What is bass tenor?

A bass-baritone (or basso cantante)[disambiguation needed] is an intermediate voice type between bass and tenor. There is no precise delineation between the bass-baritone as opposed to the bass, or between the bass-baritone and the baritone, with considerable variation in how the terms are used.

Bass-baritone roles often are older, father figures and villains. Some typical bass-baritone roles are:

* Colline in Puccini's La bohème

* Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni

* Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust

* Figaro in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro

Although the bass-baritone is often thought of as a male voice type, there are also female bass-baritones.

In choral music, the bass-baritone part lies between the bass and baritone parts, and is often notated in the bass clef, an octave higher than the bass part.