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

[paulostroff99]

Superb.TY for posting.

[paulostroff99]

Awesome! TY Gabba02 for posting

[me148]

wow

[pepkepletke]

well, his Russian pronunciation is quite weak, but the voice is SO good that it doesn´t matter...great :)

[thr2010]

Truly, Matti Salminen it awe inspiring!

[Emlomor]

transposed ?

[NormanicusDiabolicus]

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

[Musicuss]

Straordinario

[srr10]

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

[kedonsiemen]

wow, I had a totally different view to Matti Salminen before, and as a finn thought Talvela is way superior to him, but damn this is great performance.

[oegaziz43]

Matti "saved" amd shined in Levin's Met Gotterdamerung video, I think

[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.

[HomoAlba]

They explore the mind and soul. That's what makes them so good. Russian novelists are the same way.

[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!

[wartburg88]

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

[bassovoice]

Yep. Matti is one of the biggest guys on the market. I think 195 cm and 130 kg...

[malmangelucci]

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

[murksov]

Conductors are often small, malmangelucci, that's why they became conductors, hehe...

Anyway, great opera and a great singer! And he's still "on the road". How old is he now? Seventy?

[abbeast22]

mmmmmm....ear candy....