OPERATIC MAD SCENES FOR MEN
Scene di pazzia per uomini * Scènes de folie pour les hommes
Chaliapin as the mad miller in Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka
MALE ALTO
Composer: Handel
Opera: Orlando
Character: Orlando
Scene: Act III
Composer: Vivaldi
Opera: Orlando Furioso
Character: Orlando
Scene: Act II Scene 8
TENOR
Composer: Auber
Opera: Masaniello
Character: Masaniello
Scene: Acts IV and V
Composer: Blitzstein
Opera: Sacco and Vanzetti
Character: Sacco
Scene: unknown
Composer: Britten
Opera: Curlew River
Character: Madwoman
Scene: throughout
Composer: Britten
Opera: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Character: Flute
Scene: Act III (Pyramus and Thisbe)
Composer: Britten
Opera: Peter Grimes
Character: Peter Grimes
Scene: Act III
Composer: Cavalli
Opera: Egisto
Character: Egisto
Scene: Act III
Composer: Donizetti
Opera: Maria Padilla
Character: Don Ruiz
Scene: Act III
Composer: Handel
Opera: Rodelinda
Character: Grimoaldo
Scene: Act III
Composer: Korngold
Opera: Die tote Stadt
Character: Paul
Scene: Acts I, II, III
Composer: Longden
Musical: Moby Dick, the Musical
Character: Captain Ahab
Scene: Act II
Composer: Maxwell Davies
Opera: The Lighthouse
Character: Sandy
Scene: Scene 2
Composer: Meale
Opera: Voss
Character: Frank le Mesurier
Scene: Act II
Composer: Mozart
Opera: La finta giardiniera
Character: Belfiore
Scene: Act II Sc 16
Composer: Porsile
Opera: Spartaco
Character: Spartaco
Scene: unknown
Composer: Rimsky-Korsakov
Opera: Skazanie o nevidimom grade Kitezhe (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
Character: Grishka Kuterma
Scene: Act IV Sc 1
Composer: Sharman
Opera: Elsewhereless
Character: Ambassador
Scene: unknown
Composer: Stravinsky
Opera: The Rake's Progress
Character: Tom Rakewell
Scene: from Act III Sc 2 to end of Act III Sc 3
Composer: Tchaikovsky
Opera: Pikovaya Dama (Pique Dame, or Queen of Spades)
Character: Ghermann (Herman)
Scene: throughout
Composer: Verdi
Opera: I Due Foscari
Character: Jacopo
Scene: Act II
Composer: Wagner
Opera: Die Feen
Character: Arindal
Scene: Act III Sc 1
Composer: Wagner
Opera: Tristan und Isolde
Character: Tristan
Scene: Act III Sc 1
BARITONE
Composer: Berg
Opera: Wozzeck
Character: Wozzeck
Scene: Act I Sc 2, Act I Sc 3, Act I Sc 4, Act II Sc 4
Composer: Bernstein
Opera: Mass
Character: Celebrant
Scene: Suicide scene ("Things get broken")
Composer: Dallapiccola
Opera: Il Prigionero
Character: the prisoner
Scene: Scene 4
Composer: Donizetti
Opera: Il Furioso al Isola de San Domingo
Character: Il Furioso (with his wife)
Scene:
Composer: Donizetti
Opera: Torquato Tasso
Character: Torquato Tasso (presumed mad)
Scene: Act I
Composer: Giordano
Opera: La Cena delle Beffe
Character: Neri Chiaramantesi (feigned madness)
Scene: Act III
Composer: Gluck
Opera: Iphigénie en Tauride
Character: Oreste
Scene: beginning of Act II
Composer: Maxwell Davies
Opera: The Lighthouse
Character: Blazes
Scene: Scene 2
Composer: Reimann
Opera: Lear
Character: King Lear
Scene: Act II Sc 6
Composer: Verdi
Opera: Macbeth
Character: Macbeth (with Lady Macbeth)
Scene: Act I Sc 2 ("Fatal mia donna!")
Composer: Verdi
Opera: I Masnadieri
Character: Francesco
Scene: Act III Sc 4, Act IV
Composer: Verdi
Opera: Nabucco
Character: Nabucco
Scene: Act III Sc 4
Composer: Waits and Wilson
Rock Opera: The Black Rider
Character: Wilhelm
Scene: Scene 11 ("Lucky Day")
BASS
Composer: M.-A. Charpentier
Opera: Medée
Character: Creon
Scene: unknown
Composer: M.-A. Charpentier
Opera: David et Jonathas
Character: King Saul
Scene: Act III
Composer: Dargomizhsky
Opera: Rusalka
Character: Miller
Scene: Act IV
Composer: Donizetti
Opera: L'Esule di Roma
Character: Murena
Scene: Act II
Composer: Donizetti
Opera: Il Paria
Character: Zarete
Scene: Act II
Composer: Hokosawa
Opera: Vision of Lear
Character: King Lear
Scene: unknown
Composer: Massenet
Opera: Don Quichotte
Character: Don Quichotte
Scene: Act II (windmill scene)
Composer: Maxwell Davies
Opera: The Lighthouse
Character: Arthur
Scene: Scene 2
Composer: Mussorgsky
Opera: Boris Godunov
Character: Boris (bass-baritone)
Scene: Act II, Act IV Sc 2
Composer: Rossini
Opera: Semiramide
Character: Assur
Scene: Act II Sc 8-9 ("Il dì già cade...Que' Numi furenti")
Composer: Schubert
Opera: Lazarus, oder die Feier der Auferstehung (Lazarus, or the Celebration of the Resurrection), D.689
Character: Simon the Sadducee
Scene: unknown
FACH UNKNOWN
Composer: Panula
Opera: Lalli ja Pyhä Henrikki (Lalli and St. Henry)
Character: Lalli
Scene: Act II
NON-THEATRICAL MAD SCENES