I think that I go through the same thing... I can hit a low bass C while @ the same time I can hit a Tenor G-Ab soooo am I a bass-baritone/bass/baritone. I consider myself a baritone due to my speaking voice! I really hate classifications too. B/c people think that I am a bass then they shove me down to singing low or assume that I can't sing high!!! That irritates me sooo much. That is why I really want to master speech level singing sooo that I can solidify my upper range. Sorry for the ranting... Anthony thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...> wrote: Having studied with one and been friends with the other, both of these artists considered themselves baritones. Artists are rarely responsible for how they are billed; ask any mezzo how many times she's been billed as a soprano.
Someone earlier mentioned Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as a bass-baritone: I have never seen him billed as such either.
Mark
"Sing on the interest, not on the principal" - Florence Page Kimball, to her student Leontyne Price "The voice is not a fist." - Fritz Wunderlich "I sing with a slim voice." - Birgit Nilsson
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Tako Oda wrote:
> Max van Egmond and William Parker are examples of this "cantate" type > of bass voice. I've actually seen Parker billed as a bass-baritone > before, if I'm not imagining things.
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