Campbell Vertesi

Great job man.  BTW....I figure you might want to know of any top quality heavy basses that are wandering around these days.  I found a youtube video of one I'd never heard of:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkjyGaKew_M

 Huge.  Can't find any trace of him having performed at any big name houses, either.  This guy makes Rene Pape sound like a baritone haha....

IMO I would hardly call Rene Pape a heavy bass, but that Ivashenawhatever is.

I went to all your songs and arias before I made a wrong statement, then I listen to your speaking voice and something give me at that point some hints in the begining and was already compelling by listen to all yours recordings, also I want to let you know that my last intentions are to hurt your feelings or offend you, but one thing is for sure that listen to my uncle more than 20 years, my teachers(Ghiaurov, Tozzi and Ottavio Faria)and personals friends like Furlanetto, Talvela before die....I highly doubt it that you are even close to be a Bass in a regular category (Profondo, Buffo and Cantante)an of course Basso Profondo my friend you are out of that league right in the first attend these critic far from be the envious and false critics that you may find or receive many times in your carreer is to help you to put your voice to sing in the right tesitura with the right repertoir the famous Baritone Cornell Mcneil for sure was able to sung from low G, F, and even D more powerful and sonorous that a lot of self proclamed basses that I had been listen to.....so give your self a try them work out the Bass-Baritone to Baritone repertoir and lets see what is coming around. Best Regards, S.S.

Thanks for your comment. As I've grown in my training, I've found my voice to be capable of much more high tessitura than I imagined - part of why I took the "profundo" off of my page. I am still often referred to as a profundo however, so I leave it in the footer. Personally, I agree that I don't have the low notes to be a real Oktavist profundo... though that may be the result of training, I'm not sure.

But there is no doubt that I'm no baritone. At the highest I will grow into more basso cantante repertoire, though that has more to do with technical facility than vocal range at this point. It's true that if you listen to Ghiaurov, Hines and others, my voice is not as dark as theirs. Remember though, that their recordings are made when they are 35 and older. I am 25 years old, so my voice still has a very youthful color in it.

In any case, we will see what happens as my voice develops. Thank you for listening, and thank you again for your comments!