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  • Matti Salminen

    Finnish operatic bass, now retired (born )

    For the Finnish Olympic rower, see Matti Salminen (rower).

    Matti Kalervo Salminen (born 7 July ) is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired,[1][2] who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival.[3] He is distinguished by an imposing figure and height (6' 5"),[4] a cavernous, heavy, dark voice with an expansive upper register, and an expressive face.

    According to one reviewer, in his prime Salminen was " simply the largest bass voice in captivity. It is not just its roar in powering over Wagner's maximum orchestra, but the way he carves the sonority and forms the color."[5]

    Salminen has a special gift for playing menacing, threatening characters.

    He performed as Fafner and Hagen in the PBS video broadcast Ring Cycle from the Metropolitan Opera, for the largest viewing-audience of the Ring in history.

    Matti Kalervo Salminen (born 7 July ) is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired, [1] [2] who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. [3].

    Biography

    Salminen was born in Turku. In his youth he earned money for voice lessons by singing Finnish tangos in night clubs.[6] He has published an anthology of Finnish tangos.[7] He first caught public eye as a lucky understudy in the role of King Philip II, when he was just 24 years old.

    He continued performing this role until (almost) the end of his career; a DVD was released in [8]

    Salminen is a widely video-taped singing actor with three different performances as Hagen available on DVD; also two performances as the Commendatore, several as Sarastro, two as Hunding and two as Daland. Videotaped performances and films are also available as King Phillip II, the Grand Inquisitor, Seneca, Gurnemanz, Pogner, King Marke, Kaspar, Rasputin, Boris Godunov, and Prince Ivan Khovansky.

    Boris orlob management - MattiSalminen: Finnish bass, Matti Salminen, studied first at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and later in both Rome (with famed pedagogue Luigi Ricci) and Düsseldorf. After joining the Finnish National Opera as a chorus member, he advanced to small roles, making his formal debut in

    At the Bayreuth Festival he first appeared in as Titurel (Parsifal), Hunding (Die Walküre), and Fasolt (Das Rheingold) in the Jahrhundertring (Centenary Ring) in , celebrating the centenary of both the festival and the first performance of the complete cycle, conducted by Pierre Boulez and staged by Patrice Chéreau, recorded and filmed in and He continued until adding Fafner (Das Rheingold, Siegfried), Daland (Der fliegende Holländer), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Heinrich (Lohengrin), Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Landgraf (Tannhäuser) and Hagen (Götterdämmerung) to his roles there.

    He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as King Marke on 9 January , and performed times there in several roles, until 28 March [9]

    He sang in the premiere of Sallinen's Kuningas Lear in (King Lear, title role),[10] and Jukka Linkola's Robin Hood in (Sheriff).

    Aside from operatic roles, Salminen also performs in sacred music and concert recitals. He gave a farewell concert at the Zürich Opera House in December [11]

    Awards and honors

    • Salminen has won two Grammy Awards for Best Opera Recording, in and , both for recordings of Wagner.[12]
    • In , Salminen received the ICMA Lifetime Achievement Award.[13]
    • In he received the Pro Finlandia Medal of the Order of the Lion of Finland.[14]
    • He was recognized with the title Kammersänger in three times: in Berlin in , and in Bavaria and Austria in [15]

    See also

    References

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    2. ^He is listed as "retired", but he apparently sang as Pogner the Goldsmith in Die Meistersinger in April , see here:
    3. ^Ruth-Esther Hillila, Barbara Blanchard Hong () Historical dictionary of the music and musicians of Finland Greenwood Publishing Group. p.

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    6. ^"At Bottom, He's an Actor Who Sings&#;: Music: When Matti Salminen was 17, he had a brief role in an amateur ensemble.

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      Matti Salminen (Bass) Born: July 7, - Turko, Finland: The Finnish bass, Matti Salminen, has studied music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and with the famous Maestro Luigi Ricci in Rome.

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    7. ^Label: Koch Schwann (Germ.) ASIN: BB5MZ
    8. ^"VERDI: Don Carlo (Complete opera) ()". 27 October
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    10. ^Anderson, Martin. Strong and Simple. Interview with Aulis Sallinen. Finnish Music Quarterly magazine, 2/
    11. ^"ZÜRICH/ Opernhaus: ABSCHIEDSKONZERT MATTI SALMINEN – Persönlichkeit ist das Geheimnis oder Der Fels in der Brandung".

      Matti salminen biography of barack Matti Kalervo Salminen (born 7 July ) is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired, [1] [2] who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. [3].

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    12. ^"Matti Salminen". . 19 November
    13. ^"Matti Salminen: "I realised the importance of the economy in expression: less is more"". Pizzicato. Luxemburg. 9 February Retrieved 6 March
    14. ^"Suomen Leijonan Pro Finlandia -mitalin saajat ".

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    19. ^"Finnisches Urgestein, basstönend – Matti Salminen zum Geburtstag - neue musikzeitung". nmz (in German). Retrieved 9 December

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