here are the opera baritones that I know of which have reached Bb4 or higher:
1. Rodney gilfry hits a solid Bb4 from rossini aria "Una Voce M'Ha Colpito". he also hits a Eb2 in the same aria.
2. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau hits a Bb4 from "drei Masken sah ich am Himmel". dietrich has hit a D2 in "harfenspieler" by carl zelter.
3. Sherrill Milnes hits a Bb4 from verdi aria "Resta Immobile".
4. Joesph Shore hits a solid Bb4 from song "I am the way". he also hits a F#2 earlier in the song.
5. Sherrill Milnes with a short B4 from ending of Rigoletto.
6. Cornell Macneill with a Gilda yell reaching a short C5 and a sustained B4.
7. Joseph Shore with a powerful B4 and A4 from ending of nessun dorma.
8. Thomas Hampson interpolating a short C5 in the largo al factotum aria. Hampson has also hit a D2 in the song "Herr Oluf".
9. Leonard Warren with his incomparable Gilda yell, a sustained C5!
New: Check out joseph shore´s collage of his high notes at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8nUNoQANv8
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November 18th, 2008 at 21:43:36 Rod Gilfry is the best!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 22:06:35 Leonard Warren was amazing.
November 18th, 2008 at 22:29:34 The question is that we humans tend to put stickers to things in order to make our life easier.But Mother Nature doesn't do that so it isn't always easy to tell, say, between a low tenor and a high baritone or a bassbaritone and a high bass. There are bassbaritones that sing Figaro and bassbaritones that sing King Philip.I happen to have heard Orff's «Abbas Cucaniensis» sung by an evident TENOR - and very nicely, too:)
November 18th, 2008 at 22:52:33 Amazing! I didn't realize anyone could be this clueless :)
November 18th, 2008 at 23:15:32 du cirque!!!!
November 18th, 2008 at 23:38:31 Wow. What a useless compilation. They all sound inadequate, Shore (is he Jewish?) and Hampson being the funniest examples. Like dogs imitating a cat. Terrible experience. Most of them are mediocre baritons: What else to expect...?!
November 19th, 2008 at 00:01:30 She has done G#7 live... just so you know.
November 19th, 2008 at 00:24:29 Just goes to show it's about the color of the voice, not the notes you can hit. Joseph Shore is NOT a tenor, but he has no problem with that B.
November 19th, 2008 at 00:47:28 Thanx for posting this! It's very enlightening and educational and the video is well done! Keep up the good work and keep posting.
November 19th, 2008 at 01:10:27 I can barely manage to hit a high B in full voice, but I need so much energy it feels like screaming because I'm really a bass-baritone.
November 19th, 2008 at 01:33:26 He hits those in strong head voice. Too screamy for opera.
November 19th, 2008 at 01:56:25 yea true. but some men's voices like the "male soprano" guy (i forgot his name) can hit those notes. i guess you can say hes "blessed" that his voice didn't deepen. ill tell you one thing, its hard to hit soprano C in full voie and maintain the note. i can hit it in falsetto (obviously) but even then, its hard to maintain it at a somewhat perfect pitch the entire time. although i would perfer to be an alto, im not gonna strain my voice to deepen, thats bad for the vocal cords.
November 19th, 2008 at 02:19:24 Whistle register is what I thought. Whistle register is the equivalent of high falsetto in males because a whistle register comes much more easily to a womans voice than a mans voice. These guys are hitting these notes in full voice. Its a lot harder than falsetto. Plus its not JUST the range, its the power associated. If you see my video I'm as heavy-voiced as these guys but I hit an A#5 and B, but these guys really have that power and tone to their voice, which is what makes it amazing.
November 19th, 2008 at 02:42:23 yea actually i can.
November 19th, 2008 at 03:05:22 Mariah Carey's highest singing note is F7 which without whistle register is impossible!!! There is no wayyy somebody could sing that high without whistle.
November 19th, 2008 at 03:28:21 Its possible
November 19th, 2008 at 03:51:20 u sure? in singing e7 seems wayyyyy to high. can u use you whistle register? if not then its prolly not e7
November 19th, 2008 at 04:14:19 lol, i like seeing baritones hit those notes. they sound funny. i am a soprano and i have an extremely hard time hitting below F3. i think my singing range is F3 or G3, i dont remember, to about E7 or F7. so i got a pretty good range i would say. thats about 4 octaves. =D
November 19th, 2008 at 04:37:18 Hey im having lot of difficulty telling if im a baritone or a tenor. My timber resembles these guys but my range is like a tenor. I cant hit a lot of low notes but I can some of these high notes. Ive posted a video of me singing. Please help me. I really wanna know. Check out my video in my channel if it helps
November 19th, 2008 at 05:00:17 why can't we move around with the cursor? very annoying. the video is missing those intermediary positions, pit-stops... what are they called technically?
November 19th, 2008 at 05:23:16 jowox isnt chris cornell a really big baritone? his notes are much higher than this upto g5
November 19th, 2008 at 05:46:15 Milnes is life-changing.
November 19th, 2008 at 06:09:14 That IS NOT a C... compare it using a Piano or flute.
November 19th, 2008 at 06:32:13 listen to alice in chains man in the box Thats a baritone hitting b5
November 19th, 2008 at 06:55:12 Good point, especially since good resonance in "chest voice" isn't in the chest anyway, it's in the mouth and nasal chambers. :)