In a Different Voice: Then and Now Winter 2025 Opera Course

Video Recording of 02/18/2025 Class

Baritones: Then and Now, Part II

LINKS FOR BARITONES: PART II

SIMON KEENLYSIDE

Figaro singing "Largo al Factotum" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwmqA8Fz7_I (5:03)

Don Giovanni singing "La ci darem la mano" ("There we will give each other our hands") from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLoeJzZcSx8 (3:45)

With Joseph Calleja, singing "Au fond du temple saint" ("At the back of the holy temple") from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHs6kKP2soQ (5:14)

QUINN KELSEY

Rigoletto singing "Cortigiani  vil razza dannata" ("Courtiers, vile damned race. For what price will you sell my wellbeing?") from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv2B-ewY6TY (4:32)

Ukulele Opera
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSMvWuAyHw (2:35)

Ankarstrom singing "Alla vita che t'arride" ("Your life, so rich in joy..") from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMYaZ9ZFRic (1:46)

MARIUSZ KWIECIEN

Don Giovanni singing the "Champagne Aria" from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUOWb40LIuw&index=11&list=FL8FkN3H--c_niX0angvGaPg (1:25)

Eugene Onegin singing "Kogda bi zhizn" ("You wrote to me, do not deny it!") from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccGKhjEOEuE (3:54)

Classic Talk with Bing & Dennis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQj45Ux-FnY&list=LLAAPuzjtxnpuoDqZRVG5C-A&index=1286 (24:41)

WILL LIVERMAN

Charles M. Blow singing "Peculiar Grace" from Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGo4mSQs3wk (4:17)

Onegin singing "Kogda bi zhizn" ("You wrote to me, do not deny it!") from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjjTlF7kfvA (5:18)

Singing the role of Dizzy Gillespie in Charlie Parker's Yardbird and commenting on his career
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKoCAEAA34 (4:04)

Living Room Recital
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIzirK7Ug_U (48:43)

CORNELL MacNEIL

Rigoletto singing "Povero Rigoletto" from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-2nQRmvwqQ (7:36)

Rigoletto singing high A at the end of Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqGdLtRJIDs (0:38)

Scarpia singing "Tre sbirri…Te Deum" from Puccini's Tosca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8drHhYSMg (4:14)

ROBERT MERRILL

Singing the "Star-Spangled Banner" at Yankee Stadium, 1968
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_LkshhFiHU (1:35)

Singing Rogers and Gounod
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FauzdeUGeM (8:01)

SHERRILL MILNES

Singing the Prologue from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXM43JsBIjw (5:31)

Iago singing "Credo in un dio crudel"("I believe in a cruel God") from Verdi's Otello
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pesXB2rtMBw (5:02)

Singing "Pieta rispetto, amore" ("Compassion, respect, and affection, the comfort of declining years") from Verdi's Macbeth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7YrVTPR38k (5:27)

A conversation between Sherrill Milnes and Fred Plotkin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcglkFs-xAM (1:54:58)

Singing "Maria" from Bernstein's West Side Story
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Kj3M3aNN4g (3:22)

LEO NUCCI

Figaro singing "Largo al factotum" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpG_zhg6BdU (4:40)

Rigoletto singing "Cortigiani, vil razza dannata" ("Courtiers, vile, damnable rabble") from Verdi's Rigoletto
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFuAYfe0V8k (5:13)

HERMANN PREY

Hermann Prey and Peter Alexander (1972) – variety of arias and humor, including scene from Rossini's The Barber of Seville
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3Fr5DH4qr8 (20:53)

Singing Schubert lieder
www.youtube.com/watch?v=81QMNcg0PB0 (33:18)

ANTONIO SCOTTI

Belcore singing "Come paride vezzoso" ("Just as the charming Paris" from Act I of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=56quicPDUkY (3:11)

Singing "La ci darem la mano" from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4F8SGARRRY (3:41)

PAUL SZOT

With Kelli O'Hara, Emile DeBeque singing "Some Enchanted Evening" from Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOqK_eWX3YY (3:21)

Singing "This Nearly Was Mine" from Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtuMJkcUTw  (4:42)

Singing Act I, Scene 3 from Shostakovich's The Nose
metopera.org/discover/video/?videoName=the-nose-scene-3-paulo-szot&videoId=2717406330001 (2:34)

LAWRENCE TIBBETT

Singing "Goin' Home" from Dvorak's New World Symphony
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9ChiBPJqmg (5:14)

Singing "Il balen" ("The flashing of her smile outshines a star") from Verdi's Il Trovatore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bteoTBV5AM (3:48)

LEONARD WARREN

Renato/Count Anckarstrom singing "Eri tu" from Verdi's Un ballo in Maschera
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WM8A87dHlY (4:51) Don Carlo singing "Morir!

Tremenda cosa" (To die, a momentous thing") from Verdi's La Forza del Destino
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbvlP56FXdg (8:41)

BERND WEIKL

Wolfram singing "O du, mein holder Abenstern" ("O Evening Star") from Wagner's Tannhauser
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0fO6V601s (5:31)

Hans Sachs singing "Wahn, Wahn" from Wagner's Die Meistersinger
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAD-VPi_CxI(7:35)

Rodrigo singing "O Carlo Ascolta" from Verdi's Don Carlos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2XPgCtxXdU(3:31)

GIORGIO ZANCANARO

Posa singing "O Carlo, Ascolta" from Verdi's Don Carlos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h84tOF497B0 (3:55)

Germont singing "Di Provenza il mar, il sol" ("What has vanished from your heart, the dear sea and soil of Provence?") from Verdi's La Traviata
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uCMthTErbw (5:12)