EditorialThe solo bass-baritone Davóne Tines sings in front of an enlarged reproduction of a painting by Julie Mehretu, with the flex dancer Jeremy “Opt” Perez laying on the gangway below, in Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Sept. 26, 2022. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialUkrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi, a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s young artists program, was featured in a performance of Ukraine’s national anthem, in New York, Monday, March 14, 2022. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)
EditorialVladyslav Buialskyi, a Ukrainian bass-baritone singer, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Feb. 9, 2022. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialTyshawn Sorey leads the Houston Chamber Choir, the keyboardist Sarah Rothenberg, the violist Kim Kashkashian, the bass-baritone Davóne Tines and the percussionist Steven Schick in his new work “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)” at the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Feb. 19, 2022. (Michael Starghill Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialBass baritone singer Chaix in the role of the Marquis in Auber's La Barcarolle, Opera Comique, 1845. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1845.
EditorialBass-baritone Edouard Gassier in the role of the Comte in Auber's La Barcarolle, Opera Comique, 1845. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres de Paris, Paris, 1...
EditorialThe soprano Angel Blue, left, as Bess and the bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Crown in “Porgy and Bess,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Oct. 28, 2021. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)
EditorialRyan Speedo Green, a bass baritone with an international opera career, performs with the music director Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony at the Rady Shell, a sleek new outdoor venue at Jacobs Park on the San Diego waterfront, Aug. 6, 2021. (John Francis Peters/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Donald Palumbo, the Metropolitan Opera’s chorus master; the baritone Justin Austin; the tenor Stephen Costello; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company’s music director; the soprano Angel Blue; and the bass-baritone Eric Owens, after a concert at the Knockdown Center in Queens, May 16, 2021. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)