amazed of those experts speaking up. Why not shut up and enjoy?
And I ask: are the „experts“ real experts and do they what they are speaking about (is a sharp a sharp g, on whose keyboard) Take the voice as it is, brilliant or mad, like millions rightly do.
I swear, modern stage directors are such flippin’ hacks. The concept itself is bad enough but when he pulls out the magnifying glass it’s so stupid it almost hurt.
Gute Stimme ! Aber eine schreckliche Inszenierung. LEIDER !!!!