I have listened to Big Ben sing In Fernem Land so many times over the years. The clarity of his diction, the incomparable tone and pitch of his voice. The degree to which he is in character, and the use of his eyes to express his joy. Yes, yes, his name is Lohengrin, son of Percival. Simply transporting. Thank you, Herr Hepner (I know he is Canadian :)
BRAVOOOOO!!!!!!!!; please come back to stage, the lyrical world needs heldentenors like you, ellegant, heartfelt, yet still heroic and powerful. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Schofield He had a great voice for the lighter Wagner-this role, Walter But something really went wrong, and he was not that old. I never heard a world class tenor with so many cracks in the later part of his career-he would be singing wonderfully, and then boom-I think it became too much for him I think Levine's pushing him into Tristan ruined his voice
+Labienus dear friend I am not so close to his performances,in the fact that saw him 3 times in live and the rest just in videos and Cd's (heard that,about him cracking quite frecuently).But I agree with you;when pushing a lyric tenor into heavy roles,he starts loosing the high placement in the high paladar and mask...he starts ussing too much glothis attacks!!!!. For sure,while respecting the enourmos diferences between maestro Heppner and myself,it happened to me. I studied with Alfredo Kraus (1996-97)and keep all the notes and indications;I retook this training and recovered my voice at my 50 years old (check my channel please). I am in the process still,but started to change the attacks from very high placement....this is working out.I guess that if I could,Ben Heppner by been far more talented,can also do it again.That us why I plead for his comming back.Best tegards,John Schofield (tenor)
John Schofield Probably better to keep a successful world class career in some of the most demanding repertoire separate from personal aspirations There was a period where as a Jugendlicher (though there is often a difference about what roles are classified there) he was magnificent. I heard him in some of those roles, but later heard him a lot more where he cracked badly. I think it eroded his confidence, made him unacceptable to me, and I wondered how he was able to keep singing in public. I'm sure this wore him down. He would often explain it based on allergies and medication, and others did on a large weight loss (maybe why Botha remains huge) They may have been factors, but as I said Tristan at the end of a career (for his voice) would have been one thing, but in his core years, a role so placed in the middle of his voice, and such a trial of endurance - and yes changed the placement of his voice. Sorry, I think the last chance was his attempt at Siegfried-and then cancellations was the end. A lot of singers sort of fade out of a career,but Heppner's public and formal reitirement is the end. Also the years to have corrected the problems and made a "come back" have passed.
Labienus Dear friend, sadly must say you migth be rigth...anyhow, the legacy of his good days and talent, remains in our hearts and ears. Thanks for answering so nicely my response. Receive my best regards and thanks again.Saludos. John Schofield
Floating up into that universe listening to his extraordinary interpretation, every note more glorious than the first. Extraordinary man, extraordinary career.
Wonderful singer ,great voice, great interpretation and delivery. One of the great tenors and best of all he always sounds like a true tenor not a reformed baritone.
Car Le chanter en ALLEMAND ..donne une émission moins fluide que dans la traduction française .. Belle voix Timbre homogène Ténor dramatique ...il n'est pas spinto.. Médium et grave solides...dans cet air on reste sur un LA NATUREL.. belle interprétation. Volume vocal imposant ..timbre homogène ..Justesse des notes Ich liebe Eluzalyrics.
Magnifique. À l'heure actuelle, les meilleurs ténors pour Wagner sont pour moi: Paul Frey, Ben Heppner, Siegfried Jérusalem et Jonas Kaufmann, et pas nécessairemt ds cet ordre. Ils sont ts superbes, chacun à sa façon.
Spectacular! This is on my playlist and after listening many times this version is absolutely most thrilling! Top favourite is his singing of the lead tenor in Fidelio. Ben Heppner, my favourite tenor, one of my top 3 favourite opera singers. With huge gratitude. 🧡🙇♀️
I heard Ben Heppner when he was a first-year student at the University of British Columbia. The voice was huge but not placed, that took some time. His achievements since then are amazing. And he is admired as a person, whose warmth and humility come through in his commentaries on the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. I agree with those who hear him as a dramatic tenor not a heldentenor, and wish he'd left Tristan and Siegfried to others -- nevertheless, he is a great man.
karifrid I forgot to say that I made a video of this aria 2011 as karifrid. I am like a "little brother"of Heppner. A smaller version (still big) I am 130 kilos and can lift 150 kilos on the bench. I hope to find a job, (even if I am not slim...)
you want to hear Ben Heppner in one of the BEST "modern" Lohengrin's, check out the 1998 Met Opera production with James Levine conducting him in the title role along with Deborah Voigt as Elsa, Deborah Polaski as Ortrud, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen as Telramund, Eric Halfvarson as Konig Heinrich and Eike Wilm Schulte as an absolute POWERHOUSE Heerrufer. only complaint about the recording is that they got kind of "arty-smarty" with the "stage position" left-right sound and many arias are one sided.
Great performance, wish it had been videotaped. Vastly better than the previously aired 1986 one (except of course for the tremendous Rysanek on the latter). Especially Heppner as compared to Peter Hoffman.
UN FRAGMENTO DE WAGNER que probablemente haga referencia a algo mágico que por otro lado los argumentos de las óperas de Wagner SON INSÓLITAS POR LO INCREIBLE DE ELLAS, PERO QUE UTILIZA PORQUE DAN MUCHO MARGEN PARA SU MÚSICA.
Heppner appeared this evening (October 20, 2017) in Toronto to introduce and discuss a program with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra of Mahler and and Howard Shore (a new and beautiful song cycle, world premiere, for mezzo and orchestra, with composer in the audience). Das Lied von der erde had Michael Scade in fine voice. Alas, no singing from the giant, Ben Heppner. His speaking voice in english and excellent french is nice, but...
Great (Jugendlicher Helden) spinto tenor. I dont think of him as a dramatic/heldentenor based on his bright tone quality, and the lack of the baritonal warmth in the mid to low register. However he has a very hefty voice and a piercing ring.
Sängerstimmen sind immer auch Geschmackssache - Bewertungen auf dieser Seite auch, vor allem wenn sie unter dem "Niveau" der Sänger liegen - mit wenig Sachkompetenz. Ich persönlich habe auch schon schwächere Aufnahemen von Herr Heppner gehört, diese ist sehr gut, aber er hier ist nicht in der Oper, wo er 4 oder mehr Stunden durchsingen muss! Thielemann dirigiert nicht alles ( gleich gut), aber das was er will (und das sind nur wenige Komponisten), kann er hervorragend!!
Stimme zu 100 prozentig!!! Geschmack diskutiert sich nicht. Heppner ist hier gut, sehr gut ...Wie lange noch wenn er weiterfährt wie J:K. und CALLAS die beide sich übertaten ? Bis zur Unkenntlichkeit, Ein menschlicher Körper nützt sich ab mit ihm die Stimmbänder!!!
Wenn Kaufmann ein Tenor wäre, könnte man ihn wenigstens zu Heppner in den Unterricht empfehlen. Aber Kaufmann würde besser bei Hampson lernen gehen. Fischer-Dieskau hat er leider verpasst.
Actually, he is past his best here, although he avoids cracking. The vibrato has loosened, and the tone is pinched and nasal compared to what I remember seeing him onstage in the 90’s.
Yes, that is more like it! But, at the end, everyone draws the note values out, it is better when they are done in tempo because it leads into the incredible music that follows, in the opera, not in this arrangement.
Many, if not almost everyone on the commentary loved his nasal hooked singing in this clip. Heppner's singing of Lohengrin eariler was not this way at all.
IF I am perfectly honest, I find this wholey unappealing, and lacking any good vocalism. What am I missing? Its lyrical. Ok, granted. But so what? It is ungathered, unfocussed, has a wobble due to bad coordination. I don't get why he ever became a thing.
I think I agree. Nice man, but he is neither Italiante, or a true Heldentenor. Rather thin over all tone. Bright certainly, but not quite a heroic ring. And his phrasing is a bit "square ", more noticable in Italian, where some portamenti would be welcome. Still, an intelligent and sincere artist.
Jetzt erst ,2024 ,gesehen...bravo,bravo..
phantastisch gesungen...und die Aussprache....besser geht es nicht....
Ein Heldentenor mit lyrischer Stimme. Interessant! Und mit einer exellenten deutschen Aussprache. BRAVO Heppner !
Super, die Stimme und sauber gesungen, man versteht jedes Wort! Toller Interpret und Herr Thielemann sehr souverän, was sonst❤
Diese deutliche Aussprache ist besser als bei den meisten Deutschen!
Eine herrliche Reise zum Walhalla.
Ben Heppner und Christian Thielemann zwei Legenden unserer Zeit.
I have listened to Big Ben sing In Fernem Land so many times over the years. The clarity of his diction, the incomparable tone and pitch of his voice. The degree to which he is in character, and the use of his eyes to express his joy. Yes, yes, his name is Lohengrin, son of Percival. Simply transporting. Thank you, Herr Hepner (I know he is Canadian :)
BRAVOOOOO!!!!!!!!; please come back to stage, the lyrical world needs heldentenors like you, ellegant, heartfelt, yet still heroic and powerful. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Schofield He had a great voice for the lighter Wagner-this role, Walter But something really went wrong, and he was not that old. I never heard a world class tenor with so many cracks in the later part of his career-he would be singing wonderfully, and then boom-I think it became too much for him
I think Levine's pushing him into Tristan ruined his voice
+Labienus dear friend I am not so close to his performances,in the fact that saw him 3 times in live and the rest just in videos and Cd's (heard that,about him cracking quite frecuently).But I agree with you;when pushing a lyric tenor into heavy roles,he starts loosing the high placement in the high paladar and mask...he starts ussing too much glothis attacks!!!!. For sure,while respecting the enourmos diferences between maestro Heppner and myself,it happened to me. I studied with Alfredo Kraus (1996-97)and keep all the notes and indications;I retook this training and recovered my voice at my 50 years old (check my channel please). I am in the process still,but started to change the attacks from very high placement....this is working out.I guess that if I could,Ben Heppner by been far more talented,can also do it again.That us why I plead for his comming back.Best tegards,John Schofield (tenor)
John Schofield Probably better to keep a successful world class career in some of the most demanding repertoire separate from personal aspirations
There was a period where as a Jugendlicher (though there is often a difference about what roles are classified there) he was magnificent. I heard him in some of those roles, but later heard him a lot more where he cracked badly. I think it eroded his confidence, made him unacceptable to me, and I wondered how he was able to keep singing in public. I'm sure this wore him down. He would often explain it based on allergies and medication, and others did on a large weight loss (maybe why Botha remains huge)
They may have been factors, but as I said Tristan at the end of a career (for his voice) would have been one thing, but in his core years, a role so placed in the middle of his voice, and such a trial of endurance - and yes changed the placement of his voice.
Sorry, I think the last chance was his attempt at Siegfried-and then cancellations was the end. A lot of singers sort of fade out of a career,but Heppner's public and formal reitirement is the end. Also the years to have corrected the problems and made a "come back" have passed.
Labienus Dear friend, sadly must say you migth be rigth...anyhow, the legacy of his good days and talent, remains in our hearts and ears. Thanks for answering so nicely my response. Receive my best regards and thanks again.Saludos. John Schofield
Gott welch dunkel hier
We are fortunate in Michigan to be able to listen to his program on Canadian radio. This is my music.
Ja , das ist DIE INTERPRETATION!
GLORIOUS SINGING!!!! One of the best renditions ever to be heard! Heppner leads us on
the pathway to the SOUL!! Bravo!
Floating up into that universe listening to his extraordinary interpretation, every note more glorious than the first. Extraordinary man, extraordinary career.
I remember seeing him in the Safeway in Dawson Creek about 10 years ago.
Back for a visit and a hometown concert.
Best in fernem land on UA-cam! Shame about the glitch in the recording
WAGNER eut été enchanté quelle qualité d'enregisterment !!!
fabulous version. Miss him on the stage.
Beautiful voice, great interpretation. Heppner is still one of the leading Wagner-tenors in the world.
A great dramatic tenor(Heldentenor) now retired. One of our many gifts from Canada.
élégant, clair et puissant - moderne sans rompre avec la tradition
Heppner ist und bleibt der best deutsche Saenger im Moment!
Perfect Wagner tenor!!!!!!!!!!
TOP- mit viel Gefühl und Ausdruck..
I heard him sing this song at Lanaudiere on a steamy night outdoors--very atmospheric.
Bravo marvelous heldentenor is Mr. Ben Heppner, a real joy to hear in this rpertorie (in the matter of fact in all what he sings!!!). BRAVOOO!!!
Wunder Ben Heppner!!!
Això es un Heldentenor ! ( maravellosa dicció i frasseig ).
Wonderful singer ,great voice, great interpretation and delivery. One of the great tenors and best of all he always sounds like a true tenor not a reformed baritone.
Mr. Heppner's Lohengrin is a lesson in Heldentenor singing!
Car Le chanter en ALLEMAND ..donne une émission moins fluide que dans la traduction française ..
Belle voix
Timbre homogène
Ténor dramatique ...il n'est pas spinto..
Médium et grave solides...dans cet air on reste sur un LA NATUREL..
belle interprétation.
Volume vocal imposant ..timbre homogène ..Justesse des notes
Ich liebe
Eluzalyrics.
Oh man yes. What an artist.
@@danieljouille7126 C'est ce que j'appelle U N C O M M E N T A I R E
Magnifique. À l'heure actuelle, les meilleurs ténors pour Wagner sont pour moi: Paul Frey, Ben Heppner, Siegfried Jérusalem et Jonas Kaufmann, et pas nécessairemt ds cet ordre. Ils sont ts superbes, chacun à sa façon.
Bravo! Yasss!!! Absolutely divine! 💛💛💛
Welch' holde Stimme!
Bellísima interpretación. Gracias.
ausgezeichnet !
Magnificent
Excellent! J'ai toujours apprécié Ben Hepner!
Spectacular! This is on my playlist and after listening many times this version is absolutely most thrilling! Top favourite is his singing of the lead tenor in Fidelio. Ben Heppner, my favourite tenor, one of my top 3 favourite opera singers. With huge gratitude. 🧡🙇♀️
I heard Ben Heppner when he was a first-year student at the University of British Columbia. The voice was huge but not placed, that took some time. His achievements since then are amazing. And he is admired as a person, whose warmth and humility come through in his commentaries on the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. I agree with those who hear him as a dramatic tenor not a heldentenor, and wish he'd left Tristan and Siegfried to others -- nevertheless, he is a great man.
Strong man, I like him.....
karifrid I forgot to say that I made a video of this aria 2011 as karifrid. I am like a "little brother"of Heppner. A smaller version (still big) I am 130 kilos and can lift 150 kilos on the bench. I hope to find a job, (even if I am not slim...)
Grossartig, bravo!!
Terrific!
Bravo maestro Bravo al Director y lagran Orquesta
Fantástico tenor
Bravissimo!!! Migliore!!!
This is glorious!
Favorite Canadian tenor
perfect Helden tenor
BRAVOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I never understood Wagner until i heard Ben Heppner; or its luminosity.
ドラマティックな歌ぃ方で私の好みです。
Das ist der beste Deutsche Heldentenor er gibt ein Beispiel von excellenter Gesangskunst
Gunter Jauch er ist Kanadier!
I just love his facial expression as he sings each line. His diction, his enunciation flawless. I am totally entranced by his performance. Magical.
!!!!BRAVO!!!!
This gives me chills. Amazing!
What a perfect WAGNERIAN TENOR
Der Heldentenor des 21. Jahrhunderts!!
Da kann Kaufmann total einpacken
Heute schon aber frèher nicht. Ganz sicher nicht
Buona prova...grazie
wow!!!
I love Ben Happier He was always "The Real Deal" no matter what he sang. Equally goo inNoel Coward! What a guy!
Wait. He put his 'goo' in Noel Coward? I never knew they dated.
Mario del Monaco made a superb recording of this and with reasonably good German -he never actually sang Wagner on stage though .
Correction.... THEE leading wagner tenor in the world.
Bravo
Toll ! Klingt fast historisch, diese Art zu singen. Woher kann der Mann so gut deutsch ? Ein Fall für Bayreuth...
Er ist in Österreich aufgewachsen, ist aber jetzt Kanadier.
@@helgawoehrle5101 Er wurde in Kanada geboren.
Interpretazione di prim'ordine!
you want to hear Ben Heppner in one of the BEST "modern" Lohengrin's, check out the 1998 Met Opera production with James Levine conducting him in the title role along with Deborah Voigt as Elsa, Deborah Polaski as Ortrud, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen as Telramund, Eric Halfvarson as Konig Heinrich and Eike Wilm Schulte as an absolute POWERHOUSE Heerrufer.
only complaint about the recording is that they got kind of "arty-smarty" with the "stage position" left-right sound and many arias are one sided.
Great performance, wish it had been videotaped. Vastly better than the previously aired 1986 one (except of course for the tremendous Rysanek on the latter). Especially Heppner as compared to Peter Hoffman.
👍🏻👍🏻
Such round, clear tones. Is he what is called a helden or heroic tenor? If so he certainly deserves that description. He is wonderful!
Add his diction and expressive delivery. I am completely captured by his storytelling, sung recitative. Mystery and wonderment....
Wonderful singing, on a par with Melchoir. A true heldentenor.
*_#GreatJob_* 🙌 📚 💖
Close to perfect - maybe already beyond it!
Unvergleichlicher Thielemann!!
UN FRAGMENTO DE WAGNER que probablemente haga referencia a algo mágico que por otro lado los argumentos de las óperas de Wagner SON INSÓLITAS POR LO INCREIBLE DE ELLAS, PERO QUE UTILIZA PORQUE DAN MUCHO MARGEN PARA SU MÚSICA.
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Video broken in the best part. Bummer
Brought here by Rene Kollo
Heppner appeared this evening (October 20, 2017) in Toronto to introduce and discuss a program with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra of Mahler and and Howard Shore (a new and beautiful song cycle, world premiere, for mezzo and orchestra, with composer in the audience). Das Lied von der erde had Michael Scade in fine voice. Alas, no singing from the giant, Ben Heppner. His speaking voice in english and excellent french is nice, but...
Great (Jugendlicher Helden) spinto tenor. I dont think of him as a dramatic/heldentenor based on his bright tone quality, and the lack of the baritonal warmth in the mid to low register. However he has a very hefty voice and a piercing ring.
das war oder ist ein toller tenor
Sängerstimmen sind immer auch Geschmackssache - Bewertungen auf dieser Seite auch, vor allem wenn sie unter dem "Niveau" der Sänger liegen - mit wenig Sachkompetenz. Ich persönlich habe auch schon schwächere Aufnahemen von Herr Heppner gehört, diese ist sehr gut, aber er hier ist nicht in der Oper, wo er 4 oder mehr Stunden durchsingen muss! Thielemann dirigiert nicht alles ( gleich gut), aber das was er will (und das sind nur wenige Komponisten), kann er hervorragend!!
Der Mann singt prima, hat aber ein kardiopulmonales Problem.
Stimme zu 100 prozentig!!! Geschmack diskutiert sich nicht. Heppner ist hier gut, sehr gut ...Wie lange noch wenn er weiterfährt wie J:K. und CALLAS die beide sich übertaten ?
Bis zur Unkenntlichkeit, Ein menschlicher Körper nützt sich ab mit ihm die Stimmbänder!!!
Too bad Ben isn’t singing anymore!
Deutscher oder nicht, er singt besser als alle Deutsche...Ansonsten gar nicht schlecht,ich meine, sehr gut für heutige Zeit.
@MsSkytrooper bei der deutlichen Aussprache könnte man meinen er sei Deutscher ;)
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Wenn Kaufmann ein Tenor wäre, könnte man ihn wenigstens zu Heppner in den Unterricht empfehlen. Aber Kaufmann würde besser bei Hampson lernen gehen. Fischer-Dieskau hat er leider verpasst.
Ja Liedersänger unter sich.... ist ja auch ein Talent ...
Frechheit so was
Well yes. He is not inferior to the earlier tenors - but true: He has no Flagstad to piss off, so his job is easier.
Actually, he is past his best here, although he avoids cracking. The vibrato has loosened, and the tone is pinched and nasal compared to what I remember seeing him onstage in the 90’s.
The 1998 Met radio broadcast captures him at his absolute best.
Yes, that is more like it! But, at the end, everyone draws the note values out, it is better when they are done in tempo because it leads into the incredible music that follows, in the opera, not in this arrangement.
the way he pronounces "bösen", you can hear he is no German:-)
He's a 'German'-Canadian : ))
He has a warm. powerful voice and expressive voice but there is a bit of a wobble hear.
Klang hört sich manipuliert an.
Many, if not almost everyone on the commentary loved his nasal hooked singing in this clip. Heppner's singing of Lohengrin eariler was not this way at all.
Das gerollte r erregt Heiterkeit,solide gesungen,aber Rene Kollo bleibt für dies Rolle die Spitzenbesetzung,Sorry,Bayreuth bleibt Bayreuth
Nun, Sie verstehen offenbar nichts von Gesangsausbildung, trotzdem gab es in Bayreuth noch einige mehr, die einen hervorragenden Lohengrin abgaben.
Ulrich Opfermann stimmt, aber für mich bleibts Plácido Domingo
Not a Heldentenor. Far from it.
IF I am perfectly honest, I find this wholey unappealing, and lacking any good vocalism. What am I missing? Its lyrical. Ok, granted. But so what? It is ungathered, unfocussed, has a wobble due to bad coordination. I don't get why he ever became a thing.
DaDooshinator
Would love to hear your rendition.
Merci 🙏
I think I agree. Nice man, but he is neither Italiante, or a true Heldentenor. Rather thin over all tone. Bright certainly, but not quite a heroic ring. And his phrasing is a bit "square ", more noticable in Italian, where some portamenti would be welcome. Still, an intelligent and sincere artist.