terms: "I am self critic enough to understand what I can get at. Since I knew I did not have a thundering voice to make coarse effects, I sought the interpretation since I think it is more important that the public go home with something in their hearts than some sounds in their ears". He can be seen on commercial DVD in the role of Macbeth in a performance from the Deutsche Oper with Mara Zampieri and James Morris. Videography The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala, Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4538, 2009 Acknowledgements Carlo Maria Giulini: "I believe Renato Bruson now is the Falstaff. He has the wit, the intelligence, the dignity and, of course, the voice. Basta." Giuseppe Sinopoli: "Only the baritone Renato Bruson has a similar ability [to Mirella Freni) to make expression and word coincide, he explores it with all the semantic charge it contains. And this is not the result of an intellectual activity but is a privileged instinct". Music critic Christian Springer wrote of Bruson: "Bruson was the quintessential Verdi baritone in the second half of the last century. A Verdi baritone not as it was understood (or rather, misunderstood) in the 1950s and 1960s, but a Verdi baritone as understood and desired by the composer himself." Honors and awards Bruson has received numerous honors, including: Honorary citizenship of Fermo Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Urbino Honorary citizenship of Parma Honorary citizenship of Ortona (birth city of Francesco Paolo Tosti, of whom he performed many works) Honorary citizenship of Palmi (birth city of Francesco Cilea) Honorary membership of the "Donizetti Society" of London Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Italian Republic Commendation of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta Kammersänger awarded by the Wiener Staatsoper He received the Orphée d'or by the French Académie du disque Lyrique in 1980 for the Luisa Miller on Deutsche Grammophon. Notes References Tita Tegano – Renato Bruson: 40 anni di "Recitar cantando" (40 Years of Acting by Singing) – Pantheon, 2001, Tita Tegano – Renato Bruson: L'interprete e i personaggi – Azzali Editore, 1998 External links Discography [ Biography] Video of the final rehearsal of La Traviata with Renato Bruson as Giorgio Germont in the online-archive of the Österreichische Mediathek Italian operatic baritones 1936 births Living people Österreichischer Kammersänger 20th-century Italian male opera singers People from the Province of Padua