Bass baritone

As a bass-baritone male is singing - vocal range between bass and baritone called. The bass baritone does not have quite the depth of a black bass, but neither does it reach the height of a lyrical baritone. The degree extends roughly from G to f sharp1 ' .

Many of Richard Wagner's baritone parts are suitable for bass baritones, and many bass parts in oratorios or cantatas are well suited for bass baritones due to their relatively high register on average, as are the baritone parts in the operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the higher bass parts by Gioacchino Rossini , which can also be described as parts for basso cantante .

Famous representatives of this subject were and are among others Friedrich Schorr , Hermann Horner , 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 also Johnny Cash .

Well-known games are:

• Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni by Mozart
• Papageno in Mozart's Magic Flute (written for baritone, but also sung by bass baritones)
• Don Pizarro in Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven
• The Dutchman in The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner
• Hans Sachs in The Mastersingers of Nuremberg by Wagner
• Wotan / Wanderer in The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner
• Orestes in Elektra by Richard Strauss
• Hans Heiling in Hans Heiling by Heinrich Marschner

literature

• Baritone in: Johann Ernst Häuser: Musical lexicon or explanation and Germanization of the expressions, terms and foreign words that occur in music, with names of the pronunciation, in alphabetical order: an indispensable manual and auxiliary book for music teachers, organists, cantors, as well as for prospective students Musicians ... , Volume 1, Meissen, 1833, Goedsche, p. 48 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Bass-baritone explanation in Duden
• Bass baritone at opernlexikon.de