"Some Enchanted Evening"

Paulo Szot & Rodney Clarke

We thought that it would be fun to compare some versions of "Some Enchanted Evening" from the 1949 hit musical "South Pacific." Two baritones have scored huge successes as Emile de Becque almost 60 years apart, Ezio Pinza and Paulo Szot. We've mixed in emerging barihunk Rodney Clarke and the great Cesare Siepi for comparison purposes. We've also added the hit recording my Perry Como, a version by the legendary Frank Sinatra and a jazzed up version from Ray Charles.

Ezio Pinza, who made this famous with the original 1949 Broadway cast recording:



Paulo Szot, who became a mega-star barihunk with South Pacific:



Cesare Siepi, who shows he could have scored a it with this on Broadway, too:



Ray Charles, jazzing it up for TV:



Frank Sinatra in a classic version from 1949:



Rodney Clarke, one of our emerging barihunks: Perry Como, who had a hit with this in 1949:



Giorgio Tozzi, who recorded his in 1958:


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Rodney Clarke Adds a New Mozart Role

Rodney Clarke as the Pasha in Rome

British barihunk Rodney Clarke has added a new Mozart role to his repertory. He has added the Pasha Selim in Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Rome, where it hasn't been seen in forty years. He already performs both the Count and Figaro in the Marriage of Figaro, the title role in Don Giovanni, Papageno in Die Zauberflote and Guglielmo in Cosi. This summer he returns to Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte at the Longborough Festival in The Cotswalds. 

Rodney Clarke as the Pasha in Rome

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British Barihunk Rodney Clark as Billy Budd

British Barihunk Rodney Clarke

In a previous post we inadvertently stated that Rodney Clarke was Jamaican. He was actually born in London to Jamaican parents. We figured that setting the record straight was a great excuse to post this video of him performing Billy Budd's "Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray" with the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. 

Clarke will be performing the role of Guglielmo Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte at the Longborough Festival. He will then head to Valladolid, Spain to portray the Grand Pretre in Saint Saens’ Samson et Dalilahwith the Opera Proyect. In April, he heads to the warmer climes of Italy where he will portray Pasha Selim in Mozart’s Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, directed by Graham Vick

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Introducing Rodney Clarke

Rodney Clarke

Rodney Clarke becomes our first Jamaican-born baritone on the site. He came to us at the recommendation of one of his soprano colleagues in London.

Clarke studied at the Royal Academy of Music during which time he was awarded the Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award in 2001 and the Peter Moores Scholarship award.

He has performed at Don Giovanni at the Birmingham Opera, Britten at the BBC Proms, roles at the Welsh National Opera and Threestone Opera, as well as appearing as the Second Officer in Kenneth Branagh's film version of The Magic Flute.

Here he is performing "Lonely Town" from Bernstein's On the Town:



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