Video Recording of 03/04/2025 Class
Basses: Then and Now
LINKS FOR BASSES
FEODOR CHALIAPIN
Singing Boris's monologue from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgOAduay9No (4:46)
Singing Mephistophele from Faust by both Boito and Gounod
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdrwb2ljyU (8:27)
Galitsky singing "I Hate a Dreary Life" from Borodin's Prince Igor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07v6Jq18EZY (3:53)
BORIS CHRISTOFF
Galitsky singing "I Hate a Dreary Life" from Borodin's Prince Igor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCVlbjpjp6I (3:53)
King Philip II singing "Ella giammai miamo" ("She doesn't love me") from Verdi's Don Carlos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYET-0jBd1Q (8:05)
Mephistopheles singing "Le veau d'or" from Gounod's Faust
www.youtube.com/watch?v=muy6DtnZ2Xg (1:59)
FERRUCCIO FURLANETTO
Boris singing "Dostig ya vyshey viasti" from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE0doFAZoYg (5:40)
Singing "Der Lindenbaum" from Schubert's "Winterreise"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uos-CVK9gKY (5:10)
Leporello singing "Catalogue Aria" from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDRjhPzyKZ0 (6:38)
Figaro singing "Se vuol ballare" from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCqaHwdWcGI (3:38)
NICHOLAI GHIAROV
Don Basilio singing "La calunnia" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSGPunm4PmA (6:20)
Tribute
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLF1GZ_JUiY (8:21)
Singing "Le veau d'or" from Gounod's Faust
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1uh_q9ZXnM (2:07)
SOLOMON HOWARD
Singing "Going Home"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgKfxazWfF0 (4:38)
Interview with Washington Full Circle
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8XQsjUEPoE (22:11)
KURT MOLL
Sarastro singing "Indiesen heil' gen Hallen" from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8WfRmhn6oM (3:54)
Singing in the Commendatore Scene from Mozart's Don Giovanni
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHSPT6LRDx4 (6:54)
King Marke singing "Tatest du's wirklich" from Act II of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfnfPz7MPs8 (12:24)
RENE PAPE
Mephistopheles and Faust (Jonas Kaufmann) singing at the end of Act I from Gounod's Faust
www.metopera.org (1:32)
Singing "My Heart is on Fire", Part 2 from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsEekKyYv_Y (7:11)
EZIO PINZA
Sarastro singing "O Isis und Osiris" from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lHeRL4RMCw (3:33)
Singing "Ombra mai fu" from Handel's Xerxes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wBZA0Ro25U (3:59)
Singing "Some Enchanted Evening" from Rogers and Hammerstein's The King and I
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvnNhwBaeY (3:00)
PAUL PLISHKA
King Philip singing "Ella giammai m'amò" from Verdi's Don Carlo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QuKZa_Q9GE (7:02)
Arturo, with Lucia (with Joan Sutherland), singing "Ebben di tua speranza...Ah, cedi, cedi" from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsHJICMltaE (6:33)
In conversation: "Classic Talk" with Bing and Dennis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af7f-WtEiQI (24:02)
MORRIS ROBINSON
Ferrando singing "Abbietta zingara" ("Despicable gypsy") from Verdi's Il Trovatore
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGYhaO89ydc (11:18)
Singing the Grand Inquisitor with King Philip II (Eric Owens) From Verdi's Don Carlos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbZR15k_zI (8:50)
Singing from Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN-ABb2eFNs (2:14)
MATTI SALMINEN
King Philip II and the Grand Inquisitor from Verdi's Don Carlos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxAGiMkNMNE (9:42)
Sarastro singing "O Isis und Osiris" from Mozart's Die Zauberflote
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMI6A68FBk (2:44)
MARTII TALVELA
King Philip II singing "Ella giammai m'amo" from Verdi's Don Carlos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biy71GzYNoo (9:45)
Singing Death Scene from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0ifv3i0Xr4 (10:10)
Questions and Additional Information
Please reach out to Instructor Margie Satinsky with questions and requests for additional information. Contact information is: (919) 383-5998 (home/work), or (919) 812-2235 (cell/text), or margiesatinsky@icloud.com.