I heard him in meistersinger in Berlin a couple of years ago and yes, his voice carries like crazy. I heard every word he sang and we sat way in the back of the hall. I think he is very boring as his technique leaves little room for color, but he absolutely carries.

Interesting! I can imagine it’s hard to find ”lighter” voices that can cut through Wagner’s humongous orchestration, as lighter voices tend to have a weaker middle register. However, Wagner in his time didn’t demand huge voices as his operas where played in Bayreuth, where the afore mentioned humongous orchestra sat under the stage, not in front of.

@@sephrider seems to drop from the ceiling. But its monochrome and does get dull and tiresome

I heard him in Bayreuth in Hans Neuenfels' staging of Lohengrin. The acoustic there helps his voice tremendously. That can NOT be transmitted via any kind of recording, I was really stunned, as were all the other 2000 people in the audience.

Same with his Lohengrin. I thought it was spectacular live.

Perfect diction? What?

+Desmond P T I don't want to hear his boring and expressionless singing in Mozart either! The best advice for him would be to find a new career...

yes, he's not a Helden

More like a Monastatos

Desmond P T exactly it sounds like ottavio but if you dont know the style it can be enjoyable

Don Ottavio is soposed to use chest voice.

@Ab B super Idee

Hihi ...😄

he is too light for the Wiener Sänger Knaben.

+StarRaft Just because he can sing the notes does not make him a Wagner tenor. There is a tradition in opera that can be followed back a hundred years in recordings. Vogt is the very antithesis of a heldontenor. There is not a single tenor in the history of Wagnerian recordings that is that light and insipid. He should be singing Monteverdi. I'm SURE he would have LOTS of fans!

+StarRaft I completely agree. I went to see Walküre with Ian Storey as Siegmund, but he was ill and replaced by Vogt. I was very sceptical to say the least, but Vogt is able to sing over a very large Orchestra. He is definitely not your usual Wagner Tenor but his voice had a strange "dramatic" quality that was quite fascinating. In youtube videos he does not sound very impressive. I recommend very much to go to Opera houses and see people live. The audience was amazed by Vogt and gave standing ovations. He has had tremendous success with these roles.

It isnt about the size of the voice - its the colour and the timbre - he sounds like a eunuch

Probabely he was miced... Like many singers today.

Some warrior. Meh.

Lyric voices? This isn't even a leggiero voice! There is no voice here whatsoever!

Unfortunately, this dude's voice also disappoints me. He is not trained properly.

@Richard Wagner Guck wie traurig und kindisch du bist. Du magst ja einen Geschmack haben, dazu hast du ein Recht. Aber andere haben das auch, und wenn diese Leute Vogts Stimme schön finden, dann ist das so. Er hat vollkommen ein Recht zu singen und wenn es dich so stört. Warum in aller Welt hörst du es dir an? Lass doch die Leute es hören die seine Stimme genießen und du kannst dir andere anhören.

@Richard Wagner Keine Sorge ich begebe mich nicht auf deine Ebene nieder. Es steht fest, Menschen haben verschiedene Geschmäcker. Interessant: es kann also rein logisch keine Helden geben, die eine helle Stimme haben? Ich dachte immer Helden würden von ihren Taten und Werten, die sie vermitteln ausgemacht.

Ich finde es tatsächlich schon lange sehr sehr interessant, dass Klaus Florian Vogt schon lange im Internet ÄUSSERST zwiegespaltene Bewertungen bekommt. Live jedoch, ist er STETS DER Star. Ich habe ihn jetzt schon ziemlich häufig bei den Bayreuther Festspielen erlebt (und auch das ein oder andere Mal woanders) und er wird wirklich IMMER (mit) am meisten bejubelt (ok mittlerweile macht Lise Davidsen etwas Konkurrenz, an seiner Seite und Georg Zeppenfeld wird auch sehr gefeiert, aber dennoch gehört er bei den Bayreuther Festspielen eigentlich mittlerweile zu den sehr wenigen echten Stars - v.a. speziell im Ring). Irgendwas an seiner Stimme muss sich irgendwie verändern oder nicht richtig hervortreten, wenn es aufgenommen wird. Ich persönlich liebe seine Stimme auch sehr (höre ihn aber auch eigentlich immer nur live und komme zum Kommentare lesen auch KZfaq 😂), aber sie ist wirklich UNGLAUBLICH hell und deswegen kann ich sogar ganz gut nachvollziehen warum Leute ihn vielleicht nicht als Helden sehen, obwohl ich tatsächlich noch nie eine Person getroffen habe (als lebende Bayreutherin 😅), die ihn nicht mochte. Aber wahrscheinlich sind das dann vielleicht auch nicht unbedingt DIE Wagnerianer...

Windgassen is also bad, lol.

Yes Brother Palm!!! I hear you Sir!!!!

@@richardmccowenclark2412 Good for you ☝️

De fato...

Can totally see that. Martin Muehle, for example, is a great tenor from Brazil, but he is not nearly as famous as Kaufmann or KFV.

Corelli, Del Monaco, Bastianini.... Good looking people singing dramatic roles. This kfv thing is a grotesque insult to opera!

@@xxsaruman82xx87 Absolutely. Martin Muehle is outstanding and so much better than Vogt.. by far... Its always been unfair. How can all the people going to Bayreuth praise Vogt that much....He does not deserve it. How can such people call themselves Wagnerians if they obviously have no idea about singing and opera...

I don’t know about that… there are quite a few South American and Asian singers who are hired a lot: Florez, Vargas, Villazon, etc…

his voice is miniscule... tiny!!!!! what an insult... you get a person who should be singing in buses with a guitar and a cup for tips.... to sing Wagner!!! no less... at the.... Bayerische Staatsoper??? Should a more suitable name not be The Bayerische Scherzoper?

No. Just a really REALLY high tenor.

@@flannerymonaghan-morris1317 No. Just a really REALLY, REALLY undeveloped tenor.

Light tenor? More like a mosquito.

@@xxsaruman82xx87 I stand corrected. Agree with you, wholeheartedly.

@@vilhelmhammershoi3871 It’s really tragic. Where have the heldentenors gone? Hell, where have the leggiero tenors gone?

@@xxsaruman82xx87 It is so sad. They are out there but for some reason... they want mic'able voices instead of real voices. god forbid you have a big voice. Even the vocal coaches tell them too loud you sing too loud! It's incredible.

@@vilhelmhammershoi3871 They are out there, yes! Have you heard of Saioa Hernandez? She is a fantastic modern spinto soprano! She was a student of Caballe. You are right, pretty much all modern voice teachers say to ‘reign in the voice’ or to ‘hold back’, which is just wrong. Florez even said, in one of masterclasses, ‘if they don’t hear you, it’s their problem’!!! It’s just crazy!

LOL.... so I take it you like kanye west trying to sing bohemian rhapsody as well? this is a joke.

You are not the only one. He sounds magic at stage.

@@Carlos-yl8oc que fumabas? lo has oído en vivo? es una atrocidad!

@@williamadolphe7921 I have heard him in Wien, singing Lohengrin. The voice is white and boyish, but it has enough power to cut the orchestra. He sounds completely different from what one could expect in wagner singing. Different, but very good! His performance in Lohengrin is really beautiful.

@@Carlos-yl8oc dude no it doesn't have any power.... listen... had you had too many schnapps????

Not even fit to sing that. Lol.

@@xxsaruman82xx87 He used to play horn in Hamburg. He should have sticked to that.

Operettenbuffo, nothing else

Das find ich gar nicht. Ihr müsst halt nur eure hörgewohnheiten ändern. Es ist musikalisch, stimmlich (es muss nicht immer riesen vibrato sein!) tadellos!! Ich denke Richard Wagner hätte auch so gedacht, den wie er sagte das die Stimme gleich einem Nachen auf wogender See(Orchester) klingen soll /kann /darf!! Es ist Vogts Interpretation! Hut ab! 👍👍👍

Er wäre wahrscheinlich der perfekte David, oder auch Loge, vielleicht ein Jugendlicher, und naiver Parsifal, aber ein Siegfried, Siegmund, Walther, oder ein Tannhäuser, niemals!

What they need are teachers who can teach singers to support their voices in the big repertoire. They also need to stop expecting dramatic voices to come in bodies that look like movie stars. The torso expands to support the voice. That's why the singers of old had barrel-shaped bodies. They were athletes who used their bodies' power to support the voices. Now the impresarios are casting for looks, not voice.

Correct - today we have to listen to this awful small voices without middle voice ... not enough NEVER EVER !

@@brunnhilde7193 You are so right and it's appalling!

Elise VDB Well, I guess he's pretty, if that's your standard for heldentenors.

Anscheinend genügt das 😪

@@K8Lilly Beim debilen Gesichtsausdruck hört es dann auch schon wieder auf...

Have you ever been in an opera with klaus florian Vogt in it? He doesn't need microphones 😂 not at all

Lisa, give it time. Operatic voices - and demeanour - are getting closer and closer to pop. Also pap. Soon the Met's "Las Vegas Rigoletto" will be reality and we'll have the likes of Michael Buble singing opera. Casting such as this is dumbing down the audience. Soon (maybe already) they'll be accustomed to the distortion and they won't know the difference.

Its been happening since the end of the 60’s. Teaching is awful.

This is a squeezed nasal sound... not Wagnerian by any standard

@@tabithasteinle5232 he is perfoming Lohengrin on the Liceu, I'm on the choir; he does pass the orchestra as you say (the most of the time) but singing Wagner ir not just being able to soud passing the orchestra. He sings all, all, all the time with this falsetish, clear and weak sound and is so, so boring seing a guy singing as a 16 years old girl. His voice has no power, his characters have no strength. A helden tenor is suposed to be a dramathic tenor with baritone scuro, is suposed to be a thounder.

Even that is not suitable for his singing....

I also wonder why lots of "heldentenors" these days are not even close to dramatic tenors.

This is not bel canto at all and that cannot be called 'technique'.

You’re reaching

haha...It is not a belcanto singing. You probably think about belcanto because of his light timber, which tells you do not understand belcanto at all.

Eher einen Operettenbuffo 🙈

@@WolfgangAPalm-ju9er 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He shouldn't be singing opera AT ALL

Lisa Müller Für mich singt er grausam, und Sie können Ihn ja hören soviel Sie wollen.

Lisa Müller Darum hat ein Rudi Schock beim Wolgalied auch schon über 350 Tausend Aufrufe und weniger Negative Bewertung als ihr Vogt, und ein Fritz Wunderlich hat mit der schönen Müllerin weit über 100 Tausend Aufrufe und auch weniger Negative Bewertung als Ihr Vogt. Jetzt wissen wir alle was Sie für eine Ahnung haben. Das diese Sänger nicht mehr leben, machen Sie Ihnen jetzt auch noch zum Vorwurf. Sie sind ein ganz armseliger Mensch. Wirklich erbärmlich !

Sabine Wussow ^

Was wissen Sie denn schon über Rudi Schock, null. Weil er kein Sänger war, wird er heute noch geliebt und verehrt. Rudi Schock sang hier in Berlin, Das Land des LÄCHELNS, und jedes Mal, war es ausverkauft, dass über Monate. Er war der erste Deutsche der nach dem Krieg in England an der Covent Gard singen durfte, dass war eine Auszeichnung nach dem verlorenen Krieg, falls Sie wissen was ich meine. Er erhielt den Kammersänger Titel in Wien, er hatte ein langes Angagement in Australien ,viele Opern in aller Welt. Sang mit Lisa Della Casa, falls Sie wissen wer das ist. Mit Josef Metternich, sowie Gottlob Frick, Erika Köth, Anneliese Rothenberger, Lucia Popp. Nein, Sie wissen null über Rudi Schock. Sollten sich vielleicht doch einmal informieren bevor Sie sich mit mir über Rudi Schock unterhalten. Keine Ahnung ! Sie sind eine Dumm Schwätzerin.

Aha. Schneewittchen

Ruining what voice?

He has one vocal color, and one facial expression: " deer frozen by headlights"!

Ikr. I cant understand how u can hat him that much at all! Its literally ethereal music.

It's also supposed to sound heroic. This guy sounds like a warrior from Battle of the Pastry Chefs.

KFV is the worst tenor in history.

Sorry, but your calm sanity, reason, and non-judgmental taste are evidently and entirely out of place in this thread!

G.V. K. I agree absolutely! Wagner was a great admirer of the bel canto tradition, especially Bellini. Wagner’s music should be about beautiful singing, not who can scream the loudest. But many people have grown up with the recordings where everyone is shrieking, and they think that’s heroic!

@@wotan10950 Ha ha. You think this is bel canto. That's cute. And if you don't think, Melchior, Flagstad, List, etc. sang beautifully, I seriously cannot help you.

und von Atemtechnik hat der auch noch nie etwas gehört.

TORSTEN KERL ist zu EMPFEHLEN ! Eine echte Wagner Tenorstimme und ein Prächtiger Mann

His voice is not fit for opera at all.

It may not be a Wagnerian voice, but having heard it for real in the house, I can say unequivocally that it is a BIG voice. In fact, it's bigger than Konya's, whom I loved and also heard in the house in the same type of role (i.e., Walther, Lohengrin, etc.).

As Wagner, this is nice Schubert.

@@brunnhilde7193 Schubert? No not even Schubert. Listen to Wunderlich's Schubert.

Sadly, yes.

@@xxsaruman82xx87 Jesus 🤭

@@WolfgangAPalm-ju9er Where is Melchior when we need him?

@@xxsaruman82xx87 Vogt once mentioned, that thoses tenors like Melchior, Lorenz, Suthaus, Beirer and so on, could not act and that they had a bad articulation...I mean, this man is just a pain in the ass 😅

@@WolfgangAPalm-ju9er He’s a moron.

Doch , die wissen schon , was sie tun ....deutsches Kulturgut zerstören ...

flicfan416 It's an indication of a tendency to make opera visual rather than aural, and primarily, closer to movies. People are so in need of constant visual stimulation that they're losing the ability to listen. The heldentenor and hochdramatischer fachs came into existence because of the music that Wagner wrote, as did the Wagner tuba, so that must have been his intention.

The fear is that voices like these will crowd out opportunities for heroic-timbre voices in men who are less photogenic than Vogt and audiences will be schooled to a pretty voice. And then an even prettier boy with a lighter voice will come along and be deemed acceptable and after a while, people will forget that voices like Melchior, Vinay and Suthaus ever existed. And David Hasselhoff will be singing Siegfried.

MrFUHGEDDABOUDIT ...from Sieglinde.

It's too light for ANYTHING

Dahaben Sie völlig recht, Buffopartien maximal. Leider goutiert das Publikum urteilsunfähig alles Was ihm vorgesetzt wird und wird das Schlechte zum Standard erhoben.

Im Gegenteil: wer sein "Gesang" durchhält, bekommt Schmerzensgeld.

Besser BACH BACH BACH und AB IN DEN BACH zum GEHIRN WASCHEN und BUSSE TUN : JOJAAAAAAAANAAAAN

you're seriously wishing him dead because you don't care for his singing? that is all kinds of messed up.

@@jasonberger9570 of course not. You saw this ripped out of the context. Someone said: he is far away of this world ore something like this. All I mean (and yes, I do not like his singing as many others, too) . What I mean is that he is not, so we have to deal with this "singing". It is interesting however, in which aggressive way his fans are going after everyone who is not the same opinion.

@@soprana53 Yeah, why doesn't he go sing on the moon or something?

Der Mann ist überhaupt kein Künstler...noch ist er intelligent.

@@oliverkubiak6310 Wenn man Kasse machen kann, während man im völlig falschen Fach singt und das Publikum, dümmer als je zuvor, einem auch noch zujubelt, dann ist man zumindest bauernschlau. 😄

@@Altonahh10 stimme zu ;)

@Ab B wie bitte,wissen Sie überhaupt was fisteln stimmtechnisch bedeutet? Das müssen Sie mir jetzt erklären. Was ist eine fistelstimme.

Aber warum???