Reporting from New York — — At first glance, it appears that basses get the short end of the stick in opera. Even if they’ve managed to avoid mugging as a comic foil for the lovesick tenor, they are ...
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Rene Pape dropped his orb. He was onstage at the Metropolitan Opera last week, richly costumed and rehearsing Mussorgsky’s opera Rene Pape dropped his orb. He was onstage at the Metropolitan Opera ...
Solo opera albums can be the most strategic of recordings. They may show what you can already do, and also what roles you may want to do in the future. Case in point: Ben Heppner's 2006 album of ...
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This Saturday night, German bass René Pape closes out the Metropolitan Opera’s season singing Banquo in Verdi’s “Macbeth,” an interpretation he introduced to New York audiences last week. The ...
"René Pape’s bass showed considerable velvet sheen and elegant dynamic play; purely as singing and star presence, he impressed." Born in Dresden, Black Diamond Bass Rene Pape has been a member of the ...
The German opera singer René Pape, right, has withdrawn from the highly anticipated production of Wagner’s “Die Walküre,” the next installment of the “Ring” cycle, from La Scala in Milan and the ...