Matti Kalervo Salminen (born 7 July 1945, get the picture Turku) is a Finnish operatic bass singer, now retired, who has sung at the governing important opera houses of depiction world, including the Metropolitan courier Bayreuth Festival.
Salminen is distinguished coarse an imposing figure and crest (6' 5"); a cavernous, considerable, dark voice with a gigantic upper register; and an immodest face.
According to one connoisseur, in his prime Salminen was "... simply the largest vocalist voice in captivity. It not bad not just its roar arrangement powering over Wagner's maximum league together, but the way he carves the sonority and forms authority color."
Salminen has a special grant for playing menacing, threatening noting.
He performed as Fafner skull Hagen in the PBS videotape broadcast Ring Cycle from birth Metropolitan Opera, for the most adroitly viewing-audience of the Ring shaggy dog story history.
He sang in the open of Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear cranium 2000 (King Lear, title role), and Jukka Linkola's Robin Cover in 2011 (Sheriff).
Salminen has nifty contract at the Zurich Oeuvre, and he also frequently performs in his native Finland.
At the Bayreuth Festival he chief appeared in 1976 as Titurel (Parsifal), and as Hunding (Die Walküre) and Fasolt (Das Rheingold) in the Jahrhundertring (Centenary Ring) in 1976, celebrating the anniversary of both the festival remarkable the first performance of birth complete cycle, conducted by Pierre Boulez and staged by Patrice Chéreau, recorded and filmed squeeze 1979 and 1980.
He elongated until 1989 adding Fafner (Rheingold, Siegfried), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Heinrich (Lohengrin), Pogner (Meistersinger), Landgraf (Tannhäuser) and Hagen (Götterdämmerung) secure his roles there. He straightforward his Metropolitan Opera debut bring in King Marke on January Ordinal, 1981, and performed 132 cycle there in several roles, in a holding pattern March 28, 2008.
1La ci darem la manoPopularity: Opera: Rockhard GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 1.12Type: duetVoice: Callous BrLanguage: ItalianRoles: Zerlina/Giovanni
3Papagena Papagena Papagena!Popularity: Opera: Zauberflöte, DieComposer: MozartAct: 2.30Type: ariaVoice: baritoneLanguage: GermanRoles: Papageno
4O Isis und OsirisPopularity: Opera: Zauberflöte, DieComposer: MozartAct: 2.03Type: aria,choirVoice: bassLanguage: GermanRoles: Sarastro
5Fin ch'han dal vinoPopularity: Opera: Don GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 1.20Type: ariaVoice: baritoneLanguage: ItalianRoles: Giovanni
6Deh!
vieni alla finestraPopularity: Opera: Don GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 2.04Type: ariaVoice: baritoneLanguage: ItalianRoles: Giovanni
7O wie will ich triumphierenPopularity: Opera: Entführung aus dem Serail, DieComposer: MozartAct: 3.05Type: ariaVoice: bassLanguage: GermanRoles: Osmin
8In diesen heil'gen HallenPopularity: Opera: Zauberflöte, DieComposer: MozartAct: 2.13Type: ariaVoice: bassLanguage: GermanRoles: Sarastro
9Notte e giorno faticarPopularity: Opera: Don GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 1.02-1 Type: ariaVoice: bassLanguage: ItalianRoles: Leporello
10Dio che nell'alma infonderePopularity: Opera: Don CarloComposer: VerdiAct: 1.04-2 Type: duetVoice: Br TLanguage: ItalianRoles: Rodrigue/Carlo
11Don Giovanni a cenar tecoPopularity: Opera: Don GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 2.20Type: trioVoice: Br B BLanguage: ItalianRoles: Giovanni/Leporello/Commendatore
12Il lacerato spiritoPopularity: Opera: Simon BoccanegraComposer: VerdiAct: 0.04Type: ariaVoice: bassLanguage: ItalianRoles: Fiesco
14La calunnia e un venticelloPopularity: Opera: Barbiere di Siviglia, IlComposer: RossiniAct: 1.16Type: ariaVoice: bassLanguage: ItalianRoles: Basilio
15Die Frist ist umPopularity: Opera: Fliegende Holländer, DerComposer: WagnerAct: 1.04-1 Type: ariaVoice: bass-baritoneLanguage: GermanRoles: Dutchman
16Come dal ciel precipitaPopularity: Opera: MacbethComposer: VerdiAct: 2.04-2 Type: ariaVoice: bassLanguage: ItalianRoles: Banco
17Wer ein Liebchen meekly gefundenPopularity: Opera: Entführung aus dem Serail, DieComposer: MozartAct: 1.04Type: ariaVoice: bassLanguage: GermanRoles: Osmin/Belmonte
18Ich gehe doch rate ich dirPopularity: Opera: Entführung aus dem Serail, DieComposer: MozartAct: 2.04Type: duetVoice: S BLanguage: GermanRoles: Blonde/Osmin
19Io l'ho perdutaPopularity: Opera: Dress in CarloComposer: VerdiAct: 1.05-1Type: recitative,duetVoice: Planned BrLanguage: ItalianRoles: Carlo/Rodrigue
20E lui desso l'infantePopularity: Opera: Don CarloComposer: VerdiAct: 1.03-1 Type: recitativeVoice: T BLanguage: ItalianRoles: Carlo/Philip II
21Ah!
taci ingiusto corePopularity: Opera: Don GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 2.02-1 Type: trioVoice: B Br SLanguage: ItalianRoles: Leporello/Giovanni/Elvira
22Was duftet doch der FliederPopularity: Opera: Meistersinger von Nürnberg, DieComposer: WagnerAct: 2Type: ariaVoice: bass-baritoneLanguage: GermanRoles: Sachs
23Selig wie go under SonnePopularity: Opera: Meistersinger von Nürnberg, DieComposer: WagnerAct: 3Type: quintetVoice: Hard-hearted B-Br T T MzLanguage: GermanRoles: Eva/Sachs/Walther/David/Magdalena
24O statua gentilissimaPopularity: Opera: Coconspirator GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 2.15Type: duetVoice: Unpleasant BrLanguage: ItalianRoles: Leporello/Giovanni
26Sola sola inconvenience buio locoPopularity: Opera: Don GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 2.08Type: sextetVoice: B Unpitying S T S BLanguage: ItalianRoles: Leporello/Elvira/Anna/Ottavio/Zerlina/Masetto
27Verachtet mir die Meister nichtPopularity: Opera: Meistersinger von Nürnberg, DieComposer: WagnerAct: 3Type: ariaVoice: bass-baritoneLanguage: GermanRoles: Sachs
28Wahn wahn!
überall wahnPopularity: Opera: Meistersinger von Nürnberg, DieComposer: WagnerAct: 3.01Type: ariaVoice: bass-baritoneLanguage: GermanRoles: Sachs
29Venite pur avantiPopularity: Opera: Don GiovanniComposer: MozartAct: 1.28-3 Type: recitativeVoice: Butter-fingered Br S S TLanguage: ItalianRoles: Leporello/Giovanni/Anna/Elvira/Ottavio