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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1956
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Hurja
- Toisinajattelijoiden Suomi
- Pentti Haanpään tarina
- Yrjö Kallisen elämä ja totuus
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Film & TV
Turku, Finland
Known for
- Aida — Ramfis2015
- Verdi: Don Carlo — Filippo II2013
- Verdi - Don Carlo — Filippo II2013
- Fanatics — Pauli2012
- Wagner: Die Walküre — Hunding2010
- Wagner: Götterdämmerung — Hagen2010
- Wagner: Das Rheingold — Fasolt2009
- The Met - Tristan und Isolde — King Marke2008
- Tristan und Isolde — König Marke2007
- Wagner: Parsifal — Titurel2007
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- 2,308
- Total plays
- 18,528
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Matti Salminen (born 7 July 1945, in Turku) is a Finnish operatic bass singer, who has sung at all of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. Salminen is distinguished by an imposing figure and height; an enormous, sonorous and dark voice; and an expressive face. According to one reviewer, in his prime Salminen was "... simply the largest bass voice in captivity. It is not just its roar in powering over Wagner's maximum orchestra, but the w
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Salminen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Turku
- Occupation
- performing artist
- Educated at
- Sibelius Academy
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Native language
- Finnish
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Matti salminen.jpg
- Work location
- Cologne
- Voice type
- bass
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1945-07-07
- Commons category
- Matti Salminen
- birth name
- Matti Kalervo Salminen
- P12674
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- name in native language
- Matti Salminen
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