pronounced than the lyric baritone or Spielbariton. Roles: Conte Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Count, Capriccio (Richard Strauss) Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Escamillo, Carmen (Georges Bizet) Ford, Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi) Lescaut, Manon Lescaut (Giacomo Puccini) Lord Enrico Ashton, Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti) Marcello, La bohème (Giacomo Puccini) Onegin, Eugene Onegin (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky) Rodrigo de Posa, Don Carlo (Giuseppe Verdi) Sharpless, Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini) Valentin, Faust (Charles Gounod) Wolfram von Eschenbach, Tannhäuser (Richard Wagner) Italian: baritono verdiano English equivalent: Verdi baritone Range: From about the A below low C (A2) to the G above middle C (G4) Description: A voice particularly effective with passages in its higher reaches. A high tessitura vis-a-vis the range extremes. A Verdi baritone refers to a voice capable of singing consistently and with ease in the highest part of the baritone range, sometimes extending up to the C above middle C (C5 or high C). The Verdi baritone will generally have a lot of squillo, or "ping" Roles: Scarpia, Tosca (Giacomo Puccini) Wozzeck (title role) (Alban Berg) Italian: baritono drammatico English equivalent: dramatic baritone Range: From about the G below low C (G2) to the F above middle C (F4) Description: Means 'heroic baritone'. In the German opera houses a true is a prized possession: a singer with exciting power and an authoritative mature sound and production. Roles: Alfio, Cavalleria rusticana (Pietro Mascagni) Amonasro, Aida (Giuseppe Verdi) Dr Schön / Jack the Ripper, Lulu (Alban Berg) Ezio, Attila (Giuseppe Verdi) Gérard, Andrea Chénier (Umberto Giordano) Iago, Otello (Giuseppe Verdi) Jack Rance, La fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini) Jochanaan, Salome (Richard Strauss) Macbeth (title role) (Giuseppe Verdi) Michele, Il tabarro (Giacomo Puccini) Don Pizarro, Fidelio (Ludwig van Beethoven) Simon Boccanegra (title role) (Giuseppe Verdi) Telramund, Lohengrin (Richard Wagner) Tonio, Pagliacci (Ruggero Leoncavallo) / Low lyric baritone English equivalent: lyric bass-baritone Range: From about the G below low C (G2) to the F above middle C (F4) Description: The bass-baritone's required range can vary tremendously based on the role, with some less demanding than others. Some bass-baritones are baritones, while others are basses. / Low dramatic baritone English equivalent: dramatic bass-baritone Range: From about the G below low C (G2) to the F above middle C (F4) Bass Basso cantante / Lyric bass-bariton / High lyric bass English equivalent: lyric bass-baritone or singing bass Range: From about the E