{"id":692,"date":"2013-11-24T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T18:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renepape.wpengine.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2017-03-16T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T18:45:27","slug":"the-ace-of-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/2013\/11\/24\/the-ace-of-bass\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ace of Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_693\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"size-full wp-image-693\" src=\"http:\/\/renepape.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/RP_SundayTimes_2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devil may care: Ren\u00e9 Pape as Mephistopheles in Faust (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>As Ren\u00e9 Pape gets set to wow us with his Gurnemanz, he reveals how he really feels about Wagner<\/h3>\n<p>It is the lot of operatic basses that, with few exceptions \u2014Mussorgsky\u2019s Boris Godunov being the obvious example \u2014 they tend to take a back seat to star tenors and sopranos. Ren\u00e9 Pape\u2019s Gurnemanz may have been the outstanding performance in the Met\u2019s new production of Wagner\u2019s Parsifal, beamed live in HD to cinemas worldwide, but you can bet it was Jonas Kaufmann\u2019s appearance in the title role that put millions of bums on seats.<\/p>\n<p>The German bass, who will be 50 next year, has been at the top of his profession, the finest representative of his voice type, for the best part of 25 of those years. In 1991, the late Georg Solti chose him for the Mozart bicentenary-year production of The Magic Flute at the Salzburg Festival \u2014 the youngest singer to have played Sarastro there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/culture\/music\/classical\/article1342526.ece\" target=\"_blank\">READ FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ren\u00e9 Pape gets set to wow us with his Gurnemanz, he reveals how he really feels about Wagner It is the lot of operatic basses that, with few exceptions \u2014Mussorgsky\u2019s Boris Godunov being the obvious example \u2014 they tend to take a back seat to star tenors and sopranos. Ren\u00e9 Pape\u2019s Gurnemanz may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-press"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renepape.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}