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| The Rake's Progress |
| Baba is a Dramatic mezzo role. / She is a bearded lady. Sellem is a Comic tennor role. He is an auctioneer. |
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| 1970 |
| Baba the Turk |
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| Kerstin Meyer |
| 1982 |
| 1988 |
| 1999-2000 |
| 2007-2008 |
| Sylvia Anderson |
| Mignon Dunn |
| Victoria Vergara |
| Brian Asawa |
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| Baba the Turk/ Sellem |
| Aria Database for Baba the Turk |
| SFO History for Baba/ Sellem |
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| The role of Baba is written for a mezzo-soprano, but it was sung in this case by countertenor Brian Asawa, who brought plenty of vigor and temperament to the role. Asawa also sang Baba in a fairly silly version made for Swedish television, that time playing the role as a drag queen. No gender stuff this time, though -- Baba is now unmistakably a woman, and Asawa's performance was both fiery and shapely .. and there were splendid company debuts.. tenor David Cangelosi as the auctioneer Sellem./ Review |
| Sellem |
| Howard Fried |
| Howard Fried |
| Jonathan Green |
| David Cangelosi |
| Aria Database for Sellem |
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| Jonathan Green |
| 1999-2000 |
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| Denyce Graves |
| Denyce Graves stole the show as Baba the Turk. ... Denyce Graves manages to be the bearded woman who looks good in a bathing suit, quite a trick to pull. She sings nasally, with a don't-mess-with-me attitude, faking a mean, bitter spinster voice, for lack of a better way to describe her tone. She totally deadpans her role, and she's hilarious./ Review |
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| Sylvia Anderson |