German bass/bari aria

[Gary Haase]

I am a young bass-baritone (22 yrs old) in desperate need of a good
German audition aria. Range from low F- high E works well. I would
prefer to stay away from the heavier repertoire (Wagner, Freischutz,
etc). The Papageno arias are a possibility, but a little too overdone.
Something from the old German/Viennese operetta genre would be
perfectably acceptable I think. Does anyone have any ideas? Email me
personally at haas...@aol.com with your responses.

Thanks for your help in advance!

Gary

[Mike Richter]

I'd throw in the Porter's Song from Martha and - is there an aria or
only the duet in Bartered Bride?

Mike

JDavis6627 wrote:
>
> >I am a young bass-baritone (22 yrs old) in desperate need of a good
> >German audition aria. Range from low F- high E works well.
>

> Check out Lortzing's ZAR UND ZIMMERMANN or Nicolai's MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR.
> Each has a couple bass arias that might very well fill the bill.
>
> Jon Davis
> "We are all fumbling along . . alone."
> Ned Rorem
>
>

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[JDavis6627]

[Jeffrey Snider]

Mike Richter wrote:

> I'd throw in the Porter's Song from Martha and - is there an aria or
> only the duet in Bartered Bride?

Kecal has an aria, but the original language is Czech, of course. I would
recommend (in addition to the excellent suggestions already made) arias
from:Beethoven-Fidelio
Mozart-Zaide, Die Zauberflöte
Weber-Der Freischütz
Wagner-any number of possibilities, but probably a tad "big" at your tender age!

Check out the bass anthologies edited by Adler and Larsen, both published by
Schirmer. The old Spicker anthology has been reprinted by Patelson's. A number of
good individual arias are published by Classical Vocal Reprints.

--
Jeffrey Snider, DMA
Associate Professor
College of Music
University of North Texas
Denton, TX 76203 USA

http://www.nessundorma.com/singers/baritone/SniderJres.html

[Hans Christian Hoff]

Suggestions::

Auch Ich war ein Jüngling - der Waffenschmied - Lortzing

Plumkett's Porterlied - Martha - Flotow

'Als Büblein klein' - Falstaff's drinking song from Otto Nicolai's Merry
Wives of Windsor (goes to low E, however)

'O Sancta Justitia' - Zar und Zimmermann - Lortzing

'Fünftausend Taler' - Wildschütz - Lortzing

Rocco's aria from Fidelio - 'Hat man auch was Gold beineben' ,

Good luck

Hans

[Francois]

Thank you. I really like the Fünftausend Taler. Gonna see if I can find the PDF for an audition.