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The Other Great Welsh Bass-Baritone
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- Опубліковано 11 тра 2008
- Sir Geraint Evans singing "Oh Diamond Shine" from "The Tales of Hoffmann". This is better known as "Scintille Diamant" from "Les Contes d'Hoffmann". But here it is sung in English.
This aria is by Offenbach but it is not originally from Hoffmann. It is from "Le Voyage Dans La Lune". In some modern productions it is now cut.
This performance is from a TV broadcast with Michele Molese as Hoffmann.
Evans had a range and a repertoire very much like that of Bryn Terfel. Evans was shorter so he played a lot of short guy parts like Papageno and Beckmesser. Terfel being taller, gets to do Sachs and Giovanni.
Overall however Evans voice is darker and a little more dramatic than Terfel's. Both have been famous Leporellos and Falstaffs.
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What a beautifully rich and dusky timbre.Evans was just a superb bass baritone. Bravo Evans!
I adore Evans...I wish there was more of him posted on UA-cam.
I remember seeing this production on PBS years ago. I do not know when it was filmed but Evans does some of his most beautiful singing here that I have ever heard from him. Transposed down a full tone which suited him well. His splendid instrument sounded more smooth & sonorous than was sometimes the case but the occasional roughness in timbre never bothered me & was an ideal voice for FALSTAFF which I saw him do in Seattle as late as 1978. His aria album from the 1960s is notable also for its variety of repertoire although the PAGLIACCI prologue, sung with the optional high A flat at the end should have been re recorded or, better yet, sung as written.
The wonderful,and inimitable Sir Geraint Evans at his best! Thank you for sharing this clip. It has brought much pleasure to a fellow Welshman!!
I simply loved the sound of Geraint's voice - so mellifluous and beautiful. Something about singers from Wales - Terfel, Tear, Burrows, Della Jones, Helen Watts, Margaret Price, Dame Gwyneth. I saw Evans many times at the Lyric here in Chicago - Falstaff, Balstrode in Peter Grimes and others.
And don't forget Donald MacIntyre.
Welsh opera singer are some of the greats for sure!
I had the great pleasure of hearing Geraint Evans and Carlo Bergonzi in L'Elisir d'amore at Covent Garden in about 1984. My greatest night in the opera house. Evans tried to be a baritone early in his career but failed to complete his first performance as Rigoletto in about 1948. After that he remained a bass, and a very great one at that.
Thank you for posting and Kievest for sharing this miraculous recording of the great and unforgettable maestro Evans's video!!
Maravilloso....!!!
OMG--so great!! Why have I never heard of this singer? I came across his name and photo in a book about WWII with Evans shown in his uniform, being accepted into a chorus, and decided to look for him here.
Oh!! I hope God give the gift of singing so beautiful!!
"Leuchte, heller Spiegel mir (Hoffmanns Erzählungen) - Awesome". Grand Voice...! Thank You For Üplöading!
the highest note evans sings here is an f sharp, and very nicely sung, too.
I like this voice!
Meraviglioso
TERFEL "SHOULD LISTEN" to EVANS. This is SPLENDID SINGING, NEVER TO BE
HEARD ON THE OPERATIC STAGE TODAY
You're both right. Some times it's a A and other times it's an F#. This is an included strophic song from another show. It can be sung in almost any key. When they have four separate villians it is usually sung by a high baritone like Milnes. When there is but one villian it is usually sung by a lower baritone like Evans or Morris.
As written, the high note is a G#... but the heavier voices often transpose it down a note. Sounds like he could have hit the G#, though.
The year of this video was 1973, I believe, as I remember watching it on national TV at college. However, it's not listed in the Wikipedia article on him.
Right.
He is singing a high f#, the high terce of the D major scale. So he begins at the low A.
Higher baritones sing it in E major and hit a g#.
I hade a score myself in Eb major to hit a high g.
Dieskau sang it in E major and just went up h-c#-d#-e.
The real point is that he has optimal "klang" in the mask all the way.
OK, OK, I submit. Evans is best.
I'm at a disadvantage here. I've heard Evans sing live several times but never Terfel. I absolutely love Terfel's singing but I think Evans had a slightly lower voice. Evans sang many bass parts and few pure high baritone ones. Terfel on records sounds to me like a bass-baritone who leans toward the baritone side. BTW Evans had a big voice.
This certainly is a great dark baritone -no doubt about that .
A richer voice than Bryn Terfel.
Thanks, but - just for clarity - I was referring to Evans as Beckmesser sustaining the top A in Die Meistersinger Act III (the "wachs" of "Dass Nürnberg schusterlich blüh und wachs!").
I agree that Geraint's voice seems to be more sonorous than Terfel's in the extreme lower register. & it is a very full timbred voice throughout with plenty of resonance. I always felt that, particularly in the latter part of his career, Gobbi too was more bass baritone than baritone. Although in his early career he had a decent high A, his lower voice was stronger than many if not most of his contemporaries.
Let's get this in perspective - he is the ONLY GREAT Welsh Bass Baritone!
@bretul
The Welsh of course are a singing people. See the great film about the stand at Roarke's Drift - ZULU! The Welsh engineering company caught with no where to run, defies the Zulu army with song. Rousing stuff that!
Evans' top A, as Beckmesser, was pretty good.
Andre - how are you doing? Long time no hear.
I thought you at first you were responding to something I wrote - and I couldn't remember writing any such thing about Terfel. But now I see it's just one of the commenters who made this silly remark. I have been involved in two vocal disputes here. I wrote that while I liked Pavarotti very much I prefered real dramatic tenors for dramatic parts. I also told people who like Brian Stokes Mitchell to try Terfel for "The Impossible Dream".
Much prefer him to Warren or Merrill. Excellent and exciting.
But the wobble...
Lol! Hullo there and I'm blessed thanks and you? No I was responding to someone who obviously doesn't like Terfel, and that's okay, but who also obviously knows nothing about the voice and its structure etc, and that's NOT okay. I love that whole album Terfel recorded of the musicals and think it is fantastic! Now there we differ because I prefer the lighter voices with a lot of ping in them, like Grigolo, who I am in love with, lol don't tell my wife, or Beltran, or Vargas, or Brownlee etc etc.
Why Evans doesn't sing the original French text ? Imagine "God save the King" sung in German ! Every opera singer should be a polyglot.
Didn't know that. My bad.
Maybe. We'll see. He's moving into the Wagnerian Heldenbariton fach. If he blows his voice out on that stuff he can always retreat to Rossini Buffo roles.
And what baritone roles did he sing?
As a retired baritone myself and having majored in the belcanto repertoire mostly, I have to totally disagree with you about Mr Terfel's voice being too wide open. Mr Terfel has a beautifully covered tone and being a bass-baritone he would never be able to sing his top note, G, as effortlessly as he does if he was not covering the tone. If you have any technical knowledge about singing you will notice that Mr Terfel begins covering round about D already and takes it all the way up to the top.
Terfel sings too open - he is always wide open - good for lieder but not the right quality for most opera rep i believe - just an opinion but Terfel doesn't seem to be aging well with his technique
What year is this from please?
1973 or so.
canta in playback
I am enjoying the vocalism just fine, but I can barely understand a word he's saying....