Bass

Cesare Siepi was a classic Italian basso cantante, or “singing bass,” with a warm, slightly dark voice that was ideally suited to Mozart. Yet his voice was so robust that...

One of the really nice things about doing this blog is that I get to discover singers whom I did not know anything about. Ludwig Weber is one of those...

This was a beautiful voice. In his time, Frick was he leading bass in the Austro-German repertory.  Frick had a compact, powerful bass aand unchallenged cutting power (in the house)....

Marcel Journet was categorized as a bass, but, by the timbre of his voice and by the repertory that he sang, he was more of a bass-baritone. This was a...

I am not done with Die Walkürie yet. I honestly believe, even given all my hesitation about Wagner, that the aria that Wotan sings in Act III is one of...

In this prologue to Boris Godunov, I have selected Lev Sibiryakov to sing the monk Pimen. It is an extraordinary performance, especially when you take into account the it was...

Believe it or not, this is a living artist.  Evgeny Yevgenievich Nesterenko (Евгений Евгеньевич Нестеренко, born January 8, 1938) is a Russian operatic bass.  I have put two versions into this post:  one by...

I know that I still owe you a description of male voice categories (Fach for men), and I will get to that.  In the meantime, I am presenting the lowest...