In a message dated 3/29/2001 4:37:47 PM Eastern Standard Time,
dalila@R... writes:
dalila@R... writes:
<< Sounds like it's time for you to look at Mephistopheles in Busoni's DR
FAUSTUS and the Drum Major in WOZZECK. The Duke in RIGOLETTO and Paco in
LA VIDA BREVE aren't exactly "nice guys" either. Peter Grimes, Capt. Vere,
Aschenbach, King Herod, Peter Quint, Tarquinius, Eleazar, Otello, even
Pinkerton - these are all hardly "nice guy" roles.
>>
huh??? i'm not sure if you are suggesting bad guys for me to look at
(i am a low baritone) or you're confusing me with someone who suggested most
bad guys are low voiced (which he didn't. he suggested that low voices had
the reputation for being bad).
at any rate, i was lamenting the fact that i was always stuck playing
good guys when all the other baritones, and some of the tenors, were having
all that fun playing buttheads.
somewhat related...what's that stravinsky thing where satan is a tenor
and god is two basses? i heard the boston symphony do it when i was in high
school and i cannot remember what it is called.
mike
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