The Twenty Most Beautiful Bass Arias
In opera, the bass voice is traditionally the voice of authority – real or imagined; basses portray fathers, kings, priests, gods and, occasionally, monsters. These characters carry the weight of responsibility, the melancholy of old age, and are often only all too aware of their crumbling power, their position as relics of a previous age being replaced by a new order. This playlist showcases some of the greatest basses to be captured on record and features great scenes and arias from Russian opera – always particularly enamoured of the bass voice – as well a variety priests, fathers and kings from Italian, French, German and Czech works.
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