Basso cantante

Basso cantante ( German "Singender Bass" also high bass ) is a vocal range .

Typical of Basso cantante is in addition to the characteristic Basstimbre a radiant height (up to f k1 - g1 ) and slightly duller (compared to other basses) lower position. High bass is often confused with bass-baritone , since many operatic roles are occupied by both voices. Basso cantante also includes playing bass.

Opera roles (selection)

• Figaro ( Le nozze di Figaro )
• Don Giovanni ( Don Giovanni )
• Boris Godunow ( Boris Godunow )
• Colline ( La Boheme )
• Méphistophélès ( Faust )
• Roles in Richard Wagner musical dramas: Wotan, Alberich, Hans Sachs, Holländer, Amfortas, Klingsor
• Prince Gremin ( Eugene Onegin )
• Taras Bulba (opera of the same name by Mykola Lyssenko )

Well-known representatives

• Pol Plançon
• Fyodor Ivanovich Chalyapin
• Ezio Pinza
• Fyodor Ignatievich Stravinsky
• Cesare Siepi
• Boris Christow
• Nikolai Gyaurov
• Borys Hmyrja
• Anton Diakov
• Adam Didur
• Fritz Ollendorff
• Kim Borg
• Nikola Gyuselev
• Samuel Ramey
• Paata Burtschuladze

literature

• Manual of the opera (Kloiber, R./Konold, W./Maschka, R .; Bärenreiter 2016)
• Opera encyclopedia (Munich: Heyne, 1995)