Ivan Rebroff
Bass · Classical · Folk · Musical Theatre · Germany · prominent since 1966
What is Ivan Rebroff’s vocal range?
Ivan Rebroff's vocal range is commonly cited as F1 to F5 — about 4.0 octaves, or 48 semitones, and is usually classified as bass. Full voice is cited up to around F4; everything above that comes from falsetto or head voice.
Billed at four octaves: deep Russian bass below, thin falsetto soprano well above the staff. That cited span is wider than 96% of the 357 voices in this library.
- Signature song
- Kalinka
Reading the numbers
- Only 2 singers here are cited below F1.
- 12 semitones — 25% of the whole span — sit above the cited full-voice ceiling, so much of this range is head voice, falsetto or whistle rather than chest.
- That floor is a full 11 semitones beneath where a bass's range conventionally starts (E2).
- The ceiling clears the conventional bass top of E4 by 13 semitones.
- The span runs 16 semitones past the median voice in this library (32 semitones).
Commonly cited figures, not lab measurements — extreme notes are one-off recorded moments, not the singer’s everyday range.
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Also topping out on F5
18 other voices here reach the same ceiling.