Klaus Florian Vogt, who played horn in the Hamburg opera house before he transitioned to Heldentenor, compares the two vocations with colleagues from the Met’s horn section:
Listern and compare.
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Great to see and hear this!
Massively cool. I had no idea he was a horn player. Still some chops, apparently.
Absolutely made my day
A very excellent performance of one of the truly great horn moments. And any horn player will tell you the same- Meistersinger is an absolute killer.
LOL: all of us horn players know that it isn’t easy and he did a great job with the Call. 🙂 And he’s a great tenor too!
Would rather he would have stuck with the horn, so that we might be spared his castrated, flat, and colourless ‘singing’.
Fritz Wunderlich was also a horn player. If you can play the horn, you can do anything!
Not anything, no. Nobody can sing like Fritz Wunderlich.
That’s the best Scott Brubaker ever sounded! Bravo!
Fritz Wunderlich was also a horn player as well as a tenor.
Has any tenor ever in history attempted to sing Siegfried and play the horn in the dragon scene?
Many have championed the anvil.
Better horn player than heldentenor, in the fifties and sixties he ‘might have been good enough for Ruiz with that bizarre choir boy sound. The Ian bostridge of “ heldentenors” , poor Melchior, Lorenz etc
Although his voice isn’t ideal for the role of Siegfried, one day, he should consider blowing the horn infront of Fafner’s cave.
Wolfgang Windgassen was also a horn player! 🙂