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Vocal ranges

Female ranges Soprano Mezzo-soprano Alto Male ranges Sopranist Countertenor Alto Tenor Baritenor Baritone Bass-baritone Bass

A bass-baritone is a singing voice that shares certain qualities of both the baritone and the bass. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing Wagnerian bass roles like Wotan (in the Ring Cycle) and Hans Sachs (in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). Wagner wrote those roles for what he called Hoher Bass ("high bass," this is explained in more detail at fach).

The bass-baritone voice is distinguished by two attributes. First, it must be capable of singing comfortably in a baritonal tessitura. It must also, however, have the resonant lower range typically associated with the bass. For example, the role of Wotan in Die Walküre covers the range from the F# above middle C to the F below the bass clef but only infrequently descends beyond the C below middle C.

Contents 1 Bass-baritone roles in operas 2 Bass-baritone roles in operettas and musicals 3 Famous bass-baritones 3.1 Classical music 4 See also

[edit] Bass-baritone roles in operas

• Arlington (Wakonda's Dream)
• Doctor Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
• Don Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
• Don Giovanni (Don Giovanni)
• Don Magnifico (La Cenerentola)
• Escamillo (Carmen)
• Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)
• Méphistophélès (La Damnation de Faust)
• Porgy (Porgy and Bess)
• Wotan (Der Ring des Nibelungen)
• The Dutchman (Der fliegende Holländer)
• Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser)
• Magic Flute (mozart)

[edit] Bass-baritone roles in operettas and musicals

Common vocal ranges represented on a musical keyboard

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• Dick Deadeye (HMS Pinafore)
• The Pirate King (The Pirates of Penzance)
• Scar (The Lion King)
• Sir Despard Murgatroyd (Ruddigore)
• Sergeant Meryll (The Yeomen of the Guard)
• The Bishop of Digne (Les Miserables)
• Bill Sykes (Oliver!)
• Benjamin Franklin (1776)
• Porgy (Porgy and Bess)
• Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)
• Jud Fry (Oklahoma!)

[edit] Famous bass-baritones

[edit] Classical music

• Theo Adam
• Walter Berry
• Justino Diaz
• Johannes von Duisburg
• Simon Estes
• Hans Hotter
• George London
• James Morris
• Maggie Nice (actually a man)
• Laurentiu Rotaru
• Thomas Quasthoff
• Samuel Ramey
• Friedrich Schorr
• Bryn Terfel
• Norman Treigle
• José Van Dam

[edit] See also

• soprano
• contralto
• tenorde:Bassbariton

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