Matti Salminen - Boris Godunov - Monologue & "Clock Scene"

[@talvela100]

Straordinario Matti

[@srr10]

Matti is a legend, and this video shows why....voices like ths appear only a few times in a generation......

[@johnblasiak607]

A real bass is as rare as a white elephant

[@photo161]

"...A few times in a generation." Really? What happened to our generation then?!

[@photo161]

What year was it, someone please, -(sometime in the the'80s I believe) - when a much acclaimed Soviet production was given at the Met featuring two casts that included several spectacular bassos, including Salminin, such as had so very rarely been heard here in the West?

[@BorisGodunov]

A colleague of mine was on stage once with Salminen, and reported that when he sang, it was like a wall of sound hit her. Amazing voice!

[@marcelkegels7749]

Dit is de absolute top !!! Superklasse !

[@paulostroff99]

Awesome! TY Gabba02 for posting

[@침묵의소리-s8e]

Oh my God what happen with this man.. so great!!!!

[@photo161]

His international appearances were highly restricted by the Soviet - read, Stalinist- communist regime.

[@CarlosGomes-wi2ti]

​@@photo161 you are probably thinking about someone else. Salminem is finnish. He never was under the soviet regime. He had a great, aclaimed internatinal career since the 70s, until his retirement in 2016.

[@paulostroff99]

Superb.TY for posting.

[@efloWoreN]

No. I listned this Talvela whom everybody looking up to and I cannot tell that Talvela can be compare to Salminen. Salminen voice has beautiful great color, is sonorous and he can sing. Agree with MadameTheresa Salminen is the finest Tsar.

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

Martti Talvela has better low notes than Matti Salminen, but Matti Salminen has a bigger top and more ferocious personality. Martti Talvela is great at sympathetic, tragic characters, but Matti Salminen is better for savage, threatening, menacing characters. His signature role is Hagen. Wagner conductors all over the world adjusted their schedules to accommodate Matti Salminen's availability during the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.

[@NormanicusDiabolicus]

Have you seen this opera? This is a sure must for me.

[@RustDemon79]

Always has been my favorite opera. With a few minor exceptions (Beethovens 6th and Ravels Borelo) Russian composers are far, FAR supreme in passion of music.

[@celloguy]

RustDemon79 haha Ravel's Bolero as an example of passion. Amazing what some people hear!

[@NormanicusDiabolicus]

What a magnificent sonorous voice! What version is this:- Mussorsky's original, Rimsky Kosakoff's, or Shostakovich?

[@k545]

Rimsky-Korsakov Version....the best one I might add:P although the original is not far behind

[@johnblasiak607]

It’s more thrilling when the top is a a G but not many can do it of course his bottom is poor and top lacks ping without it a bass is a boring voice that’s why so are few are STARS EZIO Pinza was Chaliappin was the greatest because he understood this and played on it he was a pure genius never captured on recordings Gigli was a God but was second to Challiapin in real life and in Giglis book he said the great man past the accolades onto him in performances. Basses are so in the dark and a true one is rare it’s not the low notes it’s the power and recordings don’t express it

[@malmangelucci]

is this guy huge? or is the conductor really small?

[@ColonelFredPuntridge]

Matti Salminen is six feet five inches (I'm talking about how tall he is.....)

[@MadameTheresa]

Pity this is the rimsky Korsakov version -- Moussorgsky was twice the instrumentalist Rimsky was...but there is no finer interpreter of the Tsar than Salminen.

[@wartburg88]

Matti is superb, but I prefer, however slightly, Martti. Man, these Finns can sing.

[@marksmith3947]

Do those Finns learn Russian in school just in case?....