Bruce Ford unfolds his Assoluto Range (Ab2-D5) in Rossini's Heroic Baritenor Coloratura (Agorante)

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-From Agnello Dei:
This role is the most challenging male operatic; this scene begins the opera and the tenor must ascend with bravura and bite to a high B-flat, and immediately descends to low A, and that pattern of ascending and descending spanning 2 octaves (while no lingering in the middle) repeats till the cavatina, which is a gorgeous lyrical moment placed in the baritone tessitura, and after an interpolated high C, the written scale ends by descending to low A-flat (phrase starting at 4:45) then the cabaletta is back to heroic coloratura, requiring true agility with numerous leaps and drops of an octave and a half or two octaves, as well as stratospheric coloratura phrases reaching up to high D (phrase starting at 7:10). The challenges in this scene are comparable to the immediate weighty coloratura of Lady Macbeth and Abigaille, the mixture of heroic and lyrical writing found in Norma and Anna Bolena, the coloratura spanning 2 and a half octaves like Armida, the juxtaposition of low and stratospheric phrasing above the passaggio like Elisabetta in Roberto Devereux and Gemma di Vergy, and the leaps and drops within phrases found in Medea. But for a male voice. It's monstrous.

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Видео Bruce Ford unfolds his Assoluto Range (Ab2-D5) in Rossini's Heroic Baritenor Coloratura (Agorante) канала Lohengrin O