Baritone

As a baritone ( from Greek barys "heavy", " deep " and tonos "tone", Mz the baritones, Switzerland and the Baritöne ) refers to the average male singing voice between tenor and bass.

The range of the chest voice of a baritone ranges approximately from G to g '( ie two octaves). The baritone reached in head voice the sound Bb '. A singer of these vocal range is simply called " baritone " or more rarely, baritone. Even with numerous musical instruments, there are variants in baritone, such as the baritone saxophone.

In the opera

In the opera, one can differentiate the following voting compartments:

• Lyric Baritone (also play baritone): great height, light and mobile voice (for example, the title role in " The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini or Papageno in "The Magic Flute " by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Heldenbariton: heavy, powerful voice with good depth ( several large parts, such as Wotan in " Das Rheingold ", " Valkyrie " and " Siegfried" ( there as the Wanderer) by Richard Wagner, Scarpia in " Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini and the title role in " Boris Godunov " by Modest Mussorgsky )
• Cavalier Baritone: good legato, viable middle layer ( the most important in today's operatic repertoire: the title role in " Don Giovanni " by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as well as Escamillo in " Carmen " by Georges Bizet, the title role in "Eugene Onegin " by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Zar " Zar und Zimmermann " by Albert Lortzingstraße ) as well as Giorgio Germont in La Traviata and Count Ankarström in masked ball, respectively Giuseppe Verdi.
• Occasionally, the subject of the character baritone is called (mostly supporting roles ), but which largely coincides with the art of the hero baritone.

A number of major baritone singer is listed on the list of famous singers of classical music.

In the musical

The baritone is also represented in the musical. Mainly as a high baritone (such as Thomas Borchert or Bruno Grassini ). He sings, among other such roles as the Count of Krolock in Dance of the Vampires, Javert in Les Misérables to, the Pilatus or the Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar, the Franz Joseph, Elisabeth or Lucheni in the title role of Dracula. For the deeper Baritone there are roles such as Judge Turpin and the title role in Sweeney Todd. Moreover, it remains the Baritenor a musical version of the baritone. The singer joins this tenorische with baritonischen elements both in timbre and in vocal range and can be as much like the high baritone take deep tenor parts. It is well to remember that not only the vocal range for the cast / casting a role is crucial, but also the type of the cast.

In the pop music

Typical baritones in popular music were and are, for example, Frank Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood, Neil Diamond, Tom Smith ( Editors ), Dave Gahan, Heino, Stan Rogers, Lou Rawls, Michael Buble, Matt Berninger (The National), Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jim Morrison, Eddie Vedder, Josh Groban and Alex Kapranos.