BRYN TERFEL Bad Boys

 

1. Mefistofele - Boïto: Mefistofele "Sono lo Spirito che nega"
2. Scarpia - Puccini: Tosca “Tre sbirri, una carrozza”
3. Dulcamara - Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore "Udite, udite, o rustici"
4. Jago - Verdi: Otello "Vanne … Credo in un Dio crudel"
5. Kaspar - Weber: Der Freischütz "Schweig, schweig, damit dich niemand warnt"
6. Sporting Life - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess “It ain't necessarily so”
7. Mackie Messer - Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer“
8. Sweeney Todd - Sondheim: “Epiphany”
9. Roderic – Sullivan: Ruddigore “When the night wind howls”
10. Javert - Schönberg: Les Miserables “Stars”
11. Barnaba - Ponchielli: La Gioconda “O monumento”
12. Don Basilio - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia "La calunnia è un venticello"
13. Pizzaro - Beethoven: Fidelio "Ha! Welch ein Augenblick!"
14. Méphistophélès - Gounod: Faust "Le veau d'or est toujours debout"
15. Il Commendatore, Don Giovanni, Leporello - Mozart: Don Giovanni "Don Giovanni, a cenar teco m'invitasti

 

Bryn Terfel, a gentle man in real life, recruits a gang of “bad boy” characters from opera and musicals to serenade us with tunes from the sinister side of the bass clef. Thoroughly convincing as villains you would not want to meet alone in the dark, Bryn Terfel wields a full, wide ranging bass-baritone ever in service to dramatic instincts rare in any era Bad Boys delivers an original concept sure to seduce the media, wow the classical crowd and exert powerful mass appeal. No singer morphs from Don Giovanni to Mack the Knife to Sweeney Todd with Terfel’s devilish ease – Bad Boys is a delightful box of mixed (dark) musical bonbons

 

Bryn sings with Anne Sofie von Otter, Balcarras Crafoord the Swedish Radio Choir, accompanied by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and with Paul Daniel.

 

Deutsche Grammophon 4778091