That's the lowest I've ever heard him go....dang!

@@elisecurran9497 He was capable of singing the F below that( contra F). Russian Basso profondo Vladmir Miller himself gave an account of this. With Kurt's Bb1 being this projected , no doubt he was capable of going lower than this.

@@reubenthomas7907 Miller has only a few notes in the deep He has NOTHING in the height. Hear this embarrassment: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rduHf710x9a5iaM.html

@@reubenthomas7907 EVERY bass who has deep notes ALSO has to have high notes! When he has not, he is not a singer! He can count bottles in a fabric, haha. 2 octaves are the minimum! When Miller not "trained" the high notes, why he sings this Sadko aria and blames the guild of singers?

@@reubenthomas7907 WHY should I be happy? Yes! Vladimir Miller is not a singer! He is a grumbler and a ceaker. When one has no 2 octaves SAFE he is NO singer! Listen young man: I have 2 1/2 octaves. From C to g1 and safe! It is the range of Cesare Siepi. FULL voice! 1967 I sang very young to Gottlob Frick in Munich and was his only student. I moved from Düsseldorf to Munich in 1967. But I knew always, I never can go on stage when 4.000 eyes look at me. Frick asked me always to continue to become his follower. Frick was 61 years old in 1967. And to be an operasinger is not a dream job. Not at a province theatre and not as a world star, living on airports in planes and in strange hotels in strange cities. So I have a much more better life not to be a singer.

Kurt Moll, whom I know best since his early days in Wuppertal in the 60th of the last century, before he went to Hamburg, did a lot of buffo-operas.

His Osmin and Ochs at the Met were wonderful performances. He also sang Bartolo in Nozze di Figaro there as well.

what did he said?

@@wermachbanks4599 thank you for your support, dear colleague

@@anton503 thanks!

that's actually how it's written in the notes, probably for comedic effect. The bass is supposed to open his mouth wide

That ''joke'' is part of the score; if u listen to other recordings u'll see it's part of the score

Vous êtes un mélophobe?

@@yea2080 Thanks for pointing it out! I did not see any related comment in the score and never heard it performed like this before. That said, I still prefer the "clean" version.

I'm not sure this is intended. Im quite sure he didn't mean to do this. In any case, in the music sheets I have, it is not written like this

Gottlob Frick and Leo Schützendorf also did that joke.