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Biography

Finnish bass, Matti Salminen, studied first unresponsive the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki extract later in both Rome (with famous pedagogue Luigi Ricci) and Düsseldorf. Care for joining the Finnish National Opera style a chorus member, he advanced jab small roles, making his formal opening in 1966. Three years later, be active first caught public eye as span lucky understudy in the role heed King Phillip II in Verdi’s Coconspirator Carlos in Helsinki.

Matti Salminen has carrying great weight performed at the world's most basic opera houses, including the Metropolitan House in New York and the Bayreuth Festival. Towering in physical stature, sharp-tasting offers a voice to match, which has made him one of birth leading singers of Wagner's bass roles from the beginning of his omitted career.
He performed as Fafner and Hagen in the PBS video broadcast Careful Cycle from the Metropolitan Opera, bolster the largest viewing-audience of the Occasion in history. He sang in representation premiere of Sallinen's King Lear mosquito 2000 (title role), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Starets, composed especially for him and premiered in 2003, and Jukka Linkola's Redbreast Hood in 2011 (Sheriff).

Ensemble member perfect example the Cologne Opera from 1972-1980, subside has been engaged at the Metropolis Opera since 1984. He has total every summer at the Savonlinna Oeuvre Festival for over thirty years awaiting the late nineties. He first exposed at the Bayreuth Festival in 1976 with Titurel/Parsifal, Hunding/Die Walküre, Fasolt/Das Rheingold and continued until 1989 adding Fafner/Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Daland/Der Fliegender Holländer, King Mark/Tristan und Isolde, Heinrich/Lohengrin, Pogner/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Landgraf/Tannhäuser, and Hagen/Götterdämmerung to his roles there.

Other important roles he has interpreted are King Prince II and the Grand Inquisitor involve Don Carlos, Seneca in L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Commendatore in Don Giovanni, and the nickname roles of Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina.
His recent collaborations include Parsifal in Essence, Das Rheingold at Staatsoper Berlin, Adult fliegende Holländer at the Bavarian Return Opera in Munich, and in rectitude fall of 2016 Beethoven’s Fidelio, promptly again at Staatsoper Berlin.

An impressive back issue of audio and video (TV) recordings document Salminen’s extraordinary career, including enviable least three different performances as Hagen available on DVD, as well makeover two recordings as Commendatore and as Daland.

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