Rene Pape - Faust - Le Veau d'Or

René Pape sings the devil's aria from Gounod's Faust.
Richard Tucker Gala, 2001

[@mkbub]

omgosh!! i can't get over how good this guy is. phenomenal singer, fantastic actor. i love the way he snaps his neck right b4 he starts!

[@cimbassovr]

Artista meraviglioso,voce sontuosa che piacere ascoltarlo e vederlo....rinfranca il cuore e la mente.

[@joeyhemlock]

Just saw him sing it tonight in Chicago. It was an absolutely stellar show.

[@elisethora16]

Seeing him perform at the met was so great! This scene was so awesome!

[@DaMum]

Pape is simply the best! What a voice!

[@mathildehb0076]

Well, Ramey can at least sing every word clearly…

[@wotan3000]

words slips - these things are inevitable when performing so often the fact that you don't hear them often and when they do they are well-disguised with him is a testament to his professionalism remember that opera has a prompter's box for a reason.... it's insanely difficult to do everythign all at once... words, tones, pitches, rhythms, visuals... no one is perfect.

[@gracek703]

Great voice He is very charming

[@IsraelLeviHernandez]

Saw him today at the Met. the man is amaaazingg on stage!

[@FacePaster]

Gorgeous voice! I'd love to hear him in person.

[@gianandrea.navacchia]

Bellissimo!

[@bodiloto]

BRAVO !!!

[@max_unger]

Bravo!!!

[@ILikeOpera]

Just remember we are all human (even Great Opera stars) not machines. You never know what is going through ones mind or what happens before walking on stage.

[@rexeterna]

haha. love how all the chicks in the orchestra are smiling before he starts singing!!!

[@hagst27]

His French diction is amazingly precise and clear. Many Slavic and Italian singers may have a voice with richer harmonics but they are unable to handle the tricky French sounds. And René Pape can also sing in Russian, go figure!

[@vendulam88]

BRAVO RENE!!

[@sargisbm]

Bravo!

[@hamster13]

very good! right now he is in norway singing in Don Carlo.

[@djjmmm]

I saw him Saturday night in Chicago. He was absolutely incredible. So were Beczala and Meachem (whom I saw as Don Giovanni in Santa Fe).

[@RossiniSoprano]

Compared to many of the other versions of this aria on KZbin, Pape sounds like a baritone, not a bass.

[@caycloker901]

BESTTTTT¡¡¡¡

[@hagst27]

J'adore le léger sourire (à 1.13) quand il réalise avoir fait une erreur de texte !

[@mausimama1]

If you think this is good than listen to the version he sings on his CD "Gods, Kings and Demons". That one is georgeous! Faster, better pronounced and of course without any text mistakes. I can only recommend his CD.

[@MTondeleo]

I agree with you 100%. Pape is a marvelous singer and actor, have seen him at the Met as Mephistopheles. But I wanted to hear the roar of the basso, like Furlanetto or Ramey or - and here I agree 100% with Morihirosan - the definitive satanic one, Boris Christoff. When he sang "La bas!" you realy knew he meant, "Down there in hell."

[@jacquesurlus3455]

1:04 … Le veau d'or est vainqueur des dieux!

[@jfsanin]

I agree

[@UKbasso22]

@DanyNicola Oh, my fault. I thought you were referring to Rene Pape from the previous comment. I'll have to take a look at the Sparafucile and Fiesco.

[@mkbub]

wow, i just noticed his little stuff-up there in the text. yeah, a little odd for his level, but it doesn't change the fact that HE'S STILL A FREAKING BEAST!!!

[@UKbasso22]

@DanyNicola Well he doesn't have much of a low range on O Isis und Osiris, so I'm not sure what makes him similar to a bass either.

[@domitius4]

following Lordhettrick, hagst27 and DIEZAUBERFLOTEMENSCH: yes he does a mistake at the beginning of 2nd verse; and the smiling grimace means he knows it; but he keeps on without loosing his head! great!! his corrective text looks like : "le veau d'or, est toujours vainqueur!!"

[@DIEZAUBERFLOTEMENSCH]

this is a perfect tempo ask any singer

[@Emil-d6q]

He makes a textual error...the second time, it should be "Le veau d'or...est vainqueur des dieux", not "est toujours debout". Still, great performance.

[@ertzike]

@hagst27 je crois que c'est plutos le sourire sarcastioue de mephysto.

[@Jakovian12345]

22 people got tricked by Mephistopheles.

[@ontos9981]

Chaos Cultist Sorry I'm late. You called?

[@hamster13]

...but this song is allso sung well by ghiaurov ofcourse. ramey is allso fantastic in this repertoir.

[@RealJusuf]

listen to George London's version

[@JoshuaMazur]

@rovingdesertfox Hey, you misspelled "AWESOME"

[@DIEZAUBERFLOTEMENSCH]

why did he change the text at the beginning of the second verse? wtf?

[@sidneychannel]

Hello neighbor

[@jean-pierrepriolau1101]

Maintenant , un des meilleurs c’est Andreas Bauer.

[@milandinic1977]

good france diction :)

[@lasaboteuse]

Is this miced???

[@ONeirda]

+lasaboteuse As for the front of the stage I can't say. It might be so, that it's miced, as Pape's voice reverbs greatly in the room. For the audio/video there certainly are mics behind the flowers. The sound engineer definitely did a good job here. Very pleasant mixing.

[@isabelle070209]

Comme beaucoup d'allemand.

[@sospello]

Wonderful performance; only wish it had been staged as Pape is so dramatic.

[@SamiTheVoice]

@hagst27 I think his diction sucks. It is too open. But it IS very difficult for a bass (I'm not talking about baritones, who unfortunately also are singing this role) to sing the top E flats still maintaining the typical closed french vowels...

[@SerbianSoprano]

I love Rene, but as Faust George LOndon and Boris Christoff are unsurpased!

[@Benjaminy2k]

lol, look at his face.

[@ewerykisseslikewine]

Очень слабый верхний регистр голоса, Не хватает массы звука на кульминациях. Это партия не для Rene.

[@JRichVid]

Вы ещё про текст второго куплета скажите.

[@Marina65610]

Это же партия не для контр-баса, совсем необязательно рЫчать.

[@bckm54]

hehee...beautiful voice, but he looks crosseyed... :)

[@AlphachadEpicCollector]

Rene Pape > Jonas Kaufmann

[@operalover3966]

Mediocre singing