This aria brings out the best in baritones who really know how to sing. I’ve seen onstage Bernd Weikl, Peter Mattei, Lucas Meachem, and they were also meltingly beautiful. Wagner should not be screamed!
Indeed, he wrote it for a lyric baritone - but a lyric baritone in Wagnerian repertoire is very different from a lyric baritone in Early Music, Mozart, bel canto repertoire, etc. Gerharer sings this like Schubert lied, and that is stylistically and vocally inappropriate for the color, gravitas, and power required in Wagner’s music (even the “lyric” roles).
For example, Tom Krause was also a lyric baritone, but he sang this aria - vocally, and stylistically - in a way that is absolutely appropriate for Wagner’s music, whereas Gerharer does not. m.ruclips.net/video/uFgGsjj6uCI/видео.html&pp=ygUUVG9tIGtyYXVzZSBvIGR1IG1laW4%3D
Gerhaher is at his best in the Lied rep. But he lacks the vocal heft and technique for roles such as this one, especially in a house the size of the Metropolitan. This is no different from the case of Fischer-Dieskau, a superior singer to Gerhaher by the way, as if it needed saying, and who is still subject to much abuse for “trying” to sing opera. In this day and age of an art form in a state of abject despair, however, whatever Gerhaher ends up doing will pass the lowest-bar test, as with so many others night after night.
Have you ever heard him or Fischer-Dieskau sing live? I presume not. Otherwise, you would know that both voices can easily fill houses as big as the Met.
Gotta be one of the most beautiful baritone arias in all of opera.
This aria brings out the best in baritones who really know how to sing. I’ve seen onstage Bernd Weikl, Peter Mattei, Lucas Meachem, and they were also meltingly beautiful. Wagner should not be screamed!
why, on earth, Met invited a tenor to sing Wolfram - is there a shortage of baritones?
Gerhaher is a baritone - a light one for sure, but Wolfram is an appropriate part for a light baritone to sing
@Robbit76 I agree with you completely - this is ridiculous. He's singing it like it's a Schubert lied.
@@DonaldIMarrazzoWagner wrote it for an lyric baritone
Indeed, he wrote it for a lyric baritone - but a lyric baritone in Wagnerian repertoire is very different from a lyric baritone in Early Music, Mozart, bel canto repertoire, etc. Gerharer sings this like Schubert lied, and that is stylistically and vocally inappropriate for the color, gravitas, and power required in Wagner’s music (even the “lyric” roles).
For example, Tom Krause was also a lyric baritone, but he sang this aria - vocally, and stylistically - in a way that is absolutely appropriate for Wagner’s music, whereas Gerharer does not.
m.ruclips.net/video/uFgGsjj6uCI/видео.html&pp=ygUUVG9tIGtyYXVzZSBvIGR1IG1laW4%3D
Oh my God the harp is beautiful!
Gerhaher is at his best in the Lied rep. But he lacks the vocal heft and technique for roles such as this one, especially in a house the size of the Metropolitan. This is no different from the case of Fischer-Dieskau, a superior singer to Gerhaher by the way, as if it needed saying, and who is still subject to much abuse for “trying” to sing opera. In this day and age of an art form in a state of abject despair, however, whatever Gerhaher ends up doing will pass the lowest-bar test, as with so many others night after night.
What planet are you on? I'm sitting here in front of my computer screen in absolute tears. This is stunning!
@@metalchix Planet Earth. Me too, in tears here … at what passes for (good) singing.
@@doGreatartistsgrowontrees Ew.
Have you ever heard him or Fischer-Dieskau sing live? I presume not. Otherwise, you would know that both voices can easily fill houses as big as the Met.
I can confirm his choice to use the Lieder style in many moments WAS audible in the Met. Even if not the sound always desired, it was always heard
I didn’t know that RUclips allowed masturbation videos. How self-gratifying