Your favourite Haendel Baritone/Bass aria?
Tarik Bilgin
I am new to this group so please bear with me if i break any of the
rules. :)
I am a young baritone looking for a Haendel aria to prepare as an
audition piece. However I have to admit I am not the biggest Haendel fan
so I don't know the repertoire very well. In fact the only thing I have
sung is the aria "Total Eclipse" from "Samson", and some recit. from
"Messiah".
But I suddenly had a brainwave -- there are probably plenty of Haendel
fans on this NG that might be able to help! So your favourite Baritone
arias from the big man please!
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Tarik
MD
interest. It's actually rather similar to "Ev'ry Valley" from the MESSIAH,
though in Italian. You probably want to seek out the key of # major. A more
lyric aria is "How green our fertile pasture looks" from SOLOMON, but with
lots of passage work in a slow tempo.
best,
MD
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Lcmont36
upbeat try, "Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries" from Alexander's Feast.
REG
don't think of it as a bass role at all but it is one of the more difficult
arias in terms of where is sits in the voice, and the fioritura is not so
easy for a young singer, I think.
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Jon Davis
>audition piece. However I have to admit I am not the biggest Haendel fan
>so I don't know the repertoire very well.
>So your favourite Baritone
>arias from the big man please!
>
If you've got great coloratura ability, then try "Sibilar gli Angui d'Aletto"
from RINALDO.
If you've got a great lower extension you might check out the Moth aria "Il
farfaletta" from the early ACI, GALATEA E POLIFEMO - probably the most
difficult aria Handel ever wrote for baritone (bass?).
Jon Davis
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Terry Simmons
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"O Ruddier than the Cherry" from Acis & Galatea.
A Tsar Is Born
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> I am a young baritone looking for a Haendel aria to prepare as an
> audition piece. However I have to admit I am not the biggest Haendel fan
> so I don't know the repertoire very well. In fact the only thing I have
> sung is the aria "Total Eclipse" from "Samson", and some recit. from
> "Messiah".
The problem is: the baritone voice did not exist yet in Handel's day; it's
an entirely 19th-century creation. Some baritones can manage music written
for bass and some can't. For an audition, I think you'd be very unwise to
try unless you have some money notes on the bottom. The arias suggested here
so far were written for bass or alto. Handel composed nothing whatsoever for
baritone. Neither did Mozart, with the sole exception of Papageno (composed
for a very light bass), but some deep baritones can manage Don Giovanni or
Figaro or Leporello.
Hans Lick
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"A Tsar Is Born" <ench...@herodotus.com>
>Handel composed nothing whatsoever for
> baritone. Neither did Mozart, with the sole exception of Papageno
(composed
> for a very light bass),
Okay, Guglielmo in Cosi as well. (also written for a light bass).
HL
benjo maso
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One of Handel's most beautiful bass aria's is "Tears, such as tender fathers
shed" from the third act of Deborah. A fine bravoure aria is "Sorge infausta
una procella" from the third act of Orlando. "Fra l'ombre e gli onori"
(Sosarme, first act) and "Turn not, o queen" (Esther, second Act) are also
worth investigating.
Benjo Maso
Tarik Bilgin
good points, Hans, I will keep this in mind when selecting.
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Tarik
Ivan Lalis
for bass. And that's not all, it's sung in German :-) For those who do
not know the recording - it's on Opera d'Oro, with Walter Berry singing
Cesare, Lucia Popp is Cleopatra, . The cast also includes Wunderlich and
Christa Ludwig. Doesn't sound very authentic, but it's surely a plenty
of very good and excellent singing. I was particularly impressed by
Berry how elegantly and with ease he can handle all that coloratura
stuff.
But back to the original question - you could take any aria for
castrato and traspose it. My favourites would be Cara sposa (maybe a bit
too long and slow :), Venti turbini, Ombra mai fu. Anything sung by
Rinaldo (from Rinaldo) is a hit.
Ivan
benjo maso
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He wrote Figaro for the same singer as Gugliemo.
Benjo Maso
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His voice had changed.
REG
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PK
Guglielmo was written for Francesco Benucci, first Figaro and first
Viennese Leporello. In all three operas, Benucci sings the lowest line,
below Bartolo, Commendatore, Don Alfonso, so he should be the lowest
bass in the ensemble. It's almost never done this way (which, for
instance, leads in Böhm's second studio recording to some - apparent,
but never confirmed - exchanging of singing lines between Taddei and
Berry), but that's the way it's written.
PK
PK
>
How do you know? Guglielmo is still singing the bottom line.
PK
Ivan Lalis
haven't heard it, but with my OdO experience I would say it will be much
more expensive and the sound will be either very simmilar or much much
better. OdO sound is so so for the recording from 60s.
Ivan