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A Heldenbaritone, also known as dramatic bass-baritone or hoher bass (high bass), is an opera singer, a German dramatic baritone. "Heldenbaritone" (Ger. "Heroic baritone) is a fach (operatic voice type) that is usually associated with the operas of Richard Wagner. It is usually sung by bass-baritones such as Hans Hotter, Theo Adam or Bryn ...
Clemens Unterreiner (born 18 March 1972) is an Austrian operatic baritone. He is professionally active internationally as well as a soloist and ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera . [ 1 ] His operatic repertoire ranges from lyric to German-Italian-French cavalier and heroic baritone roles to masses, oratorios and classical Lieder, and ...
Heldentenor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and his wife, Malvina, in the title roles of Tristan und Isolde, 1865.. A heldentenor (German: [ˈhɛl.dn̩.teˌnoːɐ̯] ⓘ; [1] English: heroic tenor), [2] [3] [4] earlier called tenorbariton, [1] is an operatic tenor voice, most often associated with Wagnerian repertoire.
English equivalent: dramatic baritone; Range: From about the G below low C (G 2) to the F ♯ above middle C (F ♯ 4) Description: Means 'heroic baritone'. In the German opera houses a true Heldenbariton is a prized possession: a singer with exciting power and an authoritative mature sound and production. Roles:
Up to this time Janssen had been known for his brilliant high range more than for his abilities as a heroic baritone, and had focused his attention on the more lyrical Wagnerian roles such as Wolfram. In Buenos Aires in 1938, as an experiment he sang his first a heavier and more demanding bass-baritone role, that of the Wanderer in Siegfried ...
Rudolf Bockelmann (born 2 April 1892 in Bodenteich, died 9 October 1958 in Dresden) was a German dramatic baritone and Kammersänger. He built an international career as an outstanding Wagnerian singer but damaged his reputation during the 1930s by joining the Nazi Party .
Rothmüller was an artist of exceptional musical culture. In 1932 he made his debut in Hamburg, with the role of Ottokar in "Der Freischütz", and was immediately ranked among the leading European interpreters of heroic baritone roles. Because of antisemitism in Nazi Germany, Rothmüller returned home to Zagreb in 1933.
Lacking the sheer vocal amplitude of his heroic baritone contemporaries Hans Hotter and Rudolf Bockelmann, Hüsch concentrated instead on investing his singing with an unfailingly smooth line, a rounded tone and beautifully lucid diction in the manner of a celebrated German lyric-baritone rival, Heinrich Schlusnus, who was his senior by 13 ...