Unitel and ClassiCa present BRYN TERFEL BAD BOYS ass-baritone Bryn terfel is a towering figure in today’s musical world – both physically and artistically. Whether BRYN Bin the opera house or on the recital stage, he blends his powerful, versatile voice with commanding stage presence. since bass-baritones are usually the “bad boys” in opera, the Welsh TERFEL singer has put together a program that portrays a gallery of rogues and villains, the “demonic misfits and malcontents of this BAD wonderful music” (Bryn terfel). the “big international star with the common touch; a peoples’ BOYS person” (the independent) is accompanied in this program – recorded at Cardiff’s st. David’s Hall in his native Wales – by the sinfonia Cymru under Gareth Jones. terfel needs only a few suggestive props – a knife, a whip – to slip into the role of the Conductor Gareth Jones devil, a trickster, a drug dealer, a murderous barber and other evil Orchestra Sinfonia Cymru characters. among them are two Mephistopheles: an arrogant Chorus London Welsh Chorale French one from Gounod’s “Faust” and a sneering italian version Bass-Baritone Bryn Terfel from Boito’s “Mefistofele”. His interpretations of classics such as iago (“Otello”) and scarpia (“tosca”), for which terfel is Video Director Emyr Afan acclaimed on opera stages around the world, are enough to length 69’ make one’s blood run cold. next to the roles that helped establish his international reputation, Shot in HDTV 1080 terfel also gleefully dips into the 20th-century repertoire of bad Cat. no. A025046300000 guys. He delivers a murderously good turn as the knife-wielding A production of AVANTI sweeney todd from the sondheim opera of the same name, a in association with gripping Javert from “les Misérables”, and a proudly swaggering Universal Music Classical Management & Productions sporting life from “Porgy and Bess”. the program also features and brief and witty introductions to the vocal works by terfel himself. UNITEL CLASSICA Design: luebbeke.com WORLD SALES: C Major Entertainment +49-(0)3030306464 All rights reserved · credits not contractual · Different territories [email protected] Photos: © Mat Hennek/DG, UNITEL.