Bass-baritone

As a bass-baritone male vocal voice between bass and baritone is called. Bass-baritone has not quite the depths of a black bass, but does not reach the height of a lyric baritone. The range extends approximately from G to f k1 '.

Many baritone roles of Richard Wagner suitable for Bass Baritone, so many games for bass well suited due to their average relatively high position for Bass Baritone, as well as the baritone roles in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the higher bass roles by Gioacchino Rossini in oratorios and cantatas, which can be described as games for basso cantante.

Famous representatives of this genre were, and are, among others, Friedrich Schorr, Hans Hotter, George London, Erich Kunz, Gotthold Schwarz, Walter Berry, Isaac Hayes, Thomas Quasthoff, Paul Schöffler, Albert Dohmen, Bryn Terfel, Ian Curtis, José van Dam, but Johnny Cash.

Major sections are:

  • Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni by Mozart
  • Papageno (though written for baritone, but sung by bass baritones ) in The Magic Flute by Mozart
  • Don Pizarro in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
  • The Dutchman in Der fliegende Holländer by Richard Wagner
  • Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Wagner
  • Wotan / Wanderer in The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner
  • Voice
Singing Range (music) Bass (voice type) George London (bass-baritone) Walter Berry (bass-baritone) Der Ring des Nibelungen
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