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Famous Like Me > Actor > S > Matti Salminen
Profile of Matti Salminen
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Matti Salminen |
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7th July 1945 |
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Turku, Finland |
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Actor |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Matti Salminen (Born July 7, 1945) is a Finnish bass singer. One of the leading basses of our time, Matti Salminen has sung in all of the most important opera houses of the world, including Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. He has a contract at Zurich opera and he also frequently performs in his native country Finland. Most of all he has been admired in such Wagner roles as Gurnemanz (Parsifal), King Marke (Tristan und Isolde) and Hagen (Götterdämmerung). Other important roles are Philip II (Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) and title roles of The Horseman by Aulis Sallinen and Rasputin by Einojuhani Rautavaara.
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