AboutPamela Thomas Expertise Questions on Opera performance, repertoire, vocal technique, acting for opera. I have some 20 years experience in opera in both leading roles and chorus. I have sung with New York City Opera since 1981. I have studied voice in NYC for over 20 years and have also taught technique and coached singers in acting.
I'm semi-professional bass and i need a bass/mezzo duet (from an opera or it can be a lied or russian romance)
Can you list at least 5 and we can select one...
Thanks for answering my egoistic question...
Answer Hi Onay,
Mezzo-Bass duets are very hard to find. But here are a few suggestions and things you might look at:
La ci darem la mano - Don Giovanni (Zerlina is often done by a mezzo)
From Marriage of Figaro - Non piu Andrai - Figaro sings the aria to Cherubino - no singing but nice acting scene
There's a trio from Trovatore - Count, Azucena and Ferrando in Act III "In braccio al mio rival".
Italian in Algiers - Mustafa and Isabella.
there is a duo in Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saens
There is also a mezzo-bass duet in Mignon by Ambrose Thomas
Maria Stuarda - Maria & Talbet duet (Maria can be done as a mezzo)
Roberto Devereux - Sara and Nottingham duet
La Favorita - Leonora & Alfonso duet
DVORAK, A.: Vocal Music (Love Songs and Folk Duets) (Ciesinski, Hirst, Ostendorf) Recording - you might look at this recording - there may be a bass/mezzo duet among the duets.
You can also look to Broadway - "Anything you can do, I can do better" - from Annie Get Your Gun; Carousel - if your mezzo have some good high notes - but most of the Broadway sopranos don't have very high ranges.
I'm sure there are others - but maybe this will get you started.
