Bass-baritone

==Repertoire==

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'''The following operatic parts are performed by bass-baritones but sometimes by high basses:'''
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* Don Pizarro, ''[[Fidelio]]'' by [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]
* Golaud, ''[[Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)|Pelléas et Mélisande]]'' by [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]]
* Olin Blitch, ''[[Susannah]]'' by [[Carlisle Floyd|Floyd]]
* Méphistophélès, ''[[Faust (opera)|Faust]]'' by [[Charles Gounod|Gounod]]
* Leporello, ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' by [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] 
* Don Alfonso, ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' by Mozart
* Figaro, ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' by Mozart
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'''Core bass-baritone operatic parts:'''
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* Escamillo, ''[[Carmen]]'' by [[Georges Bizet|Bizet]]
* Igor<sup>*</sup>, ''[[Prince Igor]]'' by [[Alexander Borodin|Borodin]]
* Porgy, ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' by [[George Gershwin|Gershwin]]
* The 4 Villains, ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann]]'' by [[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]]
* Scarpia<sup>*</sup>, ''[[Tosca]]'' by [[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]]
* Dutchman, ''[[Der fliegende Holländer]]'' by [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]
* Hans Sachs, ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]'' by Wagner
* Wotan, ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'' by Wagner
* Amfortas, ''[[Parsifal]]'' by Wagner
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''' Bass-baritone parts in Gilbert and Sullivan works:'''
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* ''[[Trial by Jury]]'': Usher
* ''[[The Sorcerer]]'': Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre
* ''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'': Dick Deadeye
* ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'': The Pirate King
* ''[[Patience (opera)|Patience]]'': Colonel Calverley
* ''[[Iolanthe]]'': Lord Mountararat
* ''[[Princess Ida]]'': King Hildebrand
* ''[[The Mikado]]'': The Mikado of Japan
* ''[[Ruddigore]]'': Sir Roderic Murgatroyd
* ''[[The Yeomen of the Guard]]'': Sergeant Meryll
* ''[[The Gondoliers]]'': Don Alhambra del Bolero
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'''Other bass-baritone parts:'''
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* [[Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz)|''Roméo et Juliette'']] by [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]]
* Symphony No.15 by [[Rued Langgaard|Langgaard]]
* [[Cantabile (symphonic suite)|''Cantabile'', symphonic suite]] by [[Frederik Magle|Magle]]
* ''[[Gurre-Lieder]]'' by [[Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg]]
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<sup>*</sup> A role also sung by 'standard' baritones