by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
I intend to approach this topic. By now, I'll go through the arias in what I call the 'definite' collection: this Genoa-based CD recordings (6 of them) of tenor arias. Since I'm SO familiar with it, I'll start from last to first not to bore me so.
I'll try to recall DVD productions I have by different companies of these operas, and reflect on APPLAUSE as the tenor aria ENDS:
"Testa adorata" (Leoncavallo, Boheme -- Marcello's tenor aria). Unfortunately, while I am aware that some 'pirate' or informal recording of a performance of this on DVD MUST be available, I never saw it. I wouldn't think applause is much merited here. It's TOO dramatic, and I'm for one, I'm too moved to even TRY. The last line goes exactly like the end of "Ridi pagliaccio":
"la stanza e morta"
"E il vedovo mio cor
piange nel dtedio quei perduti di".
----- The slancio lies elsewhere, and this is like a more minor-key coda, so if there is a strong applause, it is for recollecting the big 'slancio' bit where the tenor pours his 'heart', as they put it, "Bianchi manine", perhaps.
"Apri la tua finestra" -- Mascagni, Iris. Compared to "Quel vino e generoso", this is quite a bore, and I would NOT be disappointed if the tenor aria does not get too much of an applause. I think applause goes best when it's really a full orchestral boom-boom, rather than this harp arrangement. It's a Chinese thing. The last lines go: "al paese eterno ti trarro ove, o fanciulla, tu serai amata". Too future in tense to merit much of an overwhelming applause. Again, I lack a DVD recording of this.
"Giunto sul passo estremo". I was told on this list this was created by Campanini. It's from Boito, Mefistofele. The last 'stanza', for the thing is rather boringly structured in quatrains goes: "gia nell'idea gregusto l'alta ineffabil ora" -- I think there are some 'flourishings' to that final line, which is a way to 'invite' applause. When all is said and done -- why KEEP reapeating a line unless you want to make a point TO THE AUDIENCE? I do have the DVD with Ramey as Mefistofele for this, but can't say I recall much about the tenor performance. The fact that I was so more familiar with the OTHER, more cheerful aria, 'of prairies and mountains', I cannot say much about THIS 'Giunto sul passo estremo', which seems to invite for COMPASSION rather than extravagant 'Bravo!' applause.
"Spirto gentil". I do have KRAUS's DVD for this (Donizetti, La Favorita), and a good thing about Kraus-Trujillo is that he never cared for applause. If he did, his face did not show it! I am so vague about this aria. I never learned who first sang it in Italian and WHY -- that the character does not move me much. The last line goes: "segnasti il core d'onda mortal -- ahime ahime", etc. And then that would be good, but this is a ternary thing -- so it's back to 'larve d'amor' -- a TRICK. It's easy to ask for APPLAUSE in a ternary aria, where the audience is FAMILAR (to death sometimes) with a melody. It's much difficult to elicit applause in an irregular aria -- like my favourites, e.g. "L'anima ho stanca" in Cilea's Lecouvreur. I see Caruso recorded this, and this triggers a question in me: why is it that when it comes to CDs people prefer 'studio' recordings (I think -- I DO), while when it comes to DVD productions it's always LIVE recordings that count? Answer: the applause.
"O Paradiso" -- Meyerbeer. Osborne has a whole book on THIS! "O nuovo mondo tu m'appartieni" is the last line. This is supposed to be grand. Alas, I don't think there is a DVD 'legal' production of this. I only have ONE DVD by Meyerbeer and it's NOT this (It's the rather more boring "Crusade" thing).
"La rivedro nell'estasi" -- Ballo -- to skip because it's too complex. Last line: "ma la mia stella e questa che il ciel non ha"
"La vita e inferno al infelice" (Forza, Verdi). Role created by Tamerlik. Last line SO TRAGIC and the hero is virile enough to stand a good round of applause -- he's not dying of old age, as Fausto in Mefistofele is, say --. Last line: "Leonora mia, soccorrimi, pieta del mio penar, pieta di me". This is good. I like the fact that the ending is sort of 'illiterate'. It is one thing to ask for 'piety for my suffering'. Another one to ask for 'piety of myself altogether'. So I like that. It's a way the composer has of letting us think that the lyrics are spontaneous enough as coming from this "Incan" prince -- or something. APPLAUSE much merited. Plus, this is the ONLY bit of hightlight in an otherwise rather boring opera, so what else can you have to 'lighten up' the occasion?
"Da voi lontan in sconosciuta terra" I have Bocelli's Met live performance for this. Just kidding. This is Wagner. I don't think Wagnerian audiences enjoy applauding much. They say 'applause' is a Southern European (Italian, even Provencal) thing, rather than "Gothic'. Verdi referred to the Goths as a very cold people, and was annoyed when people said that "Aida" was Gothic in conception. The last line is: "un angiol la porto sull'ali d'or" -- this is stanzaic, since 'ali d'or' rhymes with reliquia del signor'. So it's not precisely SPONTANEOUS. Mind: some cris de coeur ARE spontaneous, or rather, are rhymic, but one forgets: I die "in dispair" (disperato) in "Tosca" (E lucevan le stelle) IS The last bit of the aria, even if it's 'tanto la VITA -- tanto la vita', as a code, is the bit that connects back to the rhyme of "l'ora e fuggita' -- but audiences are so wild and the thing is so heavenly that one forgets the man is just reciting a little verse.
"Non piangere, Liu" (Turandot). The last line is good in that Puccini managed to rhyme "Liu" (a non-Italian name) with "che non sorride piu". It is ODD to end an aria with a "u" sound, so if applause follows galore, it is welcomed. I prefer this aria to the worn out, "Nessun dorma". It's much more melodious, and the rhythm is magic.
"Salve, dimora, casta e pura". This has an extravagant ending -- it invites applause even as a drawing-room piece! It's of course ternary, so it shouldn't count. The tenor goes back to the first bit ("Salve, dimora casta e pura") to end his piece with. But still, it shows what a craftsman Gounod was. He KNEW. Odd this is the only opera ("Fausto") that we are treated with regularly.
"Di' tu se fedele" Verdi -- Ballo. VERY complicated. Let alone to analyse applause at the end. "nell'anime nostre non entra terror".
"La donna e mobile" While Verdi has the good sense of having TWO stanzas here ("E sempre misero chi a lei sfida"), it comes back to the first line for the ending -- spoiling it all, in a way. "e di pensier" -- "e di pensier". This must be the most applauded bit in all opera, so I would love for Verdi to have gone here, as he does in "Celeste Aida" with "p pp dim ppp morendo". That would be the day! Oddly Il Cairo opera theatre opened with "Rigoletto" -- so was "Aida" really necessary? (Just kidding). The role was created by TERATE.
"Questa o quella" Rigoletto. Ends with "se mi punge una qualche belta". Difficult. Hardly to elicit as much applause as "Donna e mobile" -- for good or bad.
"Mi par l'udire ancora" Pescatori di Perle (Bizet). Too lyrical -- and Bizet himself did not look like the man that encouraged a lot of applause. Looks Gallicly cold. The last line: "la veggio d'ogni velo prenderli per le ser", but it comes back to the 'refrain' at the end, I think, so it doesn't count. Strictly.
"Un di all'azurro spazio". I'm somewhat saddened that the OTHER aria in Giordano "Chenier" was not included. But this is GRANDIOSE. Too grandiose to my taste, in fact. Last line: "invian chiedeva pane e invano stendea la mano". The fact that it is not addressed to the love of the prima donna -- makes 'applause' an easier thing. This is a PUBLIC manifestation of stuff, and the applause is thus the public paying 'tit' for 'tat'.
"Ah, la paterna mano" (McDuff in Verdi's Macbeth). Ends with a rhyme: "rossa c olui la braccia del tuo perdono aprir" with 'aprir' rhyming with 'respir'. The slancio or the most dramatic bit (which I love) is in "coll'ultimo singulto, coll'ultimo respir", but it becomes so repetitive at the end, plus those unorchestrated exposed cris de coeurs that if it does not get an applause one just as well shoot oneself. It was created by Brunacci in 1847 -- complete in kilt, which helped.
"Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano". I would NOT be surprised if Caruso was most CLAPPED for this geniality! Oddly, apparently he never recorded it? I have the MET DVD of it.
"Dalla sua pace la mia dipende" (Mozart, Ottavio, in Don Giovanni). Apparently, it's the OTHER aria (mio tesoro) that gets the louder applause. He starts and ends up in an empty stage for this. The fact that not everybody empahtises with the character (a non-actor, really) does not help. It tends to be clapped, I expect, for virtuosismo. It's one of those 'di capo' things that get a bit repetitive at the end (cfr. "Un'aura amorosa" in Cosi fan tutte") -- "e non ho bene s'ella non l'ha". How many TIMES does he say that? before he gets the applause? I never learned what Da Ponte (a practical man) thought of Mozart's settings of his simpler verse in such exercises of virtuosismo. Plus, at Salzburg, people never clap much, so."
"Quando le sere al placido" (Miller, Verdi). The only masterpiece in a rather dry score, and a TYPICAL aria, which should GET as much applause as it can. "Ah, mi tradia" is the last line, overepeated, but then it is a simple (short) sentence and not so boring to hear repeated again and again. Plus, it's the typical aria where the applause is to empathise for the tenor who has been totally wronged by the prima donna. So the applause is DOUBLY justified. How many like to applaud to a silly happy ending arietta, instead?
"Quanto e bella, quanto e cara" -- Nemorino's OTHER aria in "Elisire". This is a typical Donizetti ending -- "io non so che suspirar" he repeats 4 times, and without orchestra, typical, too. Surely Nemorino gets his good round of applause. Oddly, I applaud in recollecting the bits in the aria which are NICER than the very last bit which I don't find particularly applause-provoking. What an art, to compose an aria which is sublime in bits, and yet is NOT really spoiled by a 'closure' which is TOO conventional and artsy and virtuosistic like this one.
"Vesti la giubba". This must be the MOST applauded aria (Yes, I said that of "La donna e mobile", but I contain multitudes). "Ridi del duol che t'avvelenna il cor". I actually Have TWO instrumental recordings of this (and a piano reduction, which I love even better). In ONE instrumental tracking (I mean with no voice), the orchestra continues for like 2 minutes after the vocal line -- and I LOVE that. It's SO NECESSARY, after such an outpour. The result, though: applause is a TRICK here. I have Alagna DVD and as he notes, he must LEAVE the stage as the 'aria' ends (the orchestral strains rather) as he sobs and stuff. So, it's not as 'simplistic' as "e di pensier!" in "Donna e mobile".
"Recondita armonia" (Tosca). "Tosca, sei tu!" -- my favourite aria to applaud. It's unsubtle enough -- in that you KNOW when it has 'ended'. What bothers me slightly here is the fact that the tenor is sharing the stage with his 'friend'. If his friend were mute that would be ok -- but he manages to bring in the odd line. But my 'bravo' is directed to the one on the right (the tenor), not the one on the left.
"Amor ti vieta" (Fedora, Giordano). I have Domingo DVD and he DOES get an overwhelming round. It is a subtle thing. And this was created by Caruso, when his voice was still defined as "feminine" by the La Scala critics (in comparing it when he returned in full glory to the theatre some two decades later). "Se il labbro dice, non t'amero". What annoys me slightly about the last line is that it's in QUOTES. But quotes don't 'sing' easily. So I'm sure MY FRIEND will think it's Caruso who says "I won't" (love you). Very tricky. What I like about this is that it's high-class verismo. I mean, the style, musical, is verista at heart. A disperate cri de coeur that one associates with 'working life' of the verista repertoire. But this is a noble Russian in a ball -- which IS a ball.
"Ella mi fu rapita" (Rigoletto). THE only aria in Rigoletto. In the sense that the tenor FEELS it like character. The other pieces are more for the 'public display' (La donna e mobile, Questa o quella). The last line: "ei che le sfere agli angeli per te non invidio". Very sincere. Should get the loudest applause, but it doesn't.
"Di quella pira" (Trovatore). "O teco almeno corro a morir" but it gets complicated. A classic example to study given he variants that tenors like to bring to this. Role created by Baucarde, who was not everybody's cup of tea (There is an online review by an Englishwoman who saw him in London and detested him!).
"Mamma, quel vino e generoso". Should get the biggest loudest applause. MEANT for it. Mascagni at his "search for applause" best. Created by a non-star, really (i.e. not someone who LOOKS like he cared much for applause). STAGNO, in Rome, 1890.
"Che gelida manina" -- This ends with some sort of anti-climax: "deh, parlate", etc. Which contain the best harmonies, I find. Those 'progressions' that Puccini was so in favour of (cfr. "Madama Butterfly", Love duet, and others). Plus, everybody KNOWS that Mimi will JUST have a big part herself, so what's the good of DELAYING her aria by Too-Long-an-applause? I would love to see what this PhD on Puccini and applause says about this -- we were discussing changes in "Tosca".
"M'appari tutt'amor" (Flotow, Martha). I identify this with the Brits (Mario in the Covent Garden) so I'm not expecting an of applause. Caruso found, two years before he died -- that he still could sing it. I loved that. (I read about it in Caruso, "a life in words and music"). The ending is repetitive: " di dolor morro" -- si, ah, oh, si, morro, morro morro. If you don't get applause after such a rather low trick! What is a bit annoying is that Martha did not really BETRAY the tenor -- she just, literally, disappeared. I suppose that as far as German arias go -- in Italian -- this is a pretty dramatic one. But cannot really compare with the so many other masterpieces we have, I would think. I never learned what Italian was identified qua tenor with this aria and what was the Italian theatre where it was MORE popular. It seems like a piece IN ITALIAN by non-Italians and to be sung 'overseas' or 'outside' Italy (which is nothing bad -- but something one may reflect upon).
"Dio. Mi potevi scagliar tutti i mali" (Otello, Verdi --, libretto my Boito). Such a masterpiece.I would be too moved to applaud. Plus, it's not very musical, and I love to applaud a tenor trying to keep a tone, rather than 'parlando' as this one does. Tamagno, nobody could sing it like him (and he did look the part, too, as they say --). I have Domingo DVD Zeffirelli -- and it's a good thing it's a STUDIO thing (a film), since too much of an applause would turn this thing into a 4-hour long thing.
"E lucevan le stelle". "e non ho amato mai tanto la vita -- (rhyming with "l'ora e fuggita"), with a repeat. Possibly one of the best finals for an aria ever. I love the fact that, when I sing it with the orchstral backings I have for this, one can really make a parallel with "ed orezzava la terra" and the rest of it). So, we have here that what looks like spontaneous, is very well thought out.
CORRESPONDING to
entrava ella fragrante ------ "e non ho amato mai tanto la vita"
mi cadea su la braccia --- "tanto la vita". Genius!
"Donna non vidi mai" (Puccini, Manon Lescaut). Deh non cessare, deh non cessare, deh non cessare. A bit repetitive for my taste, but very sophisticated. While NOT like "Celeste Aida", this is a bit of a cavatina, too, and one DOUBTS of a love-at-first-sight like this. As it transpires, De Grieux is in love with his own idea of love. Not credible. But it should merit a good applause.
"La fior che avevi a me tu gitato" (Carmen, Bizet). In my DVD, Vickers is so ONTO the thing that he couldn't care less (literally) if people applaud or not. Plus, I think it's a studio thing, which does not help. It's a very lyrical, as all Bizet is, thing -- : The very last thing, "Carmen, io t'amo" is simple enough and should merit a good round. -- It's all a crescendo thing, having started so delicately. The ideal aria, or ideal format of an aria to culminate in big applause.
"E la solita storia del pastore" (Arlesiana, Cilea). Role created by Caruso. Last line: "Fatale vission, mi lascia, mi fai tanto male, ahime". There are variants on this, I should be more familiar with. What I love about this, however, is the passage (just orchestral) between the first and the second part -- just after the strings take up the last bit of the vocal line in "di lei il dolce sembiante". I like an aria to be tender. The fact that we never SEE this Arlesiana who "has done so much bad" to the tenor is NOT credible. I do not have a DVD version of this, but I expect it elicits lots of applause.
"Ecco ridente in cielo" (Rossini, Barbiere). It's a 'quoted' aria --. Not something coming out of the tenor's heart, but as disguised as a troubador. It's too artsy. The last line, "lo stral che mi feri" contain the best orchestration -- and THAT to me is the end of the aria, even if it officially goes on with some 'marcia' type thing which is so unromantic that becomes distracting.
"Nessun dorma". Possibly the most applauded piece in all-time opera.
"Cielo e mare". A trick. Ponchielli, Gioconda. "Vieni," "della vita e del amor", the last line. It's pretty good and ideal for applause. The setting helps. Of course, knowing that the 'boat' will go on flames soon after add to the dramatism. I forget what the Enzo who created this role was like. The fact that it's the only Ponchielli that survives does not help to get an idea of what type of aria this composer favoured. One usually studies him as a 'satellite' of Verdi, as others study contemporaries of Sullivan in London as satellites of the Savoyard. Plus, all the applause will go to that 'interpolation': the dance of the hours.
"Ah, non mi ridestar". (Werther, Bizet). A good piece to applaud. Last line: "e che dolore. Ohime!". A sort of low trick. If you are expressing your pain in such an explicit way, isn't the thing to do to provide help via some sort of 'emotional support' that an applause amounts to? Surely the wicked characters in opera get LESS of an applause. "Which is ridiculous," as Joan Sutherland said. "Bel canto means that even the wickedest people should get their due of good applause", as she reminisced over "Lucrezia Borgia", the poisoner of all. Kraus made this aria his own, and he did NOT care for applause, much. It seems. He was too professional to care, they say. And he looked it.
"Celeste Aida". Apparently Mongini had a 'flexible' voice but not too expressive. So perhaps Verdi KNEW that he would go 'bombastic' with "vicino al sol, vicino al sol, vicino al sol" and all the aristocracy and the 'eastern' ladies occupying the royal boxes-cum-harem would be there. And there is a cultural gap there. So perhaps Verdi thought it best to just PROHIBIT Mongini to go 'too Italian' over this: marking the thing: 'p pp dim ppp morendo' -- enough to give you a headache.
"Addio fiorito asil" -- Pinkerton. The man is such a bastard that while one APPLAUDS him, one does not love him.
"Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali" (Lucia). This is the END of the opera. So it doesn't COUNT! Surely one has to applaud at the end of the opera. This is my favourite so I should be able to elaborate. There is the recit., which you don't HAVE to applaud (it's actually very CLUMSY to applaud -- but I wouldn't be surprised if someone did in this one, since it's so bombastic). Then comes the aria proper -- with all the Donizettian overlong repetitions, 'remember the imbecile who dies for you' for you -- the ashes of the imbecile who dies for you. ... I suppose that is technical the end of the aria. But in my tracking, I cannot wait for the cabaletta, with which the thing ends. At this point the thing has gotten so complicated, that I can only pity Rubini. He has a whole CHORUS at his side. So his last line, "ne coniunga il nume in ciel" gets to mixed up with what all the other hypocrites are saying ("What a scene of horror! Forgive him, he doesn't know what he did -- by stabbing himself") that you don't know WHO you are applauding. It's a good thing Lucia is well dead by then! (But surely most know that one has to save some energy of applause for the re-appearance of the soprano a few minutes after the end of the opera).
"Sogno soave e casto" (Don Pasquale). A masterpiece I would applaud and applaud and applaud. Created by Mario. But the plot and the character and the morale of this aria is so superficial and feign ("Go with him. I renounce to you if your life with the millonaire will make you happier") that one is reluctant to applaud TOO MUCH. It's not like somebody is dying or something.
"Tra voi, belle, brune e bionde" (Puccini, Manon Lescaut) -- usually NOT applauded. I don't see why they had to include this arietta in this collection. And the last bit is:
"Una furtiva lagrima" (Donizetti). Role created by Genero, who would not have cared for applause. The final is so repetitive it ACCUMULATES desire to applaud. Each repetition is like the tenor saying: "you thought the aria is over -- it's not -- See how much I can still sing! See how I FEEL the lines! Di piu non chiedo". What really annoys me is that the original version (and in some recordings too) this ends with "CHIEDO" not with "die of love". "Amor" does NOT rhyme with the "Lo vedo" of the first stanza! Or something!
Speranza -- Bordighera
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Trama di Aida
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
Aida, principessa etiope, viene catturata e condotta in schiavitù in Egitto. Radamès, un comandante militare, è combattuto nella scelta tra il suo amore per Aida e la sua fedeltà al Faraone. A complicare ulteriormente le cose, Radamès è amato da Amneris, la figlia del Faraone, ma non ricambia il sentimento della principessa. Il Re degli etiopi (Amonasro, padre di Aida) si fa catturare, per vincere la guerra, ma nessuno conosce la sua vera identità. Radamès dice ad Aida che la guerra finirà con un ultimo attacco. Amonasro lo sente e fa fallire l’attacco e la guerra è vinta dagli etiopi. Radamès si fa punire dal padre e dal Faraone e viene seppellito vivo. Aida, innamorata di lui, si fa seppellire vicino a lui.
Atto I [modifica]
Scena I: Sala del palazzo del Re a Menfi.
Aida, figlia del Re di Etiopia Amonasro, vive a Menfi come schiava; gli Egizi l'hanno catturata durante una spedizione militare contro l'Etiopia ignorando la sua vera identità. Suo padre ha organizzato una incursione in Egitto per liberarla dalla prigionia. Ma fin dalla sua cattura, Aida si è innamorata del giovane guerriero Radamès, che a sua volta la ama (Radamès: "Se quel guerrier io fossi... Celeste Aida"). Aida ha una pericolosa rivale, Amneris, la figlia del Re d'Egitto (duetto, Radamès e Amneris: "Quale insolita fiamma nel tuo sguardo!"). Giunta Aida, Amneris intuisce che possa essere lei la fiamma di Radamès e falsamente la consola dal suo pianto (terzetto, Aida, Amneris e Radamès: "Ohimè! di guerra fremere l'atroce grido io sento"). Appare il Re assieme agli ufficiali e Ramfis che introduce un messaggero recante le notizie dal confine. Aida è preoccupata: suo padre sta marciando contro l'Egitto. Alla fine il Re dichiara che Radamès è stato scelto da Iside come comandante dell'esercito che combatterà contro Amonasro (inno di battaglia: "Su, del Nilo al sacro lido"). Il cuore di Aida è diviso tra l'amore per il padre e la Patria e l'amore per Radamès (Aida: "Ritorna vincitor!").
Scena II: Interno del tempio di Vulcano a Menfi.
Cerimonie solenni e danza delle sacerdotesse (coro delle sacerdotesse: "Immenso Fthà del mondo"). Investitura di Radamès come comandante in capo (preghiera, Ramfis e coro: "Nume, custode e vindice di questa sacra terra").
Atto II [modifica]
Scena I: Una sala nell'appartamento di Amneris.
Danze festose e musica nelle stanze di Amneris (coro di donne: "Chi mai fra gl'inni e i plausi erge alla gloria il vol" e la celebre Danza degli schiavi Mori). Amneris riceve la sua schiava Aida e ingegnosamente la spinge a dichiarare il suo amore per Radamès, mentendole dicendo che Radamès è morto in battaglia; la reazione di Aida alla notizia la tradisce rivelando il suo amore per Radamès (Amneris e Aida: "Fu la sorte dell'armi a' tuoi funesta, povera Aida" Aida: "Amore, amore! Gaudio, tormento"). Amneris, scoperto il suo amore, la minaccia: ella è figlia del Faraone. Con orgoglio Aida dice che anche lei è figlia di re, ma se ne pente ben presto. Risuonano da fuori le trombe della vittoria. Amneris obbliga Aida a vedere con lei il trionfo dell'Egitto e la sconfitta del suo popolo ("Alla pompa che s'appresta, meco o schiava assisterai"). Aida è disperata, e chiede perdono ad Amneris ("...questo amore che t'irrita nella tomba spegnerò").
Scena II: Uno degli ingressi della città di Tebe.
Radamès torna vincitore (coro, Re e popolo: "Gloria all'Egitto"). Marcia trionfale. Il faraone decreta che in questo giorno il trionfatore Radamès potrà avere tutto quello che desidera. I prigionieri etiopi sono condotti alla presenza del Re e Amonasro è uno di questi. Aida immediatamente accorre ad abbracciare il padre, ma le loro vere identità sono ancora sconosciute agli Egizi. Amonasro infatti dichiara che il Re etiope è stato ucciso in battaglia (Amonasro: "Quest'assisa ch'io vesto vi dica"). Radamès per amore di Aida usa l'offerta del Re per chiedere il rilascio dei prigionieri. Il Re d'Egitto, grato a Radamès, lo proclama suo successore al trono concedendogli la mano della figlia Amneris e fa inoltre rilasciare i prigionieri, ma fa restare Aida e Amonasro come ostaggi per assicurare che gli etiopi non cerchino di vendicare la loro sconfitta.
Atto III [modifica]
Scena: Le rive del Nilo, vicino al tempio di Iside.
(Coro dei sacerdoti e delle sacerdotesse: "O tu che sei d'Osiride...") Amonasro e Aida sono tenuti in ostaggio (aria, Aida: "O cieli azzurri"); il Re etiope costringe la figlia a farsi rivelare da Radamès la posizione dell'esercito egizio (duetto, Aida e Amonasro: "A te grave cagion m'adduce"). Radamès ha solo apparentemente consentito di diventare il marito di Amneris, e fidandosi di Aida, durante la conversazione le rivela le informazioni richieste dal padre (duetto, Radamès e Aida: "Pur ti riveggo mia dolce Aida"). Quando Amonasro rivela la sua identità e fugge con Aida, Radamès, disperato per avere involontariamente tradito il suo Re e la sua Patria, si consegna prigioniero al sommo sacerdote (terzetto, Amonasro, Aida e Radamès: "Io son disonorato!").
Atto IV [modifica]
Scena I: Sala nel palazzo del Re; andito a destra che conduce alla prigione di Radamès.
Amneris desidera salvare Radamès ("L'aborrita rivale a me sfuggìa"), ma lui la respinge (duetto, Amneris e Radamès: "Già i Sacerdoti adunansi / Arbitri del tuo fato"). Il suo processo ha luogo fuori dal palcoscenico; egli non parla in propria difesa, mentre Amneris, che rimane sul palco, si appella ai sacerdoti affinché gli mostrino pietà. Radamès viene condannato a morte per tradimento e sarà sepolto vivo. Amneris maledice i sacerdoti mentre Radamès viene portato via (scena del processo, Amneris, Ramfis e coro: "Spirto del Nume, sovra noi discendi!").
Scena II: L'interno del tempio di Vulcano e la tomba di Radamès; la scena è divisa in due piani: il piano superiore rappresenta l'interno del tempio splendente d'oro e di luce, il piano inferiore un sotterraneo.
Aida si è nascosta nella cripta per morire con Radamès (duetto, Radamès e Aida: "La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse"). I due amanti accettano il loro terribile destino (Radamès: "Morir, sì pura e bella!"), dicono addio al mondo e alle sue pene, e aspettano l'alba ("O terra addio, addio valle di pianti"), mentre Amneris piange e prega sopra la loro tomba durante le cerimonie religiose e la danza di gioia delle sacerdotesse (coro di sacerdoti e sacerdotesse: "Immenso Fthà").
Aida, principessa etiope, viene catturata e condotta in schiavitù in Egitto. Radamès, un comandante militare, è combattuto nella scelta tra il suo amore per Aida e la sua fedeltà al Faraone. A complicare ulteriormente le cose, Radamès è amato da Amneris, la figlia del Faraone, ma non ricambia il sentimento della principessa. Il Re degli etiopi (Amonasro, padre di Aida) si fa catturare, per vincere la guerra, ma nessuno conosce la sua vera identità. Radamès dice ad Aida che la guerra finirà con un ultimo attacco. Amonasro lo sente e fa fallire l’attacco e la guerra è vinta dagli etiopi. Radamès si fa punire dal padre e dal Faraone e viene seppellito vivo. Aida, innamorata di lui, si fa seppellire vicino a lui.
Atto I [modifica]
Scena I: Sala del palazzo del Re a Menfi.
Aida, figlia del Re di Etiopia Amonasro, vive a Menfi come schiava; gli Egizi l'hanno catturata durante una spedizione militare contro l'Etiopia ignorando la sua vera identità. Suo padre ha organizzato una incursione in Egitto per liberarla dalla prigionia. Ma fin dalla sua cattura, Aida si è innamorata del giovane guerriero Radamès, che a sua volta la ama (Radamès: "Se quel guerrier io fossi... Celeste Aida"). Aida ha una pericolosa rivale, Amneris, la figlia del Re d'Egitto (duetto, Radamès e Amneris: "Quale insolita fiamma nel tuo sguardo!"). Giunta Aida, Amneris intuisce che possa essere lei la fiamma di Radamès e falsamente la consola dal suo pianto (terzetto, Aida, Amneris e Radamès: "Ohimè! di guerra fremere l'atroce grido io sento"). Appare il Re assieme agli ufficiali e Ramfis che introduce un messaggero recante le notizie dal confine. Aida è preoccupata: suo padre sta marciando contro l'Egitto. Alla fine il Re dichiara che Radamès è stato scelto da Iside come comandante dell'esercito che combatterà contro Amonasro (inno di battaglia: "Su, del Nilo al sacro lido"). Il cuore di Aida è diviso tra l'amore per il padre e la Patria e l'amore per Radamès (Aida: "Ritorna vincitor!").
Scena II: Interno del tempio di Vulcano a Menfi.
Cerimonie solenni e danza delle sacerdotesse (coro delle sacerdotesse: "Immenso Fthà del mondo"). Investitura di Radamès come comandante in capo (preghiera, Ramfis e coro: "Nume, custode e vindice di questa sacra terra").
Atto II [modifica]
Scena I: Una sala nell'appartamento di Amneris.
Danze festose e musica nelle stanze di Amneris (coro di donne: "Chi mai fra gl'inni e i plausi erge alla gloria il vol" e la celebre Danza degli schiavi Mori). Amneris riceve la sua schiava Aida e ingegnosamente la spinge a dichiarare il suo amore per Radamès, mentendole dicendo che Radamès è morto in battaglia; la reazione di Aida alla notizia la tradisce rivelando il suo amore per Radamès (Amneris e Aida: "Fu la sorte dell'armi a' tuoi funesta, povera Aida" Aida: "Amore, amore! Gaudio, tormento"). Amneris, scoperto il suo amore, la minaccia: ella è figlia del Faraone. Con orgoglio Aida dice che anche lei è figlia di re, ma se ne pente ben presto. Risuonano da fuori le trombe della vittoria. Amneris obbliga Aida a vedere con lei il trionfo dell'Egitto e la sconfitta del suo popolo ("Alla pompa che s'appresta, meco o schiava assisterai"). Aida è disperata, e chiede perdono ad Amneris ("...questo amore che t'irrita nella tomba spegnerò").
Scena II: Uno degli ingressi della città di Tebe.
Radamès torna vincitore (coro, Re e popolo: "Gloria all'Egitto"). Marcia trionfale. Il faraone decreta che in questo giorno il trionfatore Radamès potrà avere tutto quello che desidera. I prigionieri etiopi sono condotti alla presenza del Re e Amonasro è uno di questi. Aida immediatamente accorre ad abbracciare il padre, ma le loro vere identità sono ancora sconosciute agli Egizi. Amonasro infatti dichiara che il Re etiope è stato ucciso in battaglia (Amonasro: "Quest'assisa ch'io vesto vi dica"). Radamès per amore di Aida usa l'offerta del Re per chiedere il rilascio dei prigionieri. Il Re d'Egitto, grato a Radamès, lo proclama suo successore al trono concedendogli la mano della figlia Amneris e fa inoltre rilasciare i prigionieri, ma fa restare Aida e Amonasro come ostaggi per assicurare che gli etiopi non cerchino di vendicare la loro sconfitta.
Atto III [modifica]
Scena: Le rive del Nilo, vicino al tempio di Iside.
(Coro dei sacerdoti e delle sacerdotesse: "O tu che sei d'Osiride...") Amonasro e Aida sono tenuti in ostaggio (aria, Aida: "O cieli azzurri"); il Re etiope costringe la figlia a farsi rivelare da Radamès la posizione dell'esercito egizio (duetto, Aida e Amonasro: "A te grave cagion m'adduce"). Radamès ha solo apparentemente consentito di diventare il marito di Amneris, e fidandosi di Aida, durante la conversazione le rivela le informazioni richieste dal padre (duetto, Radamès e Aida: "Pur ti riveggo mia dolce Aida"). Quando Amonasro rivela la sua identità e fugge con Aida, Radamès, disperato per avere involontariamente tradito il suo Re e la sua Patria, si consegna prigioniero al sommo sacerdote (terzetto, Amonasro, Aida e Radamès: "Io son disonorato!").
Atto IV [modifica]
Scena I: Sala nel palazzo del Re; andito a destra che conduce alla prigione di Radamès.
Amneris desidera salvare Radamès ("L'aborrita rivale a me sfuggìa"), ma lui la respinge (duetto, Amneris e Radamès: "Già i Sacerdoti adunansi / Arbitri del tuo fato"). Il suo processo ha luogo fuori dal palcoscenico; egli non parla in propria difesa, mentre Amneris, che rimane sul palco, si appella ai sacerdoti affinché gli mostrino pietà. Radamès viene condannato a morte per tradimento e sarà sepolto vivo. Amneris maledice i sacerdoti mentre Radamès viene portato via (scena del processo, Amneris, Ramfis e coro: "Spirto del Nume, sovra noi discendi!").
Scena II: L'interno del tempio di Vulcano e la tomba di Radamès; la scena è divisa in due piani: il piano superiore rappresenta l'interno del tempio splendente d'oro e di luce, il piano inferiore un sotterraneo.
Aida si è nascosta nella cripta per morire con Radamès (duetto, Radamès e Aida: "La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse"). I due amanti accettano il loro terribile destino (Radamès: "Morir, sì pura e bella!"), dicono addio al mondo e alle sue pene, e aspettano l'alba ("O terra addio, addio valle di pianti"), mentre Amneris piange e prega sopra la loro tomba durante le cerimonie religiose e la danza di gioia delle sacerdotesse (coro di sacerdoti e sacerdotesse: "Immenso Fthà").
Radames -- Celeste Aida
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
From an online essay on "Aida"
the paradox of Radames, with "his love for a woman who is the princess of these "barbarous Africans"".
From an online essay on "Aida"
the paradox of Radames, with "his love for a woman who is the princess of these "barbarous Africans"".
"Dal Nilo al Tirreno" -- and back: With Verdi's "Aida" at the Colón, and Mozart's "Così fan tutte" at the Avenida, "Gli Operai" dedicate their fortnightly meeting to Ferrando's amourous aria ("Un'aura amorosa") and how belcanto evolved into a big heroic thing by the time of Radamès ("Celeste Aida"). With Luigi Speranza at the piano. 5 pm, St. Michael Hall, Calle 58, No. 611, La Plata.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
An excellent classification of tenors (with A-Z tenors and A-Z tenor roles)
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
Lirico-Leggiero tenor
The male equivalent of a lyric coloratura, this voice is a light lyric instrument, is very agile and is able to perform difficult passages of fioritura. The Lirico-Leggiero tenor has a range of approximately the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the D above tenor C (D5), with a few leggiero tenors being able to sing F5 and even higher while maintaining quality to the sound. Similarly, the lirico-leggero may be able to sing a little lower than the C3. The voice is the highest operatic tenor voice and is sometimes referred to as "tenore di grazia". This voice is utilized frequently in the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and the highest Baroque repertoire for tenors.
Lirico-Leggiero Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Count Almaviva, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
Belmonte, The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Ernesto, Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Ferrando, Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Lindoro, L'italiana in Algeri (Rossini)
Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Don Ramiro, La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Tonio, La Fille du Régiment (Donizetti)
Lirico-Leggiero Tenor Singers:
John Aler
Luigi Alva
Ian Bostridge
Rockwell Blake
Lawrence Brownlee
Richard Croft
Juan Diego Flórez
Topi Lehtipuu
William Matteuzzi
Francesco Meli
Peter Schreier
Tito Schipa
Léopold Simoneau
Ferruccio Tagliavini
Cesare Valletti
[edit] Lyric tenor
A warm graceful voice with a bright, full timbre that is strong but not heavy and can be heard over an orchestra. Lyric tenors have a range from approximately the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the D one octave above middle C (D5) with some able to sing up to E♭5 and higher. Similarly, their lower range may extend a few notes below the C3. There are many vocal shades to the lyric tenor group, repertoire should be selected according to the weight, colors, and abilities of the voice.
Lyric Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Alfredo, La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Arturo, I Puritani (Vincenzo Bellini)
Chevalier, Dialogues des Carmélites (Francis Poulenc)
David, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Richard Wagner)
Il Duca di Mantova, Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)
Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti)
Elvino, La Sonnambula (Bellini)
Faust, Faust (Charles Gounod)
Fenton, Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
Hoffmann, The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Lensky, Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Oronte, I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini)
Rodolfo, La Bohème (Puccini)
Roméo, Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
Tamino, Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
Werther, Werther (Jules Massenet)
Wilhelm Meister, Mignon (Ambroise Thomas)
Guillaume Tell, Arnold (Giacchino Rossini)
Lyric Tenor Singers:
Nazareno Antinori
Roberto Alagna
Marcelo Álvarez
Giacomo Aragall
Piotr Beczała
Evgeny Belyaev
Jussi Björling
Joseph Calleja
José Carreras
Richard Croft
Richard Crooks
Giuseppe di Stefano
Gerald English
Salvatore Fisichella
Miguel Fleta
Luigi Marini
Beniamino Gigli
Nicolai Gedda
Jerry Hadley
Pyotr Slovtsov
Tibor Kelen
Sergei Lemeshev
John McCormack
Francesco Marconi
Chris Merritt
Luciano Pavarotti
Jan Peerce
Alfred Piccaver
Jacques Pottier
Dmitri Smirnov
Leonid Sobinov
Richard Tauber
Joseph Schmidt
Robert Swensen
Alain Vanzo
Ramón Vargas
Fernando del Valle
Rolando Villazón
Gösta Winbergh
Fritz Wunderlich
Gustavo Zamora
Rok Krajnc
[edit] Spinto tenor
This voice has the brightness and height of a lyric tenor, but with a heavier vocal weight enabling the voice to be "pushed" to dramatic climaxes with less strain than the lighter-voice counterparts. (They are also known as "lyric-dramatic" tenors.) This fach is divided into lirico-spinto and drammatico-spinto, though it is an old-school Italian tradition to do so and Spinto tenors today are simply labeled "Spinto". Spinto tenors have a darker timbre than a lyric tenor, without having a vocal color as dark as a dramatic tenor. However, other spinto tenors, such as Carlo Bergonzi have brightly colored and lyrical sounding voices, but are nevertheless able to perform spinto roles due to large vocal size or high volume [2]. Spinto tenors have a wide range of flexibility within the fach system being able to perform such roles as Radames in Aida and Don Alvaro in La forza del destino as well as lighter roles such as the Duca in Rigoletto and Werther. The German equivalent of the Spinto fach is the Jugendlicher Heldentenor and encompasses many of the Dramatic tenor roles as well as some Wagner roles such as Lohengrin and Siegmund. The difference is often the depth and metal in the voice where some lyric tenors age or push their way into singing as a Spinto giving them a lighter tone and Jugendlicher Heldentenors tend to be either young heldentenors or true lyric dramatic voices giving them a dark dramatic tenor like tone. Spinto tenors have a range from approximately the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the C one octave above middle C (C5), and, like the lyric tenors, they are often capable of reaching D5 and sometimes higher. Similarly, their lower range may extend a few notes below the C3.[2]
Spinto Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Andrea Chénier, Andrea Chénier (Umberto Giordano)
Canio, Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
Don Carlo, Don Carlo (Verdi)
Don José, Carmen (Bizet)
Erik, Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner)
Ernani, Ernani (Verdi)
Hermann, Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)
Idomeneo, Idomeneo (Mozart)
Macduff, Macbeth (opera) (Verdi)
Manrico, Il trovatore (Verdi)
Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca (Puccini)
Maurizio, Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea)
Max, Der Freischütz (Carl Maria von Weber)
Pollione Norma (Bellini)
Stiffelio Stiffelio (Verdi)
Riccardo, Un ballo in maschera (Verdi)
Turiddu, Cavalleria rusticana (Pietro Mascagni)
Spinto Tenor Singers:
Carlo Bergonzi
Beniamino Gigli
Franco Corelli
Plácido Domingo
Giuseppe Giacomini
Jonas Kaufmann
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Francesco Merli
Giovanni Martinelli
Aureliano Pertile
Helge Rosvaenge
Georges Thill
Richard Tucker
[edit] Dramatic tenor
Also "tenore di forza" or "robusto" – a rich, emotive, ringing and very powerful, clarion heroic tenor. The dramatic tenor has an approximate range from the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the C one octave above middle C (C5).[2] Many successful dramatic tenors have historically avoided the coveted high C in performance. Their lower range tends to extend into the baritone tessitura or, a few notes below the C3.
Dramatic Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Calaf, Turandot (Puccini)
Canio, I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Cavaradossi, Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
Dick Johnson, La fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini)
Don Alvaro, La forza del destino (Verdi)
Florestan, Fidelio (Beethoven)
Otello, Otello (Verdi)
Peter Grimes, Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
Radames, Aïda (Verdi)
Samson, Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns)
Dramatic Tenor Singers:
Franco Bonisolli
Enrico Caruso
Giuseppe Giacomini later in career
Mario del Monaco
James McCracken
Aureliano Pertile later in career
Jean de Reszke
Vladimir Rosing
Francesco Tamagno
Ramon Vinay
[edit] Heldentenor
A rich, dark, powerful and dramatic voice. As its name implies, the Heldentenor (English: heroic tenor) vocal fach features in the German romantic operatic repertoire. The Heldentenor is the German equivalent of the tenore drammatico, however with a more baritonal quality: the typical Wagnerian protagonist. The keystone of the heldentenor's repertoire is arguably Wagner's Siegfried, an extremely demanding role requiring a wide vocal range and great power, plus tremendous stamina and acting ability. Often the heldentenor is a baritone who has transitioned to this fach or tenors who have been misidentified as baritones. Therefore the heldentenor voice might or might not have facility up to high B or C. The repertoire, however, rarely calls for such high notes. A Heldentenor is less a true tenor than a baritone with a strong top register. Heldentenor Roles In Operas & Operettas:[2]
Florestan, Fidelio (Beethoven)
Tannhäuser, Tannhäuser (Wagner)
Loge, Das Rheingold (Wagner)
Lohengrin, Lohengrin (Wagner)
Parsifal, Parsifal (Wagner)
Drum Major, Wozzeck (Berg)
Siegfried, Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
Siegfried, Siegfried (Wagner)
Siegmund, Die Walküre (Wagner)
Walter von Stolzing, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner)
Tristan, Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Heldentenor Singers:
Bernd Aldenhoff
Giuseppe Borgatti
Karel Burian
Richard Cassilly
Mario del Monaco
Wilhelm Elsner
Stephen Gould
Ben Heppner
Siegfried Jerusalem
James King
Heinrich Knote
Ernst Kraus
Lauritz Melchior
Albert Niemann
Simon O'Neill
Ticho Parly
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Peter Seiffert
Ludwig Suthaus
Set Svanholm
Josef Tichatschek
Jacques Urlus
Jon Vickers
Wolfgang Windgassen
Franz Völker
Ivan Yershov
Jess Thomas
René Kollo
[edit] Tenor buffo or Spieltenor
A tenor with good acting ability, and the ability to create distinct voices for his characters. This voice specializes in smaller comic roles. The range of the tenor buffo is from the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the C one octave above middle C (C5). The tessitura of these parts lies lower than the other tenor roles. These parts are often played by younger tenors who have not yet reached their full vocal potential or older tenors who are beyond their prime singing years. Only rarely will a singer specialize in these roles for an entire career.[2] In French opéra comique, supporting roles requiring a thin voice but good acting are sometimes described as 'trial', after the singer Antoine Trial (1737–1795), examples being in the operas of Ravel and in The Tales of Hoffmann.[11]
Tenor Buffo or Spieltenor Roles in Opera & Operettas:[2]
Count Danilo Danilovitsch, Die Lustige Witwe (Franz Lehár)
Don Basilio, The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Mime, Siegfried (Richard Wagner)
Don Anchise/ Il Podestà, La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart)
Monostatos, The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Pedrillo, The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
Slender, The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera) (Otto Nicolai)
Kálmán Zsupán, The Gypsy Baron (Johann Strauss II)
The Captain, Wozzeck (Alban Berg)
The Magician, The Consul (Gian-Carlo Menotti)
Beppe, I Pagliacci (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
Frantz, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)
Spoletta, Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
Goro, Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
Pong, Turandot (Giacomo Puccini)
Gastone, La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Tenor Buffo or Spieltenor singers:
Charles Anthony
Nico Castel
Graham Clark (tenor)
Piero de Palma
Anthony Laciura
Michel Sénéchal
Darren Keith Woods
Heinz Zednik
Renato Ercolani
Gerhard Stolze
[edit] Operetta
Tenor Roles in Operetta: All of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operettas have at least one lead lyric tenor character; other notable roles are:
Candide, (Candide)
Eisenstein, (Die Fledermaus)
Camille, Count de Rosillon, (The Merry Widow)
Prince Karl, (The Student Prince)
Sheikh Red Shadow, (The Desert Song)
Captain Dick, (Naughty Marietta)
[edit] References
Specific references:
1.^ McKinney, James (1994). The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults. Genovex Music Group. ISBN 978-1565939400.
2.^ a b c d e f g h i j k Boldrey, Richard (1994). Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias. Caldwell Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1877761645.
3.^ Stark, James (2003). Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086143.
4.^ a b Smith, Brenda (2005). Choral Pedagogy. Plural Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1597560436.
5.^ Shortage of tenors acknowledged (but blamed on cultural discouragement)
6.^ Joseph Callega interview: mentions shortage of tenors
7.^ The disciplines of vocal pedagogy By Karen Sell: mentions shortage of tenors
8.^ Averill, Gage (2003). Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195116724.
9.^ Cantwell, Robert (2002). Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252071171.
10.^ Appelman, D. Ralph (1986). The Science of Vocal Pedagogy: Theory and Application. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253203786.
11.^ Cotte RJV. Trial, French family of musicians. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
General references:
David Fallows, Owen Jander. Tenor, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy, grovemusic.com (subscription required)
Lirico-Leggiero tenor
The male equivalent of a lyric coloratura, this voice is a light lyric instrument, is very agile and is able to perform difficult passages of fioritura. The Lirico-Leggiero tenor has a range of approximately the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the D above tenor C (D5), with a few leggiero tenors being able to sing F5 and even higher while maintaining quality to the sound. Similarly, the lirico-leggero may be able to sing a little lower than the C3. The voice is the highest operatic tenor voice and is sometimes referred to as "tenore di grazia". This voice is utilized frequently in the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and the highest Baroque repertoire for tenors.
Lirico-Leggiero Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Count Almaviva, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
Belmonte, The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Ernesto, Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
Ferrando, Così fan tutte (Mozart)
Lindoro, L'italiana in Algeri (Rossini)
Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Don Ramiro, La Cenerentola (Rossini)
Tonio, La Fille du Régiment (Donizetti)
Lirico-Leggiero Tenor Singers:
John Aler
Luigi Alva
Ian Bostridge
Rockwell Blake
Lawrence Brownlee
Richard Croft
Juan Diego Flórez
Topi Lehtipuu
William Matteuzzi
Francesco Meli
Peter Schreier
Tito Schipa
Léopold Simoneau
Ferruccio Tagliavini
Cesare Valletti
[edit] Lyric tenor
A warm graceful voice with a bright, full timbre that is strong but not heavy and can be heard over an orchestra. Lyric tenors have a range from approximately the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the D one octave above middle C (D5) with some able to sing up to E♭5 and higher. Similarly, their lower range may extend a few notes below the C3. There are many vocal shades to the lyric tenor group, repertoire should be selected according to the weight, colors, and abilities of the voice.
Lyric Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Alfredo, La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Arturo, I Puritani (Vincenzo Bellini)
Chevalier, Dialogues des Carmélites (Francis Poulenc)
David, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Richard Wagner)
Il Duca di Mantova, Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)
Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti)
Elvino, La Sonnambula (Bellini)
Faust, Faust (Charles Gounod)
Fenton, Falstaff (Giuseppe Verdi)
Hoffmann, The Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)
Lensky, Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)
Oronte, I Lombardi alla prima crociata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
Rinuccio, Gianni Schicchi (Giacomo Puccini)
Rodolfo, La Bohème (Puccini)
Roméo, Roméo et Juliette (Gounod)
Tamino, Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
Werther, Werther (Jules Massenet)
Wilhelm Meister, Mignon (Ambroise Thomas)
Guillaume Tell, Arnold (Giacchino Rossini)
Lyric Tenor Singers:
Nazareno Antinori
Roberto Alagna
Marcelo Álvarez
Giacomo Aragall
Piotr Beczała
Evgeny Belyaev
Jussi Björling
Joseph Calleja
José Carreras
Richard Croft
Richard Crooks
Giuseppe di Stefano
Gerald English
Salvatore Fisichella
Miguel Fleta
Luigi Marini
Beniamino Gigli
Nicolai Gedda
Jerry Hadley
Pyotr Slovtsov
Tibor Kelen
Sergei Lemeshev
John McCormack
Francesco Marconi
Chris Merritt
Luciano Pavarotti
Jan Peerce
Alfred Piccaver
Jacques Pottier
Dmitri Smirnov
Leonid Sobinov
Richard Tauber
Joseph Schmidt
Robert Swensen
Alain Vanzo
Ramón Vargas
Fernando del Valle
Rolando Villazón
Gösta Winbergh
Fritz Wunderlich
Gustavo Zamora
Rok Krajnc
[edit] Spinto tenor
This voice has the brightness and height of a lyric tenor, but with a heavier vocal weight enabling the voice to be "pushed" to dramatic climaxes with less strain than the lighter-voice counterparts. (They are also known as "lyric-dramatic" tenors.) This fach is divided into lirico-spinto and drammatico-spinto, though it is an old-school Italian tradition to do so and Spinto tenors today are simply labeled "Spinto". Spinto tenors have a darker timbre than a lyric tenor, without having a vocal color as dark as a dramatic tenor. However, other spinto tenors, such as Carlo Bergonzi have brightly colored and lyrical sounding voices, but are nevertheless able to perform spinto roles due to large vocal size or high volume [2]. Spinto tenors have a wide range of flexibility within the fach system being able to perform such roles as Radames in Aida and Don Alvaro in La forza del destino as well as lighter roles such as the Duca in Rigoletto and Werther. The German equivalent of the Spinto fach is the Jugendlicher Heldentenor and encompasses many of the Dramatic tenor roles as well as some Wagner roles such as Lohengrin and Siegmund. The difference is often the depth and metal in the voice where some lyric tenors age or push their way into singing as a Spinto giving them a lighter tone and Jugendlicher Heldentenors tend to be either young heldentenors or true lyric dramatic voices giving them a dark dramatic tenor like tone. Spinto tenors have a range from approximately the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the C one octave above middle C (C5), and, like the lyric tenors, they are often capable of reaching D5 and sometimes higher. Similarly, their lower range may extend a few notes below the C3.[2]
Spinto Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Andrea Chénier, Andrea Chénier (Umberto Giordano)
Canio, Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
Don Carlo, Don Carlo (Verdi)
Don José, Carmen (Bizet)
Erik, Der Fliegende Holländer (Wagner)
Ernani, Ernani (Verdi)
Hermann, Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)
Idomeneo, Idomeneo (Mozart)
Macduff, Macbeth (opera) (Verdi)
Manrico, Il trovatore (Verdi)
Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca (Puccini)
Maurizio, Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea)
Max, Der Freischütz (Carl Maria von Weber)
Pollione Norma (Bellini)
Stiffelio Stiffelio (Verdi)
Riccardo, Un ballo in maschera (Verdi)
Turiddu, Cavalleria rusticana (Pietro Mascagni)
Spinto Tenor Singers:
Carlo Bergonzi
Beniamino Gigli
Franco Corelli
Plácido Domingo
Giuseppe Giacomini
Jonas Kaufmann
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Francesco Merli
Giovanni Martinelli
Aureliano Pertile
Helge Rosvaenge
Georges Thill
Richard Tucker
[edit] Dramatic tenor
Also "tenore di forza" or "robusto" – a rich, emotive, ringing and very powerful, clarion heroic tenor. The dramatic tenor has an approximate range from the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the C one octave above middle C (C5).[2] Many successful dramatic tenors have historically avoided the coveted high C in performance. Their lower range tends to extend into the baritone tessitura or, a few notes below the C3.
Dramatic Tenor Roles In Opera & Operettas:[2]
Calaf, Turandot (Puccini)
Canio, I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo)
Cavaradossi, Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
Dick Johnson, La fanciulla del West (Giacomo Puccini)
Don Alvaro, La forza del destino (Verdi)
Florestan, Fidelio (Beethoven)
Otello, Otello (Verdi)
Peter Grimes, Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
Radames, Aïda (Verdi)
Samson, Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns)
Dramatic Tenor Singers:
Franco Bonisolli
Enrico Caruso
Giuseppe Giacomini later in career
Mario del Monaco
James McCracken
Aureliano Pertile later in career
Jean de Reszke
Vladimir Rosing
Francesco Tamagno
Ramon Vinay
[edit] Heldentenor
A rich, dark, powerful and dramatic voice. As its name implies, the Heldentenor (English: heroic tenor) vocal fach features in the German romantic operatic repertoire. The Heldentenor is the German equivalent of the tenore drammatico, however with a more baritonal quality: the typical Wagnerian protagonist. The keystone of the heldentenor's repertoire is arguably Wagner's Siegfried, an extremely demanding role requiring a wide vocal range and great power, plus tremendous stamina and acting ability. Often the heldentenor is a baritone who has transitioned to this fach or tenors who have been misidentified as baritones. Therefore the heldentenor voice might or might not have facility up to high B or C. The repertoire, however, rarely calls for such high notes. A Heldentenor is less a true tenor than a baritone with a strong top register. Heldentenor Roles In Operas & Operettas:[2]
Florestan, Fidelio (Beethoven)
Tannhäuser, Tannhäuser (Wagner)
Loge, Das Rheingold (Wagner)
Lohengrin, Lohengrin (Wagner)
Parsifal, Parsifal (Wagner)
Drum Major, Wozzeck (Berg)
Siegfried, Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
Siegfried, Siegfried (Wagner)
Siegmund, Die Walküre (Wagner)
Walter von Stolzing, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner)
Tristan, Tristan und Isolde (Wagner)
Heldentenor Singers:
Bernd Aldenhoff
Giuseppe Borgatti
Karel Burian
Richard Cassilly
Mario del Monaco
Wilhelm Elsner
Stephen Gould
Ben Heppner
Siegfried Jerusalem
James King
Heinrich Knote
Ernst Kraus
Lauritz Melchior
Albert Niemann
Simon O'Neill
Ticho Parly
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Peter Seiffert
Ludwig Suthaus
Set Svanholm
Josef Tichatschek
Jacques Urlus
Jon Vickers
Wolfgang Windgassen
Franz Völker
Ivan Yershov
Jess Thomas
René Kollo
[edit] Tenor buffo or Spieltenor
A tenor with good acting ability, and the ability to create distinct voices for his characters. This voice specializes in smaller comic roles. The range of the tenor buffo is from the C one octave below middle C (C3) to the C one octave above middle C (C5). The tessitura of these parts lies lower than the other tenor roles. These parts are often played by younger tenors who have not yet reached their full vocal potential or older tenors who are beyond their prime singing years. Only rarely will a singer specialize in these roles for an entire career.[2] In French opéra comique, supporting roles requiring a thin voice but good acting are sometimes described as 'trial', after the singer Antoine Trial (1737–1795), examples being in the operas of Ravel and in The Tales of Hoffmann.[11]
Tenor Buffo or Spieltenor Roles in Opera & Operettas:[2]
Count Danilo Danilovitsch, Die Lustige Witwe (Franz Lehár)
Don Basilio, The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
Mime, Siegfried (Richard Wagner)
Don Anchise/ Il Podestà, La Finta Giardiniera (Mozart)
Monostatos, The Magic Flute (Mozart)
Pedrillo, The Abduction from the Seraglio (Mozart)
Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus (Johann Strauss II)
Slender, The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera) (Otto Nicolai)
Kálmán Zsupán, The Gypsy Baron (Johann Strauss II)
The Captain, Wozzeck (Alban Berg)
The Magician, The Consul (Gian-Carlo Menotti)
Beppe, I Pagliacci (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
Frantz, Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)
Spoletta, Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
Goro, Madama Butterfly (Giacomo Puccini)
Pong, Turandot (Giacomo Puccini)
Gastone, La traviata (Giuseppe Verdi)
Tenor Buffo or Spieltenor singers:
Charles Anthony
Nico Castel
Graham Clark (tenor)
Piero de Palma
Anthony Laciura
Michel Sénéchal
Darren Keith Woods
Heinz Zednik
Renato Ercolani
Gerhard Stolze
[edit] Operetta
Tenor Roles in Operetta: All of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operettas have at least one lead lyric tenor character; other notable roles are:
Candide, (Candide)
Eisenstein, (Die Fledermaus)
Camille, Count de Rosillon, (The Merry Widow)
Prince Karl, (The Student Prince)
Sheikh Red Shadow, (The Desert Song)
Captain Dick, (Naughty Marietta)
[edit] References
Specific references:
1.^ McKinney, James (1994). The Diagnosis and Correction of Vocal Faults. Genovex Music Group. ISBN 978-1565939400.
2.^ a b c d e f g h i j k Boldrey, Richard (1994). Guide to Operatic Roles and Arias. Caldwell Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1877761645.
3.^ Stark, James (2003). Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086143.
4.^ a b Smith, Brenda (2005). Choral Pedagogy. Plural Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1597560436.
5.^ Shortage of tenors acknowledged (but blamed on cultural discouragement)
6.^ Joseph Callega interview: mentions shortage of tenors
7.^ The disciplines of vocal pedagogy By Karen Sell: mentions shortage of tenors
8.^ Averill, Gage (2003). Four Parts, No Waiting: A Social History of American Barbershop Harmony. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195116724.
9.^ Cantwell, Robert (2002). Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0252071171.
10.^ Appelman, D. Ralph (1986). The Science of Vocal Pedagogy: Theory and Application. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0253203786.
11.^ Cotte RJV. Trial, French family of musicians. In: The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, London and New York, 1997.
General references:
David Fallows, Owen Jander. Tenor, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy, grovemusic.com (subscription required)
Monday, August 16, 2010
Notes on Genero, the first Nemorino
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
From "Gazetta privilegiata di Milano" 14 May 1832:
“Genero ha cantado con el alma, sintiendo lo que expresaba. La tesitura de su papel está muy bien adaptada a sus posibilidades, y cada una de las piezas interpretadas por este joven cantante ha recibido aplausos unánimes”
Genero has sung with his soul, feeling what he expressed. The tessitura of his role is very well adapted to his possibilities, and each one of the pieces interpreted by this young singer has received unanimous applause."
From "Corriere delle dame", 15 May, 1832:
“Un dueto sigue entre este personaje [Giuseppe Frezzolini, el primer Dulcamara] y Nemorino, que demuestra sus capacidades en el bel canto, la mucha experiencia sobre el escenario y el extraordinario valor del tenor Genero. [...] se trata de un tenor con un auténtico mérito de escuela y con mucha fuerza, así como con una gran alma a la hora de acentuar la música”
----
There is an "extraordinary value of the tenor Genero. He is a tenor with an authentic merit of school and with much strength, as much as a great soul at the time of accenctuating the music."
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From "Il cenosore universale dei teatri", 16 May 1832:
“El señor Genero, del cual ya en la primera ópera se apreció hasta qué punto este público apreciaba su valor, consigue ahora el segundo honor de la crítica general. A todos les gusta el sonido de su voz, a todos les gusta el calor de su expresión viva, la manera hábil de hacer vibrar y de atenuar el canto, así como su animada forma de hacer”
"Mr. Genero, everybody loves the sound of his voice; the warmth of his lively expression, the apt way of making a vibration and to soften the singing, and his lively way of doing."
From "Il censore universale dei teatri", 23 May 1832:
“La expresión parece ser la característica principal del canto del señor Genero, y por eso gusta, y por eso gustará cada vez más, cuanto más progrese por este camino”
"Expression seems to be the main characteristic in the singing of Mr. Genero, and that's why he is much liked."
---- I very much agree with the Oxford prof who pointed to me in this direction: we need studies of 'masculinity' and how the original performers created the role in the true sense of 'create'.
From "Gazetta privilegiata di Milano" 14 May 1832:
“Genero ha cantado con el alma, sintiendo lo que expresaba. La tesitura de su papel está muy bien adaptada a sus posibilidades, y cada una de las piezas interpretadas por este joven cantante ha recibido aplausos unánimes”
Genero has sung with his soul, feeling what he expressed. The tessitura of his role is very well adapted to his possibilities, and each one of the pieces interpreted by this young singer has received unanimous applause."
From "Corriere delle dame", 15 May, 1832:
“Un dueto sigue entre este personaje [Giuseppe Frezzolini, el primer Dulcamara] y Nemorino, que demuestra sus capacidades en el bel canto, la mucha experiencia sobre el escenario y el extraordinario valor del tenor Genero. [...] se trata de un tenor con un auténtico mérito de escuela y con mucha fuerza, así como con una gran alma a la hora de acentuar la música”
----
There is an "extraordinary value of the tenor Genero. He is a tenor with an authentic merit of school and with much strength, as much as a great soul at the time of accenctuating the music."
---
From "Il cenosore universale dei teatri", 16 May 1832:
“El señor Genero, del cual ya en la primera ópera se apreció hasta qué punto este público apreciaba su valor, consigue ahora el segundo honor de la crítica general. A todos les gusta el sonido de su voz, a todos les gusta el calor de su expresión viva, la manera hábil de hacer vibrar y de atenuar el canto, así como su animada forma de hacer”
"Mr. Genero, everybody loves the sound of his voice; the warmth of his lively expression, the apt way of making a vibration and to soften the singing, and his lively way of doing."
From "Il censore universale dei teatri", 23 May 1832:
“La expresión parece ser la característica principal del canto del señor Genero, y por eso gusta, y por eso gustará cada vez más, cuanto más progrese por este camino”
"Expression seems to be the main characteristic in the singing of Mr. Genero, and that's why he is much liked."
---- I very much agree with the Oxford prof who pointed to me in this direction: we need studies of 'masculinity' and how the original performers created the role in the true sense of 'create'.
"Da voi lontan, in sconosciuta terra havvi un castel..."
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
Da voi lontan, in sconosciuta terra,
havvi un castel che ha nome Monsalvato;
là un sacro tempio una foresta serra,
di gemme senza pari e d’oro ornato;
ivi una coppa, che del cielo è dono
guardata è qual reliquia del Signor;
a lor che di virtù campioni sono,
un angiol la portò sull’ali d’or.
(Incisioni più note: AURELIANO PERTILE, MIGUEL FLETA, MARIO DEL MONACO- VDP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB9TjEjiszM
Da voi lontan, in sconosciuta terra,
havvi un castel che ha nome Monsalvato;
là un sacro tempio una foresta serra,
di gemme senza pari e d’oro ornato;
ivi una coppa, che del cielo è dono
guardata è qual reliquia del Signor;
a lor che di virtù campioni sono,
un angiol la portò sull’ali d’or.
(Incisioni più note: AURELIANO PERTILE, MIGUEL FLETA, MARIO DEL MONACO- VDP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB9TjEjiszM
Notes on tenor Fraschini, creator of five Verdi opera tenor roles
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
Born in Pavia, Fraschini studied in his native city before debuting there in 1837 as Tamas in Gaetano Donizetti's Gemma di Vergy.
He continued singing Donizetti, performing in Torquato Tasso in Bergamo in 1839 and in Marino Faliero at La Scala in 1840.
Beginning in that year he was engaged at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where he remained until 1853.
There he created roles in numerous operas by Giovanni Pacini, including La fidanzata corsa, La stella di Napoli, La regina di Cipro, Merope and Romilda di Provenza, and Faone in Saffò.
He also created Gerardo in Caterina Cornaro for Donizetti in 1844.
He sang in other Donizetti operas, too, including Linda di Chamounix, Maria di Rohan, La favorite, Poliuto, and Lucia di Lammermoor.
The force with which he delivered Edgardo's curse in the latter led to his nickname, "tenore della maledizione".[1]
----
An early tenore di forza, he created several Verdian roles, beginning with Zamoro in Alzira in 1845.
He was also the first Corrado in Il corsaro (1848), Arrigo in La battaglia di Legnano (1849), the title role in Stiffelio (1850), and Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera (1859).
He also sang in Oberto, Ernani, I Lombardi, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller, and Il trovatore.
1856 saw him singing Henri in Les vêpres siciliennes in Rome, and in 1858 he was Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra for Naples.
Internationally, too, he sang a good deal of Verdi: at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1847 where he took part in the first London performance of I due Foscari; in 1863 at Madrid, where he sang in La forza del destino; and the following year at the Théâtre Italien in Paris where appeared in both in both La traviata and Rigoletto.
Fraschini retired in 1873, singing his farewell as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia in Rome.
He died in Naples in 1887.
The opera house in Pavia is named for him.[2]
References
1.^ a b Warrack and West (1996)
2.^ Teatro Fraschini
Casaglia, Gherardo, "Fraschini" (in Italian), Almanacco Amadeus, 2005. Accessed 1 February 2010.
Teatro Fraschini, La storia del Teatro Fraschini (in Italian). Accessed 1 February 2010.
Warrack, John and West, Ewan (eds.), "Fraschini, Gaetano", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford University Press, 1996. Accessed via subscription 1 February 2010.
Born in Pavia, Fraschini studied in his native city before debuting there in 1837 as Tamas in Gaetano Donizetti's Gemma di Vergy.
He continued singing Donizetti, performing in Torquato Tasso in Bergamo in 1839 and in Marino Faliero at La Scala in 1840.
Beginning in that year he was engaged at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where he remained until 1853.
There he created roles in numerous operas by Giovanni Pacini, including La fidanzata corsa, La stella di Napoli, La regina di Cipro, Merope and Romilda di Provenza, and Faone in Saffò.
He also created Gerardo in Caterina Cornaro for Donizetti in 1844.
He sang in other Donizetti operas, too, including Linda di Chamounix, Maria di Rohan, La favorite, Poliuto, and Lucia di Lammermoor.
The force with which he delivered Edgardo's curse in the latter led to his nickname, "tenore della maledizione".[1]
----
An early tenore di forza, he created several Verdian roles, beginning with Zamoro in Alzira in 1845.
He was also the first Corrado in Il corsaro (1848), Arrigo in La battaglia di Legnano (1849), the title role in Stiffelio (1850), and Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera (1859).
He also sang in Oberto, Ernani, I Lombardi, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller, and Il trovatore.
1856 saw him singing Henri in Les vêpres siciliennes in Rome, and in 1858 he was Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra for Naples.
Internationally, too, he sang a good deal of Verdi: at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1847 where he took part in the first London performance of I due Foscari; in 1863 at Madrid, where he sang in La forza del destino; and the following year at the Théâtre Italien in Paris where appeared in both in both La traviata and Rigoletto.
Fraschini retired in 1873, singing his farewell as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia in Rome.
He died in Naples in 1887.
The opera house in Pavia is named for him.[2]
References
1.^ a b Warrack and West (1996)
2.^ Teatro Fraschini
Casaglia, Gherardo, "Fraschini" (in Italian), Almanacco Amadeus, 2005. Accessed 1 February 2010.
Teatro Fraschini, La storia del Teatro Fraschini (in Italian). Accessed 1 February 2010.
Warrack, John and West, Ewan (eds.), "Fraschini, Gaetano", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, Oxford University Press, 1996. Accessed via subscription 1 February 2010.
La rivedra nell'estasi
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
La rivedrà nell'estasi
Raggiante di pallore . . .
E qui sonar d'amore
La sua parola udrà.
O dolce notte, scendere
Tu puoi gemmata a festa:
Ma la mia stella è questa
Che il ciel non ha!)
La rivedrà nell'estasi
Raggiante di pallore . . .
E qui sonar d'amore
La sua parola udrà.
O dolce notte, scendere
Tu puoi gemmata a festa:
Ma la mia stella è questa
Che il ciel non ha!)
Testa adorata, created by Beduschi, 'of the Gayarre school'
by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
From online source:
"In 1894 Shaw speaks of de Lucia and Beduschi both as tenors 'of the Gayarre school, without the goat-bleat of its extreme disciples, and this comment gives the clue. Like Valero (and Francesco Vignas), Gayarre was taught by Melchiorre Vidal in Madrid. Vidal's pupil Rosina Storchio was also closely associated with verismo premieres. De Lucia, in Spain in the 1880s, had imbibed this example."
From online source:
"In 1894 Shaw speaks of de Lucia and Beduschi both as tenors 'of the Gayarre school, without the goat-bleat of its extreme disciples, and this comment gives the clue. Like Valero (and Francesco Vignas), Gayarre was taught by Melchiorre Vidal in Madrid. Vidal's pupil Rosina Storchio was also closely associated with verismo premieres. De Lucia, in Spain in the 1880s, had imbibed this example."
Italian Operatic Tenors A to Z
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Alois Burgstaller - Alois Burgstaller, was a German operatic tenor. Aloys Pennarini -Aloys Pennarini, also spelled Alois Pennarini, was born Aloys Federler on June 27, 1870 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Americo Sbigoli - Americo Sbigoli was an Italian tenor. More Topics (A).
Bocelli, is a multiple Classical Brit-winning and Grammy and Emmy nominated, Italian pop tenor and crossover artist.
Andrea Nozzari - Andrea Nozzari was an Italian tenor. Andreas Dippel - Andreas Dippel was a German-born operatic tenor and impressario who from 1908 to 1910 was the joint manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Andreas Karasiak - Andreas Karasiak is a German classical tenor in opera and concert. Andrew Kennedy (tenor) - Andrew Kennedy is an English tenor. Andrey Labinsky - Andrey Markovich Labinsky was a famous Russian tenor. André Turp - André Turp was a Canadian tenor, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. Angelo Badà - Angelo Badà was an Italian operatic tenor. Angelo Bendinelli - Angelo Bendinelli was an Italian tenor. Angelo Maria Amorevoli - Angelo Maria Amorevoli was a leading Italian tenor in Baroque opera. More Topics (A)...Anthony Dean Griffey - Anthony Dean Griffey is an American operatic tenor. Anthony Laciura - Anthony Laciura is an American operatic tenor, noted for his abilities as a comprimario. Antoine Trial - Antoine Trial was a French singer and actor. Anton Dermota - Kammersänger Anton Dermota was a Slovene tenor. Anton Raaff - Anton Raaff was a German tenor from Gelsdorf near Bonn. Anton Schott - Anton Schott was a German dramatic tenor. Antonello Palombi - Antonello Palombi is an Italian operatic tenor. Antonio Carangelo - Antonio Laudino Carangelo is an Italian operatic tenor. Antonio Cortis - Antonio Cortis was a Spanish tenor with an outstanding voice. Antonio Denzio - Antonio Denzio was an Italian impresario, tenor, and librettist. More Topics (A)...Antonio Giuglini - Antonio Giuglini was an Italian operatic tenor who during the last eight years of his life was one of the leading stars of the operatic scene in London. Antonio Paoli - Antonio Paoli was a Puerto Rican tenor. Armando Bini - Armando Bini was an Italian tenor. Armando Chin Yong - Armando Chin Yong is a Malaysian opera singer, a tenor with an international reputation. Arnold Azrikan - Arnold Grigorevich Azrikan was a Ukrainian and Russian operatic dramatic tenor. Aroldo Lindi - Aroldo Lindi, born Gustav Harald Lindau, was a Swedish operatic tenor who enjoyed an international career, appearing at La Scala and at Covent Garden from 1925. Arturo Chacón Cruz Audrius Rubežius - Audrius Rubežius is a Lithuanian tenor working with the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. Aureliano Pertile - Aureliano Pertile was an Italian lyric-dramatic tenor. Azat Abbasov
Barnolt was the stage name of Paul Fleuret, a French operatic tenor associated with the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
Barry Banks (tenor) - Barry Banks, Born in Stoke-on-Trent.
Barry Clark (singer) - Barry Clark is an English opera singer.
Barry Morell - Barry Morell was an American operatic tenor.
Barton McGuckin - Barton McGuckin was an Irish tenor singer of renown, who made his career principally in Britain with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, but also gained a wide success in oratorio and concert.
More Topics (B)...Basilio Basili - Basilio Basili was an Italian tenor and composer. Ben Davies (tenor) - Ben Davies was a Welsh tenor singer, who appeared in opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. Ben Heppner - Ben Heppner, CC is a Canadian tenor, specializing in opera and other classical works for voice. Benedikt Schack - Benedikt Schack was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Beniamino Gigli - Beniamino Gigli, was an Italian opera singer. More Topics (B)...Beno Blachut - Beno Blachut was a lauded Czech operatic tenor. Berle Sanford Rosenberg - Berle Sanford Rosenberg is an American operatic tenor and vocal coach. Bernardo de Muro - Bernardo De Muro was a Sardinian operatic tenor who became internationally successful. Bernd Aldenhoff - Bernd Aldenhoff was a German Heldentenor. Berthelier (singer) - Jean-François Berthelier was a French actor and singer born Panissières on 14 December 1830, died Paris on 29 September 1888. Björn Haugan - Björn Haugan was a Swedish born, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor. Blagoj Nacoski - Blagoj Nacoski, is a Macedonian tenor opera singer. Bonaventura Bottone - Bonaventura Bottone is an operatic tenor who has performed at many of the world's leading opera houses. Brent Barrett - Brent Barrett is an American actor and tenor who is mostly known for his work within American theatre. Browning Mummery (tenor) - Browning Mummery, was an Australian opera tenor and actor of the 1920s and '30s who achieved a considerable reputation in Europe as well as Australia. More Topics (B)...Bruce Ford (tenor) - Bruce Ford is an American operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and the bel canto repertory. Bruce Fowler (tenor) - Bruce Fowler is an American classical tenor who has had a major international performance career in operas and concerts since the early 1990s. Bruno Prevedi - Bruno Prevedi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Bulbul (singer) - Bulbul, born Murtuza Rza oglu Mammadov was a famous Soviet and Azerbaijani opera and folk music performer and one of the founders of vocal arts and national musical theatre in Azerbaijan. Bülent Bezdüz - Bülent Bezdüz, born in Ankara, Turkey, is a Grammy Award winning Turkish tenor.
Stegmann was a German tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, and composer.
Carl Stenborg - Carl Stenborg was a Swedish opera singer, actor, composer and theatre director.
Carl Tanner - Carl Tanner is an American operatic tenor.
Carlo Baucardé - Carlo Baucardé or Boucardé was an Italian operatic tenor who sang leading roles throughout Italy, as well as in London, Madrid, Paris, and New York.
Carlo Bergonzi - Carlo Bergonzi is an Italian operatic tenor.
More Topics (C)...Carlo Cossutta - Carlo Cossutta was a prominent Italian dramatic tenor who had a major international opera career that spanned from the mid 1950s through the late 1990s. Carlo Guasco - Carlo Guasco was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor who sang in Italian and other European opera houses from 1837 to 1853. Carlos Cosías - Carlos Cosías is a Spanish operatic tenor born in Barcelona, Spain. Cesare Valletti - Cesare Valletti was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. Chad Shelton - Chad Shelton is an American operatic tenor. More Topics (C)...Charles Anthony - Charles Anthony Caruso, better known by his stage name of Charles Anthony, is an American tenor noted for his portrayal of comprimario characters in opera. Charles Bressler - Charles Bressler was an American tenor. Charles Burles - Charles Burles is a French lyric tenor, primarily associated with the French repertory, both opera and operetta. Charles Castronovo - Charles Castronovo, is an American tenor. Charles Craig (tenor) - Charles James Craig was an English operatic tenor. Charles Dalmorès - Charles Dalmorès was a French tenor. Charles Friant - Auguste Charles Paul Friant, was a French tenor. Charles Goulding - Charles Goulding was an English operatic tenor best known for his performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the Gilbert and Sullivan repertory. Charles Hackett - Charles Hackett was an American tenor. Charles Kullman - Charles Kullman was an American tenor who enjoyed a wide-ranging career, both in Europe and America. More Topics (C)...Charles R. Adams - Charles R. Adams was an American opera singer and singing instructor. Chris Merritt - Chris Merritt is an opera singer. Christian Sturm - Christian Sturm is a German tenor. Christoph Genz - Christoph Genz is a German tenor in opera and concert. Christoph Prégardien - Christoph Prégardien is a German lyric tenor whose career is closely associated with the roles in Mozart operas, as well as performances of Lieder, oratorio roles, and Baroque music. Christopher Ventris - Christopher Ventris is a British tenor. Christos Stassinopoulos - The tenor Christos Stassinopoulos is an opera singer, recitalist and actor from Athens. Craig Campbell (tenor) - Robert Craig Campbell was a Canadian tenor who performed in operettas across Canada and the United States. César Vezzani - César Vezzani was a French/Corsican operatic tenor who became a leading exponent of French grand opera through several decades.
Barioni - Daniele Barioni is an Italian opera singer who had a prolific career during the 1950s through the 1970s.
Dano Raffanti - Dano Raffanti is an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian baroque and bel canto repertory.
Darren Keith Woods - Darren Keith Woods is an American opera director and operatic tenor.
David Devriès - David Devriès was a French operatic lyric tenor noted for his light, heady tone, and polished, nuanced phrasing.
David Gordon (tenor) - David Gordon, an internationally renowned concert and opera tenor, was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1947.
More Topics (D)...David Hillman - David Hillman was an English operatic tenor who sang with all the leading opera companies in the United Kingdom. David Hobson (tenor) - David Hobson, is an Australian opera singer. David Lloyd (tenor) - David George Lloyd was a Welsh singer. David Michael Schuster David Rendall (opera singer) - David Rendall is an English operatic tenor active from the 1970s to the present. More Topics (D)...Davis Cunningham - Davis Cunningham was an American tenor who had prominent career in operas, musicals, concerts, and on television from 1949 through 1973. Dennis McNeil - Dennis McNeil,, is an American operatic tenor, musical theater performer and concert singer. Dennis O'Neill - Dennis O'Neill CBE is a Welsh operatic tenor and recording artist. Dermot Troy - Dermot Troy was an Irish Lyric Tenor associated with the music of Mozart. Dino Borgioli - Dino Borgioli was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with Mozart, Rossini, and Donizetti roles. Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov - Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov was a leading Russian operatic tenor with a lyric voice and a bravura singing technique. Domenico Donzelli - Domenico Donzelli was an Italian tenor. Domenico Guardasoni - Domenico Guardasoni was an Italian tenor singer, opera producer and impresario. Domenico Reina - Domenico Reina was a Swiss bel canto tenor, notable for creating roles in the operas of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante and other Italian composers. Donald George - Donald George is an American operatic tenor. More Topics (D)...Donald Grobe - Donald Roth Grobe was an American lyric tenor who sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Donald Smith (tenor) - Donald Sydney Smith OBE was an Australian operatic tenor. Dénes Gulyás - Dénes Gulyás is a Hungarian tenor.
Bastidas is a Venezuelan tenor.
Edgar Evans (tenor) - Edgar Evans was a Welsh opera singer.
Edmond Clément - Edmond Clément was a French lyric tenor who earned an international reputation due to the polished artistry of his singing.
Edmond Vergnet - Edmond-Alphonse Vergnet was a French operatic tenor.
Edward Johnson (tenor) - Edward Patrick Johnson CBE was a Canadian operatic tenor who was billed outside North America as Edoardo Di Giovanni, and became director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
More Topics (E)...Emilio de Marchi - Emilio de Marchi was an Italian operatic tenor. Emilio Venturini - Emilio Venturini was an Italian operatic lyric tenor known for his portrayal of character roles. Enrico Caruso - Enrico Caruso was an Italian tenor with wide repertoire that ranged from lyric through to dramatic roles. Enrico Di Giuseppe - Enrico Di Giuseppe was a celebrated Italian-American operatic tenor who had an active performance career from the late 1950s through the 1990s. Enrico Tamberlik - Enrico Tamberlik was an Italian tenor who sang to great acclaim at Europe and America's leading opera venues. More Topics (E)...Enzo de Muro Lomanto - Enzo De Muro Lomanto was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric repertory. Eric Cutler - Eric Cutler is an American tenor notable for his performances of bel canto repertoire and Mozart operas in particular. Eric Tappy - Eric Tappy is a Swiss operatic tenor. Erik Schmedes - Erik Anton Julius Schmedes was an operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in operas by Richard Wagner. Ernest McChesney - Ernest McChesney was an American tenor who had an active singing career in operas, musicals, and concerts during the late 1920s through the early 1960s. Ernest van Dyck - Ernest van Dyck was a Belgian dramatic tenor. Ernesto Nicolini - Ernesto Nicolini was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. Ernesto Palacio - Ernesto Palacio is a Peruvian tenor, particularly associated with Rossini and Mozart roles. Ernst Haefliger - Ernst Haefliger was a Swiss tenor. Ernst Kozub - Ernst Kozub was a German tenor and opera singer. More Topics (E)...Ernst Kraus - Ernst Kraus was a German dramatic tenor. Eugene Conley - Eugene Conley was a celebrated American operatic tenor. Eugenio Fernandi - Eugenio Fernandi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with lyric and spinto roles. Evan Gorga - Evangelista Gennaro Gorga was an Italian lyric tenor.
Armiliato is an Italian tenor.
Fernando de la Mora (tenor) - Fernando de la Mora is a Mexican operatic tenor.
Fernando De Lucia - Fernando De Lucia was an Italian opera tenor and singing teacher who enjoyed an international career.
Fernando del Valle - Fernando del Valle is an American operatic tenor.
Ferruccio Tagliavini - Ferruccio Tagliavini was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s.
More Topics (F)...Flaviano Labò - Flaviano Labò was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with heroic roles of the Italian repertory. Florencio Constantino - Florencio Constantino was an opera tenor. Francesco Albanese - Francesco Albanese was a lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Francesco Demuro - Francesco Demuro, is an Italian operatic tenor. Francesco Dominici - Francesco Dominici was an Italian operatic tenor particualarly admired for his acting in comedic roles. More Topics (F)...Francesco Marconi - Francesco Marconi was an operatic tenor from Rome who enjoyed an important international career. Francesco Meli - Francesco Meli is an Italian operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto reportoire. Francesco Merli - Francesco Merli was an Italian opera singer, particularly associated with heavy roles such as Otello, Canio and Calaf. Francesco Rasi - Francesco Rasi was an Italian composer, singer, chitarrone player, and poet. Francesco Tamagno - Francesco Tamagno was an operatic tenor from Italy who sang with enormous success throughout Europe and America. Francisco Araiza - Francisco Araiza, is a Mexican operatic tenor. Franco Bonisolli - Franco Bonisolli was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, notably as Manrico and Calaf. Franco Corelli - Franco Corelli was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Franco Lo Giudice - Franco Lo Giudice was an Italian tenor who had a successful international opera career during the first half of the twentieth century. Frank Forest - Frank Forest was an American operatic tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the 1930s and 40s. More Topics (F)...Frank Kelley (tenor) - Frank Kelley is an internationally-acclaimed American tenor, who has performed in concert and in opera throughout North America and Europe. Frank Mullings - Frank Mullings was a leading English tenor with Sir Thomas Beecham's Beecham Opera Company and its successor, the British National Opera Company, during the 1910s and 1920s. Frank Ryan (tenor) - Frank Ryan was born in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland in October 1900 and moved to Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland at an early age, where his parents ran a victualling business. Franz Anton Spitzeder - Franz Anton Spitzeder was a German tenor and keyboard teacher. Franz Fehringer - Franz Fehringer was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with light lyric roles in the German, Italian, and French repertories. Franz Ferenczy - Franz Ferenczy was a nineteenth century German tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe between 1859-1880. Franz Gruber (tenor) - Franz Gruber was a German operatic tenor who had an active career in his native country and in Austria during the first half of the 20th century. Franz Nachbaur - Franz Nachbaur was a famous German opera tenor. Franz Völker - Franz Völker was a dramatic tenor who enjoyed a major European career. Frederick Jagel - Frederick Jagel was an American tenor, primarily active at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1930s and 1940s. More Topics (F)...Fritz Uhl - Fritz Uhl was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with Wagner roles. Fritz Windgassen - Fritz Windgassen was a German Heldentenor and teacher. Fritz Wunderlich - Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich was a German lyric tenor, born in Kusel in the Rhineland.
Carelli - Gabor Carelli was a Hungarian classical tenor who had an important career in operas and concerts in North America during the mid 20th century.
Gaetano Bardini - Gaetano Bardini is an Italian tenor.
Gaetano Crivelli - Gaetano Crivelli was a famous Italian tenor.
Gaetano Fraschini - Gaetano Fraschini was an Italian tenor who created many roles in 19th century operas including five by Giuseppe Verdi.
Galliano Masini - Galliano Masini was a leading Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the spinto roles of the Italian repertory.
More Topics (G)...Gari Glaysher - Gari Glaysher is a British operatic tenor and classical crossover singer. Gary Lakes - Gary Lakes is an American opera tenor. Georg Unger - Georg Unger was a German tenor most famous for playing Siegfried in Der Ring des Nibelungen written by Richard Wagner. George Perren - George Perren was an English tenor active in both concert and opera. George Rasely - George Rasely was an American tenor who had an active career in operas, concerts, and musicals during the first half of the 20th century. More Topics (G)...George Shirley - George Irving Shirley is a renowned tenor opera singer. Georges Thill - Georges Thill was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor. Georgi Vinogradov (tenor) - Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov, Honoured Artist of Russia, was a Russian tenor: a popular World War II singer on Radio Moscow, recording artist, and soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble. Gerald English - Gerald English is an English-born Australian-resident tenor. Gerhard Stolze - Gerhard Stolze was a German tenor. Gerhard Unger - Gerhard Unger is a German light tenor born in Bad Salzungen. Gert Potgieter (tenor) - Gerhardus Petrus "Gert" Potgieter, was a South African opera tenor and actor who had a great influence on Afrikaans culture. Giacinto Prandelli - Giacinto Prandelli was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoires. Giacomo Aragall - Jaume Aragall i Garriga better known as Giacomo Aragall is a Spanish Catalan tenor, born in Barcelona, Spain on 6 June 1939. Giacomo David - Giacomo David, was a leading Italian tenor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. More Topics (G)...Giacomo Lauri-Volpi - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was an Italian tenor with a lyric-dramatic voice of exceptional range and technical facility. Gianni Poggi - Gianni Poggi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Gianni Raimondi - Gianni Raimondi was an Italian lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Gilbert Duprez - Gilbert Duprez was a French tenor, singing teacher and minor composer who famously pioneered the delivery of the operatic high C from the chest. Gino Penno - Gino Penno was an Italian tenor, who enjoyed a short but brilliant career in opera in the 1950s. Gino Sinimberghi - Gino Sinimberghi was a tenor opera singer from Rome, Italy. Gioacchino Livigni - Gioacchino Lauro Li Vigni is a tenor opera singer who performs internationally. Giovanni Battista Rubini - Giovanni Battista Rubini was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. Giovanni Battista Verger - Giovanni Battista Verger was an Italian operatic tenor and impresario. Giovanni Breviario - Giovanni Breviario, was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with Italian dramatic roles. More Topics (G)...Giovanni David - Giovanni David was an Italian tenor particularly known for his roles in Rossini operas. Giovanni Malipiero - Giovanni Malipiero was an operatic tenor who enjoyed a prominent career on stage and on radio in his native Italy during the 1930s and '40s. Giovanni Martinelli - Giovanni Martinelli was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor. Giovanni Sbriglia - Giovanni Sbriglia, was an Italian tenor and prominent teacher of singing. Giovanni Valesi - Giovanni Valesi was a German tenor. Giovanni Zenatello - Giovanni Zenatello was an Italian opera singer. Giuliano Bernardi - Giuliano Bernardi was an Italian operatic baritone and tenor. Giuliano Ciannella - Giuliano Ciannella was an Italian operatic tenor who had a major international career from the mid 1970s through the late 1990s. Giulio Crimi - Giulio Crimi was an Italian operatic tenor. Giulio Gari - Giulio Gari was a versatile and internationally known tenor who performed on both the opera and concert stages. More Topics (G)...Giuseppe Anselmi - Giuseppe Anselmi was an Italian operatic tenor. Giuseppe Borgatti - Giuseppe Borgatti was an Italian dramatic tenor with an outstanding voice. Giuseppe Campora - Giuseppe Campora, was an Italian operatic tenor. Giuseppe Ciccimarra - Giuseppe Ciccimarra was an Italian tenor, closely associated with Rossini roles. Giuseppe Cremonini - Giuseppe Cremonini was an Italian operatic tenor who had a prominent opera career in Europe and the United States during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Giuseppe Di Stefano - Giuseppe Di Stefano was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the late 1940s until the early 1970s. Giuseppe Giacomini - Giuseppe Giacomini is an Italian dramatic tenor. Giuseppe Nessi - Giussepe Nessi was an Italian operatic tenor. Gordon Wry - Gordon Wry was a Canadian tenor and conductor. Graham Clark (tenor) - Graham Clark is an English opera tenor, mainly known for his character roles like Loge, Mime and the Captain. More Topics (G)...Grant Williams - Grant Williams was an American film actor and operatic tenor. Gregorio Babbi - Gregorio Babbi was an Italian operatic tenor. Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu - Wu Pak Chiu, was a prominent Chinese tenor who sang in Europe under the name of Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu. Gregory Kunde - Gregory Kunde is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. Gualtiero Negrini - Gualtiero Negrini is known mostly as an Italian-American tenor who has performed leading roles with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera and many others. Gustav Walter - Gustav Walter was a Bohemian operatic tenor who sang leading roles for more than 30 years at the Vienna Staatsoper in Austria. Gustáv Papp - Gustáv Papp is a Slovak operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1940s through the 1980s. Guy Bélanger - Guy Bélanger is a Canadian tenor, opera director, composer, and conductor. Guy de Mey - Guy de Mey is a Belgian classical tenor who has appeared in operas and concerts in Europe, the United States, Canada, Israel, and Japan. Gé Korsten - Gérard Korsten was a South African opera tenor and actor who had a great influence on Afrikaans culture. More Topics (G)...Gösta Winbergh - Gösta Winbergh was a Swedish tenor and Mozart admirer. Günther Treptow - Günther Treptow was a German operatic tenor, best known for Wagner roles.
Hopf was a German operatic tenor, one of the leading heldentenors of the immediate postwar period.
Harry Theyard - Harry Theyard, tenor, is a native of New Orleans and is a 1957 graduate of Loyola University of the South, where he studied under Dorothy Hulse, who was also the teacher of Audrey Schuh and Char...
Hasan Enami Olya - Hasan Enami Olya is an Iranian opera singer.
Hector Dupeyron - Hector Dupeyron was a French operatic tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe from 1887 through 1906.
Heddle Nash - Heddle Nash was an English lyric tenor who enjoyed an outstanding career in opera and oratorio during the 1920s, '30s and '40s.
More Topics (H)...Heinrich Knote - Heinrich Knote was an outstanding German dramatic tenor with an international reputation. Heinrich Kreuzer - Heinrich Kreuzer was a well-known Austrian Jewish opera singer. Heinrich Sontheim - Heinrich Sontheim, also known as Honas Bär Sontheimer, was a prominent late-19th-Century tenor and kammersänger based in Stuttgart, Germany. Heinrich Vogl - Heinrich Vogl was a German operatic heldentenor. Heinz Zednik - Heinz Zednik is an Austrian operatic tenor, closely associated with the character tenor roles of Wagner such as Mime and Loge and David. More Topics (H)...Helge Rosvaenge - Helge Rosvaenge, Helge Anton Rosenvinge Hansen, was a famous Danish operatic tenor whose career was centred on Germany and Austria, before, during and after World War II. Helmut Krebs - Helmut Krebs was a distinguished German operatic tenor, who sang a wide range of roles from baroque to contemporary works. Helmut Kretschmar - Helmut Kretschmar is a German classical tenor who spent most of his career performing in concerts and recitals with major orchestras and at important music festivals internationally. Henri Legay - Henri Legay was a French operatic tenor. Henry Price (tenor) - Henry Price is a well-known American operatic tenor, who was a pupil of the tenor Eugene Conley. Herbert Ernst Groh - Herbert Ernst Groh was a popular Swiss tenor. Hervé Niquet - Hervé Niquet is a French conductor, harpsichordist, tenor, and the director of Le Concert Spirituel, specializing in French Baroque music. Hippolyte Belhomme - Hippolyte-Adolphe Belhomme, was a prominent French bass or bass-baritone and long-term member of the Opéra-Comique company in Paris. Hipólito Lázaro - Hipólito Lázaro was a Spanish/Catalan opera singer. Howard Crook - Howard Crook is an American lyric tenor who has lived and worked in the Netherlands and France since the early 1980s. More Topics (H)...Hubert Marischka - Hubert Marischka, brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter. Hugh Talbot - Hugh Talbot was an Irish tenor and actor best known for creating, to universally bad reviews, the role of Frederic in the Gilbert and Sullivan hit The Pirates of Penzance in the New York pro... Hugues Cuénod - Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod is a Swiss tenor renowned in opera, operetta and song. Huseyngulu Sarabski - Huseyngulu Sarabski, born Huseyngulu Malik oglu Rzayev, was an Azerbaijani opera singer, composer, playwright, stage actor, theatre director, and musician.
Bostridge CBE is an acclaimed English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist.
Italo Campanini - Italo Campanini was a leading Italian operatic tenor, whose career reached its height in London in the 1870s and in New York in the 1880s and 1890s.
Italo Gardoni - Italo Gardoni was a leading Italian operatic tenore di grazia singer who had an international career during the second half of the 19th century.
Ivan Kozlovsky - Ivan Semyonovitch Kozlovsky was a Soviet lyric tenor of Ukrainian ethnicity, one of the greatest stars of Soviet opera, as well a producer and director of his own opera company, and longtime te...
Ivan Yershov - Ivan Vasiliyevitch Yershov or Ershov, born November 8, 1867 - died November 21, 1943, was a great Russian opera singer.
More Topics (I)...Ivo Žídek - Ivo Žídek was a celebrated Czech lyric tenor, known for his vivid portrayals of character roles in the operas of Smetana, Dvorák and Janáček.
Pottier - Jacques Pottier is a French operatic tenor who made many recordings during his career and was a Principal Tenor of the Opéra National de Paris.
Jacques Urlus - Jacques Urlus, was a Dutch dramatic tenor.
James Gilchrist (tenor) - James Gilchrist is a British operatic tenor.
James King (tenor) - James King was widely regarded as the finest American heldentenor of the post-war period.
James McCracken - James McCracken was an American operatic tenor.
More Topics (J)...James Melton - James Melton, was a popular singer in the 1920s and early 1930s who later began a career as an operatic singer when tenor voices went out of style in popular music around 1932-1935. James Stuart (opera director) - James F. Stuart was an American opera director and operatic tenor. James Taylor (tenor) - James Taylor is an American tenor, known for singing the Evangelist in works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Jan Kiepura - Jan Wiktor Kiepura was a Polish singer and actor. Jan Kobow - Jan Kobow is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied and Baroque opera. More Topics (J)...Jan Kyhle - Jan Kyhle is a Swedish opera and musical singer. Jan Nepomuk Maýr - Jan Nepomuk Maýr was a Czech operatic tenor, opera director, conductor, composer, and music educator. Jan Peerce - Jan Peerce was an American operatic tenor. Jasmin Bašić Jean de Reszke - Jean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw,, was a Polish tenor. Jean Elleviou - Jean Elleviou was a French operatic tenor, one of the most celebrated French singers of his time. Jean-Alexandre Talazac - Jean-Alexandre Talazac was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory. Jean-Paul Fouchécourt - Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is a French tenor, mostly as an opera singer. Jerry Hadley - Jerry Hadley was an American operatic tenor. Jess Thomas - Jess Thomas was a Wagnerian tenor. More Topics (J)...Jesús León - Jesús León is a Mexican operatic tenor. Johan Botha (tenor) - Johan Botha, born on August 19, 1965 in Rustenburg, South Africa, made his stage debut at the municipal theatre in Roodepoort as Max in Der Freischütz in 1989. Johann Joseph Nouseul - Johann Joseph Nouseul was an actor, singer, and theater manager of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Johann Valentin Adamberger - Johann Valentin Adamberger was a German tenor closely associated with the works of Mozart. John Aler - John Aler is an American lyric tenor known for his performances in concerts, recitals, and operas, Aler is particularly known for his interpretations of the works of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, ... John Alexander (tenor) - John Alexander was an American operatic tenor who had a substantial career during the 1950s through the 1980s. John Beard (tenor) - John Beard was an English tenor of the 18th century. John Coates (tenor) - John Coates was a leading English tenor, who sang in opera and oratorio and on the concert platform. John Duykers - John Duykers is a prominent American operatic tenor, known for his work in modern and contemporary opera. John Easterlin - John Easterlin is an American operatic tenor who has sung at many of the United States' leading opera houses. More Topics (J)...John Keyes - John Caius, also known as Johannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. John Mark Ainsley - John Mark Ainsley is an English lyric tenor. John McCollum - John McCollum is an American tenor who had an active singing career in operas, concerts, and recitals during the 1950s through the 1970s. John McCormack (tenor) - John McCormack, was a world-famous Irish tenor and recording artist, he has been considered the Ronan Keating of his time, celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repert... John McHugh (tenor) - John McHugh was a British operatic tenor known for his singing of ballads and romantic tunes and lyrics. John van Kesteren - John van Kesteren was a Dutch operatic tenor. Jon Garrison - Jon Garrison is a successful American operatic tenor who has been performing in locations around the world since 1965. Jon Robert Cart - Jon Robert Cart is an American operatic tenor noted for his "thrilling squillo in the Mario del Monaco mold." Jon Vickers - Jonathan Stewart Vickers, CC, known professionally as Jon Vickers, is a retired Canadian heldentenor. Jonas Kaufmann - Jonas Kaufmann is a lirico spinto tenor born in Munich, Germany. More Topics (J)...Josef Gostic - Josef Gostic was a Slovene operatic tenor. Josef Tichatschek - Josef Aloys Tichatschek, originally Tichaček, was a Bohemian opera singer highly regarded by Richard Wagner. Josef Traxel - Josef Traxel was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and the German repertory. Josef Witt - Kammersänger Josef Witt was a tenor who was a regular performer at the Vienna State Opera before WW II. His name is sometimes spelt Joseph Witt. Joseph Calleja - Joseph Calleja,, is a Maltese tenor. Joseph Carl Breil - Joseph Carl Breil was an American tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. Joseph Hislop - Joseph Hislop was a lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio and gave concerts around the world. Joseph Kaiser - Joseph Kaiser is a Canadian operatic tenor. Joseph Legros - Joseph Legros was a French singer and composer of the 18th century. Joseph O'Mara - Joseph O'Mara was an Irish opera singer of the Victorian era. More Topics (J)...Joseph Schmidt - Joseph Schmidt was a Jewish Romanian tenor and actor. Joseph Wilhelm Swoboda - Joseph Wilhelm Swoboda was a Czech operatic tenor, actor, and opera director. José Carreras - Josep Maria Carreras i Coll, better known as José Carreras, is a Catalan Spanish tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini. José Cura - José Cura is a prominent operatic tenor known for his intense and original interpretations of his characters, notably Verdi’s Otello and Saint-Saëns’ Samson, as well as for his unconventional an... José Dupuis - Joseph-Lambert Dupuis was a Belgian singer and actor. José Luccioni - José Luccioni was a French operatic tenor of Corsican origin. José Sosa Esquivel - José Sosa Esquivel was a Mexican tenor. Jozef Kundlák - Jozef Kundlák is a Slovak tenor. Juan Carlos Echeverry - Juan Carlos Echeverry is a Colombian operatic tenor. Juan Diego Flórez - Juan Diego Flórez is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. More Topics (J)...Juan Oncina - Juan Oncina was a Spanish tenor, particularly associated with Rossini and light Donizetti roles, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the 1950s. Julian Gavin - Julian Gavin is an Australian-born operatic tenor who has sung leading roles both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Julius Patzak - Julius Patzak was an Austrian tenor distinguished in operatic and concert work. Julián Gayarre - Sebastián Julián Gayarre Garjón, better known as Julián Gayarre, was a Spanish opera singer who created the role of Marcello in Donizetti's Il Duca d'Alba and Enzo in Ponchielli's La... Jussi Björling - Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling was a Swedish tenor. Jörg Dürmüller - Jörg Dürmüller is a Swiss classical tenor in concert and opera.
Wilson is an American jazz, R&B, and classical singer, and vocal coach.
Karel Burian - Karel Burian was a renowned Czech operatic tenor who had an active international career spanning the 1890s to the 1920s.
Karel Fiala - Karel Fiala is a Czech operatic tenor and film actor.
Karel Hruška - Karel Hruška was a Czech tenor, radio personality, and actor of the stage and film.
Karl Aagard Østvig - Karl Aagaard Østvig was a Norwegian operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher.
More Topics (K)...Karl Erb - Karl Erb was a German tenor vocalist who made his career first in opera and then in oratorio and lieder recital. Karl Terkal - Karl Terkal was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with lyric roles of the German repertory, both opera and operetta. Karl Ziegler (tenor) - Karl Ziegler was an operatic tenor, who was active in Germany and Austria during the first half of the 20th century. Kenneth Neate - Kenneth Neate was a renowned Australian operatic and concert tenor, opera producer and singing teacher. Klaus Florian Vogt - Klaus Florian Vogt is a German operatic tenor known for parts of Richard Wagner. More Topics (K)...Kristján Jóhannsson - Kristján Jóhannsson is an Icelandic operatic tenor particularly known for his performances in Verdian roles, and especially as Radames in Aida.
Kozma is an Hungarian operatic tenor, particularly associated with lyric Italian roles, baroque operas and oratorios.
Lamberto Bergamini - Lamberto Bergamini was an Italian tenor from Pisa.
Lando Bartolini - Lando Bartolini is an Italian tenor.
Lauritz Melchior - Lauritz Melchior was a Danish and later American opera singer.
Lawrence Brownlee - Lawrence Brownlee is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire.
More Topics (L)...Leo Marian Vodička - Leo Marian Vodička is a Czech operatic tenor who has had an active international career since the early 1970s. Leo Slezak - Leo Slezak was a world-famous tenor. Leonard Labatt - Leonard Labatt was a Swedish dramatic tenor. Leonid Sobinov - Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov was a Russian and Soviet opera singer, and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. Libero de Luca - Libero de Luca is a Swiss lyric tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory. More Topics (L)...Lionello Cecil - Lionello Cecil was an Australian operatic tenor. Loren Driscoll - Loren Driscoll was an American tenor who had an active international career from the 1950s through the mid 1980s. Lorenz Fehenberger - Lorenz Fehenberger was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with the German and Italian repertories. Lorenzo Salvi - Lorenzo Salvi was an Italian operatic tenor who had a major international opera career during the nineteenth century. Louis Danto - Louis Harry Danto was a lyric tenor and cantor who has won acclaim across the world for his concert appearances and recordings of Italian, Russian, and French opera repertoire, as well as in the... Louis Gaulard Dumesny - Dumesnil was a French operatic tenor. Louis Guéymard - Louis Guéymard was a French operatic tenor. Luca Botta - Luca Botta was an Italian operatic tenor. Luciano Pavarotti - Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all... Lucien Muratore - Lucien Muratore was a French actor and operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory. More Topics (L)...Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German heldentenor and the creator of the role of Tristan in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde. Ludwig Suthaus - Ludwig Suthaus was a German opera singer, who was born in Cologne and died in West Berlin. Luigi Alva - Luis Ernesto Alva Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva is a Peruvian operatic tenor, active in the third quarter of the 20th century. Luigi Antinori - Luigi Antinori was born at Bologna about 1697. Luigi Bolis - Luigi Bolis was an Italian tenor. Luigi Infantino - Luigi Infantino was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric Italian and French repertories. Luigi Marini - Luigi Marini, was an Italian lyric tenor. Luis Lima - Luis Lima is an Argentine operatic tenor, who studied in Buenos Aires under Carlos Guichandut and in Sicily under Gina Cigna. Lutfiyar Imanov - Lutfiyar Muslum oglu Imanov was an Azerbaijani opera singer. Lutz-Michael Harder - Lutz-Michael Harder is a German lyric tenor known mostly for his interpretation of Mozart opera roles and as a baroque concert soloist. More Topics (L)...Léon Escalais - Léon Escalaïs was a prominent Gallic tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian heroic roles. Léopold Simoneau - Léopold Simoneau, CC, CQ was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time.
Lang was a Swiss chazan and singer.
Marcel Wittrisch - Marcel Wittrisch was a popular German operatic tenor.
Marcello Giordani - Marcello Giordani is an Italian operatic tenor who has sung leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States.
Marcelo Álvarez - Marcelo Raúl Álvarez,, is an Argentine lyric tenor who achieved international success starting in the mid-1990s.
Marco Bordogni - Giulio Marco Bordogni, usually called Marco Bordogni, was an Italian operatic tenor and singing teacher of great popularity and success, whose mature career was based in Paris.
More Topics (M)...Mario (tenor) - Mario was an Italian opera singer. Mario del Monaco - Mario Del Monaco was an Italian tenor and is regarded by his admirers as being one of the greatest dramatic tenors of the 20th Century. Mario Filippeschi - Mario Filippeschi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, renowned for his ringing upper register. Mario Frangoulis - Mario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song, "Vincerò, Perderò." Mark Lundberg - Mark Lundberg was an American opera singer who had an active international career from the 1980s up until his sudden death in 2008. More Topics (M)...Mark Nicolson - American tenor, Mark Nicolson is an international opera singer and voice teacher in New York City. Mark Padmore - Mark Padmore is a British tenor appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera. Martin Dillon (musician) - Martin Dillon was a United States born musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Matteo Babini - Matteo Antonio Babini, also known by the family name of Babbini, was a leading Italian tenor of the late 18th-century and a teacher of singing and stage art. Matthew Polenzani - Matthew Polenzani is an American lyric tenor, born in Evanston, Illinois. Max Alvary - Max Alvary, originally Maximilian Achenbach, was a German operatic tenor. Max Hansen (tenor) - Max Hansen was a Danish singer known as 'The Little Caruso', also a cabaret artist, actor and comedian. Max Lorenz (tenor) - Max Lorenz was a German heroic tenor famous for Wagner roles. Max Meili - Max Meili, a Swiss tenor, was born 11 December 1899 in Winterthur and died 17 March 1970 in Zürich, Switzerland. Michael Kelly (tenor) - Michael Kelly was an Irish actor, singer, composer and theatrical manager who made an international career of importance in musical history. More Topics (M)...Michael Pollock (tenor) - Michael Pollock was an American operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher. Michael Schade - Michael Schade is a Canadian operatic tenor, who was born in Geneva and raised in Germany and Canada. Michael Sylvester - Michael Lane Sylvester was a lyric spinto operatic tenor. Michel Sénéchal - Michel Sénéchal is a French tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian character roles in a repertory ranging from Baroque to contemporary works. Miguel Fleta - Miguel Burró Fleta was a Spanish operatic tenor. Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhaylov - Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhaylov - was a well known Russian opera singer. Miroslav Dvorský - Miroslav Dvorský is a Slovak operatic tenor of international renown who has had an active career since the early 1980s. Mirto Picchi - Mirto Picchi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, and with contemporary works. Murray Dickie - Murray Dickie was a Scottish tenor opera singer and director, who established his career in England, Austria and Italy during the 1950s. Mécène Marié de l'Isle - Claude-Marie-Mécène Marié de l'Isle was a French musician and opera singer.
Granner is an American tenor who performs in opera and oratorio, as well as more popular genres.
Neil Mackie - Neil Mackie CBE, CStJ, FRSE, FRCM, FRSAMD is a Scottish classical tenor and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
Neil Shicoff - Neil Shicoff is an American opera singer known for his lyric tenor singing and his dramatic, emotional acting.
Niall Morris - Niall Morris, born in Dublin, is a well-known Irish classical singer.
Nico Castel - Nico Castel is a comprimario tenor and well-known language and diction coach, as well as a prolific translator of libretti and writer of books on singing diction.
More Topics (N)...Nicola Filacuridi - Nicola Filacuridi was an Egyptian-born operatic tenor of Greek origin, who had an illustrious career in Italy in the 1950s. Nicola Monti - Nicola Monti is an Italian opera singer, one of the leading tenori di grazia of the 1950s. Nicola Tacchinardi - Nicola Tacchinardi, was an Italian cellist and tenor, and later voice teacher. Nicolae Leonard - Nicolae Leonard was a Romanian opera tenor, nicknamed "Prince of the operetta". Nicolai Gedda - The Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda is a famous opera singer and recitalist. More Topics (N)...Nikolay and Medea Figner - Nikolay Figner, lyric tenor, and Medea Figner, mezzo-soprano, later soprano, were a renowned husband-and-wife team of opera singers active in Russia between 1889 and 1904. Nikolay Baskov - Nikolay Victorovich Baskov is a popular Russian tenor singer. Nino Martini - Nino Martini was an Italian operatic tenor and actor. Nolan Van Way - Nolan Van Way is an American operatic baritone and tenor with a successful singing career in opera and Broadway musicals that spanned half a century. Norman Kelley - Norman Kelley was an American operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1940s through the 1970s.
Chishko was a Ukrainian and Russian Soviet composer and singer.
Orville Harrold - Orville Harrold was an American tenor.
Panzacchi was an Italian operatic tenor, and the first Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo re di Creta.
Patrick Power (tenor) - Patrick Power,, is a New Zealand tenor.
Paul Agnew - Paul Agnew is a Scottish operatic tenor.
Paul Althouse - Paul Althouse was an American opera singer.
Paul Kandel - Paul Kandel is an American musical theatre actor and tenor singer best known for his work as the Gypsy leader Clopin in the 1996 Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
More Topics (P)...Paul Kuen - Paul Kuen was a German operatic tenor particularly known for his portrayals of character roles such as Mime in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Paul Kuhn - Paul Kuhn was a German operatic tenor who specialized in the buffo repertoire. Paul Lhérie - Paul Lhérie, born Paris October 8, 1844, died Paris October 17, 1937 was a French tenor, most famous for creating the role of Don José in Bizet's Carmen. Pavol Gábor - Pavol Gábor was a Slovak operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1960s through the 1990s. Peter Anders (tenor) - Peter Anders was a German operatic tenor who sang a wide range of parts in the German, Italian, and French repertories. More Topics (P)...Peter Auty - Peter Auty is an English operatic tenor who has worked with most of the major opera companies in Britain and a number of companies in continental Europe. Peter Butterfield - Peter Butterfield is a Canadian conductor and classical tenor. Peter Dvorský - Peter Dvorský is a Slovak operatic tenor. Peter Hofmann Peter Klein (tenor) - Peter Klein was a German lyric and light-operatic tenor. Peter Schreier - Peter Schreier is a German tenor and conductor. Peter Seiffert - Peter Seiffert is a German tenor. Philip Langridge - Philip Gordon Langridge CBE was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio. Philip Sheffield - Philip Sheffield is a British opera singer tenor who has performed all over the world including Royal Opera, London, La Scala Milan and La Monnaie Brussels among others. Pier Miranda Ferraro - Pier Miranda Ferraro was an Italian operatic tenor who had an active international opera career from 1951 through 1981. More Topics (P)...Piero de Palma - Piero de Palma is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles. Pierre Duval - Pierre Duval is a French-Canadian operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1960s and 1970s. Pierre Gaveaux - Pierre Gaveaux was a French operatic tenor and composer, notable for creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée and for composing the first operatic version of the story that later foun... Pierre Jélyotte - Pierre Jélyotte was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with works by Rameau, Lully, Campra, and Destouches. Pierre-Aurèle Asselin - Pierre-Aurèle Asselin was a French Canadian furrier and tenor singer. Pietro Ballo - Pietro Ballo - Italian operatic singer, born October 2, 1952 in Palermo. Piotr Beczała - Piotr Beczała is a Polish operatic tenor. Plácido Domingo - José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE, better known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughou... Powell Lloyd - Harold Powell Lloyd was an English operatic tenor and opera director and producer. Pyotr Slovtsov - Pyotr Ivanovich Slovtsov was a famous Russian tenor.
Raffaele Mirate - Raffaele Mirate was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor who had an active career from the 1830s through the 1860s.
Ragnar Ulfung - Ragnar Sigurd Ulfung is a Norweigan operatic tenor.
Ramón Vargas - Ramón Vargas is an award-winning Mexican operatic tenor.
Ramón Vinay - Ramón Vinay was a famous Chilean operatic tenor with a powerful, dramatic voice.
Raoul Jobin - Raoul Jobin, CC was a French-Canadian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory.
More Topics (R)...Raúl Giménez - Raúl Giménez is an Argentinian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian bel canto repertory, in which he is considered one of the best exponent in recent years. Reed Miller - Reed Miller was an American tenor who had an active career as a concert and oratorio singer during the first quarter of the 20th century. Reiner Goldberg - Reiner Goldberg is a German opera singer. Renato Cioni - Renato Cioni is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Renato Zanelli - Renato Zanelli was a Chilean operatic baritone and later tenor, particularly associated with heroic Italian and German roles, notably Verdi's Otello. More Topics (R)...René Kollo - René Kollo is a German tenor. René Maison - René Maison was a prominent Belgian operatic tenor, particularly associated with heroic roles of the French, Italian and German repertories. Riccardo Martin - Riccardo Martin was an American tenor. Richard Bruno Heydrich - Richard Bruno Heydrich was a German opera singer, and composer. Richard Cassilly Richard Crooks - Richard Alexander Crooks was an American tenor and a leading singer at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Richard Holm (tenor) - Richard Holm was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart, though he sang a wide range of roles. Richard Leech (tenor) - Richard Leech is an American operatic tenor, recipient of the Richard Tucker Award in 1988, and particularly associated with lyric roles of the Italian and French repertories. Richard Margison - Richard Charles Margison, OC is a Canadian operatic tenor. Richard Tauber - Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. More Topics (R)...Richard Troxell - Richard Troxell is a United States operatic tenor who hails from Thurmont, Maryland. Richard Tucker - Richard Tucker was an American operatic tenor. Richard Verreau - Richard Verreau, OC, OQ was a French-Canadian operatic tenor, particularly associated to the French and Italian repertories. Richard Versalle - Richard Versalle was an American operatic tenor who had an international career including performances at the Bayreuth Festival and the Vienna State Opera. Robert Breault - Robert Breault is an American operatic tenor. Robert Brubaker (tenor) - Robert Brubaker is an American operatic tenor. Robert Dean Smith - Robert Dean Smith is an American operatic tenor. Robert Ilosfalvy - Róbert Ilosfalvy was a Hungarian operatic tenor; he possessed a voice of lyric grace and dramatic power enabling him to sing a wide range of roles in the Italian, German, and French repertories. Robert Moulson - Robert Moulson was an American classical tenor who had an active international career in operas and concerts from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Robert Nagy - Robert Nagy was an American operatic tenor who had a lengthy and fruitful association with the Metropolitan Opera that lasted for three decades. More Topics (R)...Robert Rounseville - Robert Rounseville was an American tenor, who appeared in opera, operetta, and Broadway musicals. Robert Tear - Robert Tear CBE is a Welsh tenor and conductor. Roberto Alagna - Roberto Alagna is a French operatic tenor of Sicilian descent. Roberto Stagno - Roberto Stagno, was a prominent Italian operatic tenor. Robin Donald - Robin Donald Smith, who appeared professionally as Robin Donald, is an Australian operatic tenor. Rockland Osgood - Rockland Osgood is a contemporary American lyric tenor who has distinguished himself in a wide variety of musical idioms from the Baroque to the latest in Contemporary compositions. Rockwell Blake - Rockwell Blake is an American operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in Rossini operas. Roger Doucet - Roger Doucet, CM was a Canadian tenor best known for singing the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada", on televised games of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, and Montreal Expos during... Rolando Villazón - Emilio Rolando Villazón Mauleón, is a Mexican-born tenor who settled in France and in 2007 became a French citizen. Ronald Naldi - Ronald Naldi is an American lyric tenor who has performed on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arena di Verona, L'Opéra Français, Salzburger Landestheater, and New Je... More Topics (R)...Rosario La Spina - Rosario La Spina is an Australian operatic tenor who has had an active international career since the early 2000s. Roy Cornelius Smith - Roy Cornelius Smith is an American operatic tenor, from Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Rubén Domínguez - Rubén Domínguez is a Venezuelan lirico-spinto tenor. Rudolf Christ - Rudolf Christ was an Austrian tenor concert and opera singer. Rudolf Schock - Rudolf Johann Schock was a German tenor.
Salvatore Fisichella - Salvatore Fisichella is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas, especially those of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini.
Salvatore Licitra - Salvatore Licitra is an Italian tenor.
Salvatore Papaccio - Salvatore Papaccio was a tenor and an exponent of Canzone Napoletana.
Sebastian Feiersinger - Sebastian Feiersinger was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the German repertory.
Sergei Lemeshev - Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev was a Soviet operatic lyric tenor.
More Topics (S)...Sergej Larin - Sergej Larin or was one of a number of operatic tenors from the former Soviet Union to achieve success in the West. Set Svanholm - Set Svanholm was a Swedish operatic tenor, considered the leading Tristan and Siegfried of the first decade following World War II. Siegfried Jerusalem - Siegfried Jerusalem is a German operatic tenor. Simon O'Neill - Simon O'Neill is a New Zealand-born operatic tenor. Simon-Max - Nicolas-Marie Simon Simon-Max, born Reims in 1852, died 1923, was a French tenor, mainly active in Paris in the field of opera-bouffe. More Topics (S)...Sims Reeves - John Sims Reeves, usually called simply Sims Reeves, was the foremost English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist of the mid-Victorian era. Siphiwo Ntshebe - Siphiwo Ntshebe was a South African tenor opera singer. Stefan Zucker - Stefan Zucker is an American singer, expert on Italian opera and self-described "opera fanatic." Stephen Costello - Stephen Costello is an American operatic tenor and a recipient of the 2009 Richard Tucker Award. Stephen Gould (tenor) - Stephen Gould is an American heldentenor, born in Virginia. Stephen Mark Brown - Stephen Mark Brown is an internationally known opera singer. Steuart Wilson - Sir James Steuart Wilson was a tenor singer and musical administrator. Stig Fogh Andersen - Stig Fogh Andersen is a Danish operatic tenor. Stuart Burrows - Stuart Burrows - OBE is a Welsh operatic tenor. Stuart Howe - Stuart Howe is an operatic tenor born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. More Topics (S)...Sándor Kónya - Sándor Kónya was an Hungarian tenor, particularly associated with German and Italian roles, especially Lohengrin and Calaf.
Ichihara is a Japanese opera singer, who sings as a tenor, primarily in Verdi roles.
Theo Altmeyer - Theo Altmeyer was a German classical tenor.
Thiago Arancam - Thiago Arancam is an Italian-Brazilian lirico spinto tenor.
Thomas Edmonds (tenor) - Thomas Edmonds,, is an Australian singer who was born in South Australia, Australia.
Thomas Hayward (tenor) - Thomas Hayward was an American operatic tenor of note.
More Topics (T)...Thomas Lowe (tenor) - Thomas Lowe was an English tenor and actor. Thomas Round - Thomas Round is a retired English opera singer and actor, best known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas and in grand opera. Tibor Kelen - Tibor Kelen was a Hungarian singer, widely regarded as one of the very greatest operatic tenors of his country if not - for a limited time - world over. Ticho Parly - Ticho Parly was a Danish Heldentenor who sang leading roles in most of the major opera houses of Europe as well as the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera, where he debuted in 1966 a... Tino Folgar - Tino Folgar was a Spanish operatic tenor, primarily active in Spain and Italy. More Topics (T)...Tito Beltrán - Ernesto Beltrán, better known as Tito Beltrán, is a Chilean-Swedish tenor. Tito Schipa - Tito Schipa was an Italian tenor. Tomislav Mužek - Tomislav Mužek is a Croatian tenor and opera singer. Tommy Rall - Thomas Edward "Tommy" Rall is an American ballet dancer, tap dancer and acrobatic dancer who was a prominent featured player in 1950s musical comedies. Tony Poncet - Tony Poncet was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with heroic roles of the French and Italian repertoire. Topi Lehtipuu - Topi Lehtipuu is a Finnish operatic tenor. Torsten Ralf - Torsten Ralf, was a Swedish operatic tenor, particularly associated with Wagner and Strauss roles, one of the leading dramatic tenors of the inter-war period. Tudor Davies - Tudor Davies was a Welsh tenor.
Adamberger, also known by his Italian name Adamonti, was a German operatic tenor.
Vasco Campagnano - Vasco Campagnano was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.
Victor Capoul - Joseph Victor Amédée Capoul, born in Toulouse on 27 February 1839 and died in Pujaudran on 18 February 1924, was a French operatic tenor with a lyric voice and a graceful singing style.
Victor Warot - Victor Alexandre Warot was a Belgian opera singer.
Viktor Selyavin - Viktor Alekseyevich Selyavin Виктор Алексеевич Селявин was a leading tenor of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.
More Topics (V)...Vilhelm Herold - Vilhelm Christoffer Herold was an operatic tenor, voice teacher and theatre director. Vincenzo La Scola - Vincenzo La Scola is an Italian tenor who has had a highly successful international opera career for more than 25 years. Virgilijus Noreika - Virgilijus Kęstutis Noreika is a Lithuanian tenor. Vittorio Grigolo - Vittorio Grigolo is an Italian singer. Vladimir Atlantov - Vladimir Andreyevich Atlantov was born February 19, 1939 in Leningrad. More Topics (V)...Vladimir Galouzine - Vladimir Galouzine is a Russian tenor. Vladimir Rosing - Vladimir Sergeyevich Rosing, aka Val Rosing, was a Russian-born operatic tenor and stage director who spent most of his professional career in England and the United States. Volker Bengl - Volker Bengl is a German tenor, born in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland.
Anderson was a Canadian composer, choir director, tenor, and voice teacher of English birth.
Waldemar Kmentt - Waldemar Kmentt is an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the German repertory, both opera and operetta.
Walter Carringer - Walter Carringer is an American classical tenor who had an active career in operas, concerts, and recitals during the 1950s and 1960s.
Walter Midgley - Walter Midgley was an English operatic tenor who sang leading roles at the Royal Opera House and elsewhere from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Walter Widdop - Walter Widdop was a British operatic tenor of exceptional power and technical skill who is best remembered today for his outstanding Wagnerian performances.
More Topics (W)...Walther Ludwig - Walther Ludwig was a German operatic lyric tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and Schubert lieder. Warren Mok - Warren Mok, a world-renowned Hong Kong tenor, has performed many leading roles since his European debut in 1987 at the Deutsche Opera Berlin. Wilhelm Elsner - Wilhelm Elsner was a German operatic tenor who had an active international career from 1889 to 1903. William Cochran (tenor) - William Cochran was born on June 23, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio, and is an internationally-noted Heldentenor. William Diard - William Diard was an American operatic tenor. More Topics (W)...William Lewis (tenor) - William L. Lewis is an American operatic tenor and academic. William Martin (tenor) - William Martin was an American classical tenor. William Matteuzzi - William Matteuzzi is an Italian operatic tenor renowned for his impressive vocal range and prominent upper register, reaching a high F in full voice., which enabled him to participate in the rec... William Pell - William Pell was an American opera singer who had a major international career during the 1980s and 1990s. William Zakariasen - William Zakariasen was an American operatic tenor and music critic. Wolfgang Windgassen - Wolfgang Windgassen was a tenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas.
YFujiwara was a Japanese tenor singer.
Woolley was a Canadian tenor, actor, composer, and music educator of Haitian birth.
Štefan Hoza - Štefan Hoza was a Slovak operatic tenor, actor, librettist, educator, music publicist and historian.Margita - Štefan Margita is a Slovak opera singer who has had an active international career since 1981.
Maldybaev was a Kyrgyz composer, actor, and operatic tenor singer.
Montaubry, was a French musician and operatic tenor, active in Paris; later a theatre director.
Kraus is a German tenor in opera and concert, known for singing the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Krössing was a Czech operatic tenor, stage director, and actor of both the stage and film.
Bassi was an Italian composer and operatic tenor.
Nourrit was a French operatic tenor, librettist, and composer.
Hushi is an Albanian tenor from Kavajë.
Schiøtz was a Danish tenor who was considered one of Europe's leading Lieder singer of post World War II, and later baritone.
Bennett is an American lyric tenor known mostly for his performances in concert and oratorio work.
Oke is a British tenor. Albert Lance - Albert Lance is a French tenor of Australian origin, based in France from the mid 1950s onwards, where he enjoyed a highly successful career.
Niemann was a leading German tenor opera singer especially associated with the operas of Richard Wagner.
Reiss was a German operatic tenor who had a prolific career in Europe and the United States during the first third of the twentieth century.
Remedios is a British former operatic tenor, especially noted for his interpretations of Wagner's heldentenor roles.
Swoboda was a German operatic tenor, actor, and opera director.
Swoboda was a German operatic tenor, actor, and opera director. Aleksei Maslennikov (tenor) - Aleksei Dmitrievitch Maslennikov Масленников Алексей Дмитриевич is a Russian tenor.
Bonci was an Italian lyric tenor known for his association with the bel canto repertoire.
Safina is an Italian operatic tenor.
Paolis - Alessio De Paolis was an Italian operatic tenor who specialized in character roles.
Alexander Bantyshev - Bantyshev, Alexander Olimpievich was a famous Russian tenor opera singer. Alexander Dodonov - Alexander Mikhailovich Dodonov was a Russian opera singer. Alexandrov Ensemble soloists Alexey Kudrya - Alexey Kudrya is a rising tenor star from Russia. Alfred Piccaver - Alfred Piccaver in Vienna, was a British-American operatic tenor.
Kraus-Trujillo was a distinguished Spanish tenor of partly Austrian descent, particularly known for the artistry he brought to opera's bel canto roles.
Alois Burgstaller - Alois Burgstaller, was a German operatic tenor. Aloys Pennarini -Aloys Pennarini, also spelled Alois Pennarini, was born Aloys Federler on June 27, 1870 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Americo Sbigoli - Americo Sbigoli was an Italian tenor. More Topics (A).
Bocelli, is a multiple Classical Brit-winning and Grammy and Emmy nominated, Italian pop tenor and crossover artist.
Andrea Nozzari - Andrea Nozzari was an Italian tenor. Andreas Dippel - Andreas Dippel was a German-born operatic tenor and impressario who from 1908 to 1910 was the joint manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera. Andreas Karasiak - Andreas Karasiak is a German classical tenor in opera and concert. Andrew Kennedy (tenor) - Andrew Kennedy is an English tenor. Andrey Labinsky - Andrey Markovich Labinsky was a famous Russian tenor. André Turp - André Turp was a Canadian tenor, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. Angelo Badà - Angelo Badà was an Italian operatic tenor. Angelo Bendinelli - Angelo Bendinelli was an Italian tenor. Angelo Maria Amorevoli - Angelo Maria Amorevoli was a leading Italian tenor in Baroque opera. More Topics (A)...Anthony Dean Griffey - Anthony Dean Griffey is an American operatic tenor. Anthony Laciura - Anthony Laciura is an American operatic tenor, noted for his abilities as a comprimario. Antoine Trial - Antoine Trial was a French singer and actor. Anton Dermota - Kammersänger Anton Dermota was a Slovene tenor. Anton Raaff - Anton Raaff was a German tenor from Gelsdorf near Bonn. Anton Schott - Anton Schott was a German dramatic tenor. Antonello Palombi - Antonello Palombi is an Italian operatic tenor. Antonio Carangelo - Antonio Laudino Carangelo is an Italian operatic tenor. Antonio Cortis - Antonio Cortis was a Spanish tenor with an outstanding voice. Antonio Denzio - Antonio Denzio was an Italian impresario, tenor, and librettist. More Topics (A)...Antonio Giuglini - Antonio Giuglini was an Italian operatic tenor who during the last eight years of his life was one of the leading stars of the operatic scene in London. Antonio Paoli - Antonio Paoli was a Puerto Rican tenor. Armando Bini - Armando Bini was an Italian tenor. Armando Chin Yong - Armando Chin Yong is a Malaysian opera singer, a tenor with an international reputation. Arnold Azrikan - Arnold Grigorevich Azrikan was a Ukrainian and Russian operatic dramatic tenor. Aroldo Lindi - Aroldo Lindi, born Gustav Harald Lindau, was a Swedish operatic tenor who enjoyed an international career, appearing at La Scala and at Covent Garden from 1925. Arturo Chacón Cruz Audrius Rubežius - Audrius Rubežius is a Lithuanian tenor working with the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre. Aureliano Pertile - Aureliano Pertile was an Italian lyric-dramatic tenor. Azat Abbasov
Barnolt was the stage name of Paul Fleuret, a French operatic tenor associated with the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
Barry Banks (tenor) - Barry Banks, Born in Stoke-on-Trent.
Barry Clark (singer) - Barry Clark is an English opera singer.
Barry Morell - Barry Morell was an American operatic tenor.
Barton McGuckin - Barton McGuckin was an Irish tenor singer of renown, who made his career principally in Britain with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, but also gained a wide success in oratorio and concert.
More Topics (B)...Basilio Basili - Basilio Basili was an Italian tenor and composer. Ben Davies (tenor) - Ben Davies was a Welsh tenor singer, who appeared in opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. Ben Heppner - Ben Heppner, CC is a Canadian tenor, specializing in opera and other classical works for voice. Benedikt Schack - Benedikt Schack was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. Beniamino Gigli - Beniamino Gigli, was an Italian opera singer. More Topics (B)...Beno Blachut - Beno Blachut was a lauded Czech operatic tenor. Berle Sanford Rosenberg - Berle Sanford Rosenberg is an American operatic tenor and vocal coach. Bernardo de Muro - Bernardo De Muro was a Sardinian operatic tenor who became internationally successful. Bernd Aldenhoff - Bernd Aldenhoff was a German Heldentenor. Berthelier (singer) - Jean-François Berthelier was a French actor and singer born Panissières on 14 December 1830, died Paris on 29 September 1888. Björn Haugan - Björn Haugan was a Swedish born, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor. Blagoj Nacoski - Blagoj Nacoski, is a Macedonian tenor opera singer. Bonaventura Bottone - Bonaventura Bottone is an operatic tenor who has performed at many of the world's leading opera houses. Brent Barrett - Brent Barrett is an American actor and tenor who is mostly known for his work within American theatre. Browning Mummery (tenor) - Browning Mummery, was an Australian opera tenor and actor of the 1920s and '30s who achieved a considerable reputation in Europe as well as Australia. More Topics (B)...Bruce Ford (tenor) - Bruce Ford is an American operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and the bel canto repertory. Bruce Fowler (tenor) - Bruce Fowler is an American classical tenor who has had a major international performance career in operas and concerts since the early 1990s. Bruno Prevedi - Bruno Prevedi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Bulbul (singer) - Bulbul, born Murtuza Rza oglu Mammadov was a famous Soviet and Azerbaijani opera and folk music performer and one of the founders of vocal arts and national musical theatre in Azerbaijan. Bülent Bezdüz - Bülent Bezdüz, born in Ankara, Turkey, is a Grammy Award winning Turkish tenor.
Stegmann was a German tenor, harpsichordist, conductor, and composer.
Carl Stenborg - Carl Stenborg was a Swedish opera singer, actor, composer and theatre director.
Carl Tanner - Carl Tanner is an American operatic tenor.
Carlo Baucardé - Carlo Baucardé or Boucardé was an Italian operatic tenor who sang leading roles throughout Italy, as well as in London, Madrid, Paris, and New York.
Carlo Bergonzi - Carlo Bergonzi is an Italian operatic tenor.
More Topics (C)...Carlo Cossutta - Carlo Cossutta was a prominent Italian dramatic tenor who had a major international opera career that spanned from the mid 1950s through the late 1990s. Carlo Guasco - Carlo Guasco was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor who sang in Italian and other European opera houses from 1837 to 1853. Carlos Cosías - Carlos Cosías is a Spanish operatic tenor born in Barcelona, Spain. Cesare Valletti - Cesare Valletti was an Italian operatic tenor, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the postwar era. Chad Shelton - Chad Shelton is an American operatic tenor. More Topics (C)...Charles Anthony - Charles Anthony Caruso, better known by his stage name of Charles Anthony, is an American tenor noted for his portrayal of comprimario characters in opera. Charles Bressler - Charles Bressler was an American tenor. Charles Burles - Charles Burles is a French lyric tenor, primarily associated with the French repertory, both opera and operetta. Charles Castronovo - Charles Castronovo, is an American tenor. Charles Craig (tenor) - Charles James Craig was an English operatic tenor. Charles Dalmorès - Charles Dalmorès was a French tenor. Charles Friant - Auguste Charles Paul Friant, was a French tenor. Charles Goulding - Charles Goulding was an English operatic tenor best known for his performances with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the Gilbert and Sullivan repertory. Charles Hackett - Charles Hackett was an American tenor. Charles Kullman - Charles Kullman was an American tenor who enjoyed a wide-ranging career, both in Europe and America. More Topics (C)...Charles R. Adams - Charles R. Adams was an American opera singer and singing instructor. Chris Merritt - Chris Merritt is an opera singer. Christian Sturm - Christian Sturm is a German tenor. Christoph Genz - Christoph Genz is a German tenor in opera and concert. Christoph Prégardien - Christoph Prégardien is a German lyric tenor whose career is closely associated with the roles in Mozart operas, as well as performances of Lieder, oratorio roles, and Baroque music. Christopher Ventris - Christopher Ventris is a British tenor. Christos Stassinopoulos - The tenor Christos Stassinopoulos is an opera singer, recitalist and actor from Athens. Craig Campbell (tenor) - Robert Craig Campbell was a Canadian tenor who performed in operettas across Canada and the United States. César Vezzani - César Vezzani was a French/Corsican operatic tenor who became a leading exponent of French grand opera through several decades.
Barioni - Daniele Barioni is an Italian opera singer who had a prolific career during the 1950s through the 1970s.
Dano Raffanti - Dano Raffanti is an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian baroque and bel canto repertory.
Darren Keith Woods - Darren Keith Woods is an American opera director and operatic tenor.
David Devriès - David Devriès was a French operatic lyric tenor noted for his light, heady tone, and polished, nuanced phrasing.
David Gordon (tenor) - David Gordon, an internationally renowned concert and opera tenor, was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1947.
More Topics (D)...David Hillman - David Hillman was an English operatic tenor who sang with all the leading opera companies in the United Kingdom. David Hobson (tenor) - David Hobson, is an Australian opera singer. David Lloyd (tenor) - David George Lloyd was a Welsh singer. David Michael Schuster David Rendall (opera singer) - David Rendall is an English operatic tenor active from the 1970s to the present. More Topics (D)...Davis Cunningham - Davis Cunningham was an American tenor who had prominent career in operas, musicals, concerts, and on television from 1949 through 1973. Dennis McNeil - Dennis McNeil,, is an American operatic tenor, musical theater performer and concert singer. Dennis O'Neill - Dennis O'Neill CBE is a Welsh operatic tenor and recording artist. Dermot Troy - Dermot Troy was an Irish Lyric Tenor associated with the music of Mozart. Dino Borgioli - Dino Borgioli was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with Mozart, Rossini, and Donizetti roles. Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov - Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov was a leading Russian operatic tenor with a lyric voice and a bravura singing technique. Domenico Donzelli - Domenico Donzelli was an Italian tenor. Domenico Guardasoni - Domenico Guardasoni was an Italian tenor singer, opera producer and impresario. Domenico Reina - Domenico Reina was a Swiss bel canto tenor, notable for creating roles in the operas of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante and other Italian composers. Donald George - Donald George is an American operatic tenor. More Topics (D)...Donald Grobe - Donald Roth Grobe was an American lyric tenor who sang at the Deutsche Oper Berlin during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Donald Smith (tenor) - Donald Sydney Smith OBE was an Australian operatic tenor. Dénes Gulyás - Dénes Gulyás is a Hungarian tenor.
Bastidas is a Venezuelan tenor.
Edgar Evans (tenor) - Edgar Evans was a Welsh opera singer.
Edmond Clément - Edmond Clément was a French lyric tenor who earned an international reputation due to the polished artistry of his singing.
Edmond Vergnet - Edmond-Alphonse Vergnet was a French operatic tenor.
Edward Johnson (tenor) - Edward Patrick Johnson CBE was a Canadian operatic tenor who was billed outside North America as Edoardo Di Giovanni, and became director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
More Topics (E)...Emilio de Marchi - Emilio de Marchi was an Italian operatic tenor. Emilio Venturini - Emilio Venturini was an Italian operatic lyric tenor known for his portrayal of character roles. Enrico Caruso - Enrico Caruso was an Italian tenor with wide repertoire that ranged from lyric through to dramatic roles. Enrico Di Giuseppe - Enrico Di Giuseppe was a celebrated Italian-American operatic tenor who had an active performance career from the late 1950s through the 1990s. Enrico Tamberlik - Enrico Tamberlik was an Italian tenor who sang to great acclaim at Europe and America's leading opera venues. More Topics (E)...Enzo de Muro Lomanto - Enzo De Muro Lomanto was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric repertory. Eric Cutler - Eric Cutler is an American tenor notable for his performances of bel canto repertoire and Mozart operas in particular. Eric Tappy - Eric Tappy is a Swiss operatic tenor. Erik Schmedes - Erik Anton Julius Schmedes was an operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in operas by Richard Wagner. Ernest McChesney - Ernest McChesney was an American tenor who had an active singing career in operas, musicals, and concerts during the late 1920s through the early 1960s. Ernest van Dyck - Ernest van Dyck was a Belgian dramatic tenor. Ernesto Nicolini - Ernesto Nicolini was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. Ernesto Palacio - Ernesto Palacio is a Peruvian tenor, particularly associated with Rossini and Mozart roles. Ernst Haefliger - Ernst Haefliger was a Swiss tenor. Ernst Kozub - Ernst Kozub was a German tenor and opera singer. More Topics (E)...Ernst Kraus - Ernst Kraus was a German dramatic tenor. Eugene Conley - Eugene Conley was a celebrated American operatic tenor. Eugenio Fernandi - Eugenio Fernandi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with lyric and spinto roles. Evan Gorga - Evangelista Gennaro Gorga was an Italian lyric tenor.
Armiliato is an Italian tenor.
Fernando de la Mora (tenor) - Fernando de la Mora is a Mexican operatic tenor.
Fernando De Lucia - Fernando De Lucia was an Italian opera tenor and singing teacher who enjoyed an international career.
Fernando del Valle - Fernando del Valle is an American operatic tenor.
Ferruccio Tagliavini - Ferruccio Tagliavini was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s.
More Topics (F)...Flaviano Labò - Flaviano Labò was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with heroic roles of the Italian repertory. Florencio Constantino - Florencio Constantino was an opera tenor. Francesco Albanese - Francesco Albanese was a lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Francesco Demuro - Francesco Demuro, is an Italian operatic tenor. Francesco Dominici - Francesco Dominici was an Italian operatic tenor particualarly admired for his acting in comedic roles. More Topics (F)...Francesco Marconi - Francesco Marconi was an operatic tenor from Rome who enjoyed an important international career. Francesco Meli - Francesco Meli is an Italian operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto reportoire. Francesco Merli - Francesco Merli was an Italian opera singer, particularly associated with heavy roles such as Otello, Canio and Calaf. Francesco Rasi - Francesco Rasi was an Italian composer, singer, chitarrone player, and poet. Francesco Tamagno - Francesco Tamagno was an operatic tenor from Italy who sang with enormous success throughout Europe and America. Francisco Araiza - Francisco Araiza, is a Mexican operatic tenor. Franco Bonisolli - Franco Bonisolli was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, notably as Manrico and Calaf. Franco Corelli - Franco Corelli was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Franco Lo Giudice - Franco Lo Giudice was an Italian tenor who had a successful international opera career during the first half of the twentieth century. Frank Forest - Frank Forest was an American operatic tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the 1930s and 40s. More Topics (F)...Frank Kelley (tenor) - Frank Kelley is an internationally-acclaimed American tenor, who has performed in concert and in opera throughout North America and Europe. Frank Mullings - Frank Mullings was a leading English tenor with Sir Thomas Beecham's Beecham Opera Company and its successor, the British National Opera Company, during the 1910s and 1920s. Frank Ryan (tenor) - Frank Ryan was born in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland in October 1900 and moved to Tallow, County Waterford, Ireland at an early age, where his parents ran a victualling business. Franz Anton Spitzeder - Franz Anton Spitzeder was a German tenor and keyboard teacher. Franz Fehringer - Franz Fehringer was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with light lyric roles in the German, Italian, and French repertories. Franz Ferenczy - Franz Ferenczy was a nineteenth century German tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe between 1859-1880. Franz Gruber (tenor) - Franz Gruber was a German operatic tenor who had an active career in his native country and in Austria during the first half of the 20th century. Franz Nachbaur - Franz Nachbaur was a famous German opera tenor. Franz Völker - Franz Völker was a dramatic tenor who enjoyed a major European career. Frederick Jagel - Frederick Jagel was an American tenor, primarily active at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1930s and 1940s. More Topics (F)...Fritz Uhl - Fritz Uhl was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with Wagner roles. Fritz Windgassen - Fritz Windgassen was a German Heldentenor and teacher. Fritz Wunderlich - Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich was a German lyric tenor, born in Kusel in the Rhineland.
Carelli - Gabor Carelli was a Hungarian classical tenor who had an important career in operas and concerts in North America during the mid 20th century.
Gaetano Bardini - Gaetano Bardini is an Italian tenor.
Gaetano Crivelli - Gaetano Crivelli was a famous Italian tenor.
Gaetano Fraschini - Gaetano Fraschini was an Italian tenor who created many roles in 19th century operas including five by Giuseppe Verdi.
Galliano Masini - Galliano Masini was a leading Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the spinto roles of the Italian repertory.
More Topics (G)...Gari Glaysher - Gari Glaysher is a British operatic tenor and classical crossover singer. Gary Lakes - Gary Lakes is an American opera tenor. Georg Unger - Georg Unger was a German tenor most famous for playing Siegfried in Der Ring des Nibelungen written by Richard Wagner. George Perren - George Perren was an English tenor active in both concert and opera. George Rasely - George Rasely was an American tenor who had an active career in operas, concerts, and musicals during the first half of the 20th century. More Topics (G)...George Shirley - George Irving Shirley is a renowned tenor opera singer. Georges Thill - Georges Thill was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor. Georgi Vinogradov (tenor) - Georgi Pavlovich Vinogradov, Honoured Artist of Russia, was a Russian tenor: a popular World War II singer on Radio Moscow, recording artist, and soloist with the Alexandrov Ensemble. Gerald English - Gerald English is an English-born Australian-resident tenor. Gerhard Stolze - Gerhard Stolze was a German tenor. Gerhard Unger - Gerhard Unger is a German light tenor born in Bad Salzungen. Gert Potgieter (tenor) - Gerhardus Petrus "Gert" Potgieter, was a South African opera tenor and actor who had a great influence on Afrikaans culture. Giacinto Prandelli - Giacinto Prandelli was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertoires. Giacomo Aragall - Jaume Aragall i Garriga better known as Giacomo Aragall is a Spanish Catalan tenor, born in Barcelona, Spain on 6 June 1939. Giacomo David - Giacomo David, was a leading Italian tenor of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. More Topics (G)...Giacomo Lauri-Volpi - Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was an Italian tenor with a lyric-dramatic voice of exceptional range and technical facility. Gianni Poggi - Gianni Poggi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Gianni Raimondi - Gianni Raimondi was an Italian lyric tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Gilbert Duprez - Gilbert Duprez was a French tenor, singing teacher and minor composer who famously pioneered the delivery of the operatic high C from the chest. Gino Penno - Gino Penno was an Italian tenor, who enjoyed a short but brilliant career in opera in the 1950s. Gino Sinimberghi - Gino Sinimberghi was a tenor opera singer from Rome, Italy. Gioacchino Livigni - Gioacchino Lauro Li Vigni is a tenor opera singer who performs internationally. Giovanni Battista Rubini - Giovanni Battista Rubini was an Italian tenor, as famous in his time as Enrico Caruso in a later day. Giovanni Battista Verger - Giovanni Battista Verger was an Italian operatic tenor and impresario. Giovanni Breviario - Giovanni Breviario, was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with Italian dramatic roles. More Topics (G)...Giovanni David - Giovanni David was an Italian tenor particularly known for his roles in Rossini operas. Giovanni Malipiero - Giovanni Malipiero was an operatic tenor who enjoyed a prominent career on stage and on radio in his native Italy during the 1930s and '40s. Giovanni Martinelli - Giovanni Martinelli was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor. Giovanni Sbriglia - Giovanni Sbriglia, was an Italian tenor and prominent teacher of singing. Giovanni Valesi - Giovanni Valesi was a German tenor. Giovanni Zenatello - Giovanni Zenatello was an Italian opera singer. Giuliano Bernardi - Giuliano Bernardi was an Italian operatic baritone and tenor. Giuliano Ciannella - Giuliano Ciannella was an Italian operatic tenor who had a major international career from the mid 1970s through the late 1990s. Giulio Crimi - Giulio Crimi was an Italian operatic tenor. Giulio Gari - Giulio Gari was a versatile and internationally known tenor who performed on both the opera and concert stages. More Topics (G)...Giuseppe Anselmi - Giuseppe Anselmi was an Italian operatic tenor. Giuseppe Borgatti - Giuseppe Borgatti was an Italian dramatic tenor with an outstanding voice. Giuseppe Campora - Giuseppe Campora, was an Italian operatic tenor. Giuseppe Ciccimarra - Giuseppe Ciccimarra was an Italian tenor, closely associated with Rossini roles. Giuseppe Cremonini - Giuseppe Cremonini was an Italian operatic tenor who had a prominent opera career in Europe and the United States during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Giuseppe Di Stefano - Giuseppe Di Stefano was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the late 1940s until the early 1970s. Giuseppe Giacomini - Giuseppe Giacomini is an Italian dramatic tenor. Giuseppe Nessi - Giussepe Nessi was an Italian operatic tenor. Gordon Wry - Gordon Wry was a Canadian tenor and conductor. Graham Clark (tenor) - Graham Clark is an English opera tenor, mainly known for his character roles like Loge, Mime and the Captain. More Topics (G)...Grant Williams - Grant Williams was an American film actor and operatic tenor. Gregorio Babbi - Gregorio Babbi was an Italian operatic tenor. Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu - Wu Pak Chiu, was a prominent Chinese tenor who sang in Europe under the name of Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu. Gregory Kunde - Gregory Kunde is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the French and Italian repertories. Gualtiero Negrini - Gualtiero Negrini is known mostly as an Italian-American tenor who has performed leading roles with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera and many others. Gustav Walter - Gustav Walter was a Bohemian operatic tenor who sang leading roles for more than 30 years at the Vienna Staatsoper in Austria. Gustáv Papp - Gustáv Papp is a Slovak operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1940s through the 1980s. Guy Bélanger - Guy Bélanger is a Canadian tenor, opera director, composer, and conductor. Guy de Mey - Guy de Mey is a Belgian classical tenor who has appeared in operas and concerts in Europe, the United States, Canada, Israel, and Japan. Gé Korsten - Gérard Korsten was a South African opera tenor and actor who had a great influence on Afrikaans culture. More Topics (G)...Gösta Winbergh - Gösta Winbergh was a Swedish tenor and Mozart admirer. Günther Treptow - Günther Treptow was a German operatic tenor, best known for Wagner roles.
Hopf was a German operatic tenor, one of the leading heldentenors of the immediate postwar period.
Harry Theyard - Harry Theyard, tenor, is a native of New Orleans and is a 1957 graduate of Loyola University of the South, where he studied under Dorothy Hulse, who was also the teacher of Audrey Schuh and Char...
Hasan Enami Olya - Hasan Enami Olya is an Iranian opera singer.
Hector Dupeyron - Hector Dupeyron was a French operatic tenor who had a prolific opera career in Europe from 1887 through 1906.
Heddle Nash - Heddle Nash was an English lyric tenor who enjoyed an outstanding career in opera and oratorio during the 1920s, '30s and '40s.
More Topics (H)...Heinrich Knote - Heinrich Knote was an outstanding German dramatic tenor with an international reputation. Heinrich Kreuzer - Heinrich Kreuzer was a well-known Austrian Jewish opera singer. Heinrich Sontheim - Heinrich Sontheim, also known as Honas Bär Sontheimer, was a prominent late-19th-Century tenor and kammersänger based in Stuttgart, Germany. Heinrich Vogl - Heinrich Vogl was a German operatic heldentenor. Heinz Zednik - Heinz Zednik is an Austrian operatic tenor, closely associated with the character tenor roles of Wagner such as Mime and Loge and David. More Topics (H)...Helge Rosvaenge - Helge Rosvaenge, Helge Anton Rosenvinge Hansen, was a famous Danish operatic tenor whose career was centred on Germany and Austria, before, during and after World War II. Helmut Krebs - Helmut Krebs was a distinguished German operatic tenor, who sang a wide range of roles from baroque to contemporary works. Helmut Kretschmar - Helmut Kretschmar is a German classical tenor who spent most of his career performing in concerts and recitals with major orchestras and at important music festivals internationally. Henri Legay - Henri Legay was a French operatic tenor. Henry Price (tenor) - Henry Price is a well-known American operatic tenor, who was a pupil of the tenor Eugene Conley. Herbert Ernst Groh - Herbert Ernst Groh was a popular Swiss tenor. Hervé Niquet - Hervé Niquet is a French conductor, harpsichordist, tenor, and the director of Le Concert Spirituel, specializing in French Baroque music. Hippolyte Belhomme - Hippolyte-Adolphe Belhomme, was a prominent French bass or bass-baritone and long-term member of the Opéra-Comique company in Paris. Hipólito Lázaro - Hipólito Lázaro was a Spanish/Catalan opera singer. Howard Crook - Howard Crook is an American lyric tenor who has lived and worked in the Netherlands and France since the early 1980s. More Topics (H)...Hubert Marischka - Hubert Marischka, brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter. Hugh Talbot - Hugh Talbot was an Irish tenor and actor best known for creating, to universally bad reviews, the role of Frederic in the Gilbert and Sullivan hit The Pirates of Penzance in the New York pro... Hugues Cuénod - Hugues-Adhémar Cuénod is a Swiss tenor renowned in opera, operetta and song. Huseyngulu Sarabski - Huseyngulu Sarabski, born Huseyngulu Malik oglu Rzayev, was an Azerbaijani opera singer, composer, playwright, stage actor, theatre director, and musician.
Bostridge CBE is an acclaimed English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist.
Italo Campanini - Italo Campanini was a leading Italian operatic tenor, whose career reached its height in London in the 1870s and in New York in the 1880s and 1890s.
Italo Gardoni - Italo Gardoni was a leading Italian operatic tenore di grazia singer who had an international career during the second half of the 19th century.
Ivan Kozlovsky - Ivan Semyonovitch Kozlovsky was a Soviet lyric tenor of Ukrainian ethnicity, one of the greatest stars of Soviet opera, as well a producer and director of his own opera company, and longtime te...
Ivan Yershov - Ivan Vasiliyevitch Yershov or Ershov, born November 8, 1867 - died November 21, 1943, was a great Russian opera singer.
More Topics (I)...Ivo Žídek - Ivo Žídek was a celebrated Czech lyric tenor, known for his vivid portrayals of character roles in the operas of Smetana, Dvorák and Janáček.
Pottier - Jacques Pottier is a French operatic tenor who made many recordings during his career and was a Principal Tenor of the Opéra National de Paris.
Jacques Urlus - Jacques Urlus, was a Dutch dramatic tenor.
James Gilchrist (tenor) - James Gilchrist is a British operatic tenor.
James King (tenor) - James King was widely regarded as the finest American heldentenor of the post-war period.
James McCracken - James McCracken was an American operatic tenor.
More Topics (J)...James Melton - James Melton, was a popular singer in the 1920s and early 1930s who later began a career as an operatic singer when tenor voices went out of style in popular music around 1932-1935. James Stuart (opera director) - James F. Stuart was an American opera director and operatic tenor. James Taylor (tenor) - James Taylor is an American tenor, known for singing the Evangelist in works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Jan Kiepura - Jan Wiktor Kiepura was a Polish singer and actor. Jan Kobow - Jan Kobow is a German classical tenor in concert, Lied and Baroque opera. More Topics (J)...Jan Kyhle - Jan Kyhle is a Swedish opera and musical singer. Jan Nepomuk Maýr - Jan Nepomuk Maýr was a Czech operatic tenor, opera director, conductor, composer, and music educator. Jan Peerce - Jan Peerce was an American operatic tenor. Jasmin Bašić Jean de Reszke - Jean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw,, was a Polish tenor. Jean Elleviou - Jean Elleviou was a French operatic tenor, one of the most celebrated French singers of his time. Jean-Alexandre Talazac - Jean-Alexandre Talazac was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory. Jean-Paul Fouchécourt - Jean-Paul Fouchécourt is a French tenor, mostly as an opera singer. Jerry Hadley - Jerry Hadley was an American operatic tenor. Jess Thomas - Jess Thomas was a Wagnerian tenor. More Topics (J)...Jesús León - Jesús León is a Mexican operatic tenor. Johan Botha (tenor) - Johan Botha, born on August 19, 1965 in Rustenburg, South Africa, made his stage debut at the municipal theatre in Roodepoort as Max in Der Freischütz in 1989. Johann Joseph Nouseul - Johann Joseph Nouseul was an actor, singer, and theater manager of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Johann Valentin Adamberger - Johann Valentin Adamberger was a German tenor closely associated with the works of Mozart. John Aler - John Aler is an American lyric tenor known for his performances in concerts, recitals, and operas, Aler is particularly known for his interpretations of the works of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, ... John Alexander (tenor) - John Alexander was an American operatic tenor who had a substantial career during the 1950s through the 1980s. John Beard (tenor) - John Beard was an English tenor of the 18th century. John Coates (tenor) - John Coates was a leading English tenor, who sang in opera and oratorio and on the concert platform. John Duykers - John Duykers is a prominent American operatic tenor, known for his work in modern and contemporary opera. John Easterlin - John Easterlin is an American operatic tenor who has sung at many of the United States' leading opera houses. More Topics (J)...John Keyes - John Caius, also known as Johannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of the present Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. John Mark Ainsley - John Mark Ainsley is an English lyric tenor. John McCollum - John McCollum is an American tenor who had an active singing career in operas, concerts, and recitals during the 1950s through the 1970s. John McCormack (tenor) - John McCormack, was a world-famous Irish tenor and recording artist, he has been considered the Ronan Keating of his time, celebrated for his performances of the operatic and popular song repert... John McHugh (tenor) - John McHugh was a British operatic tenor known for his singing of ballads and romantic tunes and lyrics. John van Kesteren - John van Kesteren was a Dutch operatic tenor. Jon Garrison - Jon Garrison is a successful American operatic tenor who has been performing in locations around the world since 1965. Jon Robert Cart - Jon Robert Cart is an American operatic tenor noted for his "thrilling squillo in the Mario del Monaco mold." Jon Vickers - Jonathan Stewart Vickers, CC, known professionally as Jon Vickers, is a retired Canadian heldentenor. Jonas Kaufmann - Jonas Kaufmann is a lirico spinto tenor born in Munich, Germany. More Topics (J)...Josef Gostic - Josef Gostic was a Slovene operatic tenor. Josef Tichatschek - Josef Aloys Tichatschek, originally Tichaček, was a Bohemian opera singer highly regarded by Richard Wagner. Josef Traxel - Josef Traxel was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and the German repertory. Josef Witt - Kammersänger Josef Witt was a tenor who was a regular performer at the Vienna State Opera before WW II. His name is sometimes spelt Joseph Witt. Joseph Calleja - Joseph Calleja,, is a Maltese tenor. Joseph Carl Breil - Joseph Carl Breil was an American tenor, stage director, composer and conductor. Joseph Hislop - Joseph Hislop was a lyric tenor who appeared in opera and oratorio and gave concerts around the world. Joseph Kaiser - Joseph Kaiser is a Canadian operatic tenor. Joseph Legros - Joseph Legros was a French singer and composer of the 18th century. Joseph O'Mara - Joseph O'Mara was an Irish opera singer of the Victorian era. More Topics (J)...Joseph Schmidt - Joseph Schmidt was a Jewish Romanian tenor and actor. Joseph Wilhelm Swoboda - Joseph Wilhelm Swoboda was a Czech operatic tenor, actor, and opera director. José Carreras - Josep Maria Carreras i Coll, better known as José Carreras, is a Catalan Spanish tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini. José Cura - José Cura is a prominent operatic tenor known for his intense and original interpretations of his characters, notably Verdi’s Otello and Saint-Saëns’ Samson, as well as for his unconventional an... José Dupuis - Joseph-Lambert Dupuis was a Belgian singer and actor. José Luccioni - José Luccioni was a French operatic tenor of Corsican origin. José Sosa Esquivel - José Sosa Esquivel was a Mexican tenor. Jozef Kundlák - Jozef Kundlák is a Slovak tenor. Juan Carlos Echeverry - Juan Carlos Echeverry is a Colombian operatic tenor. Juan Diego Flórez - Juan Diego Flórez is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. More Topics (J)...Juan Oncina - Juan Oncina was a Spanish tenor, particularly associated with Rossini and light Donizetti roles, one of the leading tenore di grazia of the 1950s. Julian Gavin - Julian Gavin is an Australian-born operatic tenor who has sung leading roles both in the United Kingdom and internationally. Julius Patzak - Julius Patzak was an Austrian tenor distinguished in operatic and concert work. Julián Gayarre - Sebastián Julián Gayarre Garjón, better known as Julián Gayarre, was a Spanish opera singer who created the role of Marcello in Donizetti's Il Duca d'Alba and Enzo in Ponchielli's La... Jussi Björling - Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling was a Swedish tenor. Jörg Dürmüller - Jörg Dürmüller is a Swiss classical tenor in concert and opera.
Wilson is an American jazz, R&B, and classical singer, and vocal coach.
Karel Burian - Karel Burian was a renowned Czech operatic tenor who had an active international career spanning the 1890s to the 1920s.
Karel Fiala - Karel Fiala is a Czech operatic tenor and film actor.
Karel Hruška - Karel Hruška was a Czech tenor, radio personality, and actor of the stage and film.
Karl Aagard Østvig - Karl Aagaard Østvig was a Norwegian operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher.
More Topics (K)...Karl Erb - Karl Erb was a German tenor vocalist who made his career first in opera and then in oratorio and lieder recital. Karl Terkal - Karl Terkal was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with lyric roles of the German repertory, both opera and operetta. Karl Ziegler (tenor) - Karl Ziegler was an operatic tenor, who was active in Germany and Austria during the first half of the 20th century. Kenneth Neate - Kenneth Neate was a renowned Australian operatic and concert tenor, opera producer and singing teacher. Klaus Florian Vogt - Klaus Florian Vogt is a German operatic tenor known for parts of Richard Wagner. More Topics (K)...Kristján Jóhannsson - Kristján Jóhannsson is an Icelandic operatic tenor particularly known for his performances in Verdian roles, and especially as Radames in Aida.
Kozma is an Hungarian operatic tenor, particularly associated with lyric Italian roles, baroque operas and oratorios.
Lamberto Bergamini - Lamberto Bergamini was an Italian tenor from Pisa.
Lando Bartolini - Lando Bartolini is an Italian tenor.
Lauritz Melchior - Lauritz Melchior was a Danish and later American opera singer.
Lawrence Brownlee - Lawrence Brownlee is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire.
More Topics (L)...Leo Marian Vodička - Leo Marian Vodička is a Czech operatic tenor who has had an active international career since the early 1970s. Leo Slezak - Leo Slezak was a world-famous tenor. Leonard Labatt - Leonard Labatt was a Swedish dramatic tenor. Leonid Sobinov - Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov was a Russian and Soviet opera singer, and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. Libero de Luca - Libero de Luca is a Swiss lyric tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory. More Topics (L)...Lionello Cecil - Lionello Cecil was an Australian operatic tenor. Loren Driscoll - Loren Driscoll was an American tenor who had an active international career from the 1950s through the mid 1980s. Lorenz Fehenberger - Lorenz Fehenberger was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with the German and Italian repertories. Lorenzo Salvi - Lorenzo Salvi was an Italian operatic tenor who had a major international opera career during the nineteenth century. Louis Danto - Louis Harry Danto was a lyric tenor and cantor who has won acclaim across the world for his concert appearances and recordings of Italian, Russian, and French opera repertoire, as well as in the... Louis Gaulard Dumesny - Dumesnil was a French operatic tenor. Louis Guéymard - Louis Guéymard was a French operatic tenor. Luca Botta - Luca Botta was an Italian operatic tenor. Luciano Pavarotti - Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all... Lucien Muratore - Lucien Muratore was a French actor and operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory. More Topics (L)...Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld - Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld was a German heldentenor and the creator of the role of Tristan in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde. Ludwig Suthaus - Ludwig Suthaus was a German opera singer, who was born in Cologne and died in West Berlin. Luigi Alva - Luis Ernesto Alva Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva is a Peruvian operatic tenor, active in the third quarter of the 20th century. Luigi Antinori - Luigi Antinori was born at Bologna about 1697. Luigi Bolis - Luigi Bolis was an Italian tenor. Luigi Infantino - Luigi Infantino was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the lyric Italian and French repertories. Luigi Marini - Luigi Marini, was an Italian lyric tenor. Luis Lima - Luis Lima is an Argentine operatic tenor, who studied in Buenos Aires under Carlos Guichandut and in Sicily under Gina Cigna. Lutfiyar Imanov - Lutfiyar Muslum oglu Imanov was an Azerbaijani opera singer. Lutz-Michael Harder - Lutz-Michael Harder is a German lyric tenor known mostly for his interpretation of Mozart opera roles and as a baroque concert soloist. More Topics (L)...Léon Escalais - Léon Escalaïs was a prominent Gallic tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian heroic roles. Léopold Simoneau - Léopold Simoneau, CC, CQ was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time.
Lang was a Swiss chazan and singer.
Marcel Wittrisch - Marcel Wittrisch was a popular German operatic tenor.
Marcello Giordani - Marcello Giordani is an Italian operatic tenor who has sung leading roles in opera houses throughout Europe and the United States.
Marcelo Álvarez - Marcelo Raúl Álvarez,, is an Argentine lyric tenor who achieved international success starting in the mid-1990s.
Marco Bordogni - Giulio Marco Bordogni, usually called Marco Bordogni, was an Italian operatic tenor and singing teacher of great popularity and success, whose mature career was based in Paris.
More Topics (M)...Mario (tenor) - Mario was an Italian opera singer. Mario del Monaco - Mario Del Monaco was an Italian tenor and is regarded by his admirers as being one of the greatest dramatic tenors of the 20th Century. Mario Filippeschi - Mario Filippeschi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, renowned for his ringing upper register. Mario Frangoulis - Mario Frangoulis is a Greek tenor and is best known for his song, "Vincerò, Perderò." Mark Lundberg - Mark Lundberg was an American opera singer who had an active international career from the 1980s up until his sudden death in 2008. More Topics (M)...Mark Nicolson - American tenor, Mark Nicolson is an international opera singer and voice teacher in New York City. Mark Padmore - Mark Padmore is a British tenor appearing in concerts, recitals, and opera. Martin Dillon (musician) - Martin Dillon was a United States born musician, operatic tenor, and professor of music at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Matteo Babini - Matteo Antonio Babini, also known by the family name of Babbini, was a leading Italian tenor of the late 18th-century and a teacher of singing and stage art. Matthew Polenzani - Matthew Polenzani is an American lyric tenor, born in Evanston, Illinois. Max Alvary - Max Alvary, originally Maximilian Achenbach, was a German operatic tenor. Max Hansen (tenor) - Max Hansen was a Danish singer known as 'The Little Caruso', also a cabaret artist, actor and comedian. Max Lorenz (tenor) - Max Lorenz was a German heroic tenor famous for Wagner roles. Max Meili - Max Meili, a Swiss tenor, was born 11 December 1899 in Winterthur and died 17 March 1970 in Zürich, Switzerland. Michael Kelly (tenor) - Michael Kelly was an Irish actor, singer, composer and theatrical manager who made an international career of importance in musical history. More Topics (M)...Michael Pollock (tenor) - Michael Pollock was an American operatic tenor, opera director, and voice teacher. Michael Schade - Michael Schade is a Canadian operatic tenor, who was born in Geneva and raised in Germany and Canada. Michael Sylvester - Michael Lane Sylvester was a lyric spinto operatic tenor. Michel Sénéchal - Michel Sénéchal is a French tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian character roles in a repertory ranging from Baroque to contemporary works. Miguel Fleta - Miguel Burró Fleta was a Spanish operatic tenor. Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhaylov - Mikhail Ivanovich Mikhaylov - was a well known Russian opera singer. Miroslav Dvorský - Miroslav Dvorský is a Slovak operatic tenor of international renown who has had an active career since the early 1980s. Mirto Picchi - Mirto Picchi was an Italian tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, and with contemporary works. Murray Dickie - Murray Dickie was a Scottish tenor opera singer and director, who established his career in England, Austria and Italy during the 1950s. Mécène Marié de l'Isle - Claude-Marie-Mécène Marié de l'Isle was a French musician and opera singer.
Granner is an American tenor who performs in opera and oratorio, as well as more popular genres.
Neil Mackie - Neil Mackie CBE, CStJ, FRSE, FRCM, FRSAMD is a Scottish classical tenor and Professor at the Royal Academy of Music.
Neil Shicoff - Neil Shicoff is an American opera singer known for his lyric tenor singing and his dramatic, emotional acting.
Niall Morris - Niall Morris, born in Dublin, is a well-known Irish classical singer.
Nico Castel - Nico Castel is a comprimario tenor and well-known language and diction coach, as well as a prolific translator of libretti and writer of books on singing diction.
More Topics (N)...Nicola Filacuridi - Nicola Filacuridi was an Egyptian-born operatic tenor of Greek origin, who had an illustrious career in Italy in the 1950s. Nicola Monti - Nicola Monti is an Italian opera singer, one of the leading tenori di grazia of the 1950s. Nicola Tacchinardi - Nicola Tacchinardi, was an Italian cellist and tenor, and later voice teacher. Nicolae Leonard - Nicolae Leonard was a Romanian opera tenor, nicknamed "Prince of the operetta". Nicolai Gedda - The Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda is a famous opera singer and recitalist. More Topics (N)...Nikolay and Medea Figner - Nikolay Figner, lyric tenor, and Medea Figner, mezzo-soprano, later soprano, were a renowned husband-and-wife team of opera singers active in Russia between 1889 and 1904. Nikolay Baskov - Nikolay Victorovich Baskov is a popular Russian tenor singer. Nino Martini - Nino Martini was an Italian operatic tenor and actor. Nolan Van Way - Nolan Van Way is an American operatic baritone and tenor with a successful singing career in opera and Broadway musicals that spanned half a century. Norman Kelley - Norman Kelley was an American operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1940s through the 1970s.
Chishko was a Ukrainian and Russian Soviet composer and singer.
Orville Harrold - Orville Harrold was an American tenor.
Panzacchi was an Italian operatic tenor, and the first Arbace in Mozart's Idomeneo re di Creta.
Patrick Power (tenor) - Patrick Power,, is a New Zealand tenor.
Paul Agnew - Paul Agnew is a Scottish operatic tenor.
Paul Althouse - Paul Althouse was an American opera singer.
Paul Kandel - Paul Kandel is an American musical theatre actor and tenor singer best known for his work as the Gypsy leader Clopin in the 1996 Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
More Topics (P)...Paul Kuen - Paul Kuen was a German operatic tenor particularly known for his portrayals of character roles such as Mime in Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Paul Kuhn - Paul Kuhn was a German operatic tenor who specialized in the buffo repertoire. Paul Lhérie - Paul Lhérie, born Paris October 8, 1844, died Paris October 17, 1937 was a French tenor, most famous for creating the role of Don José in Bizet's Carmen. Pavol Gábor - Pavol Gábor was a Slovak operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1960s through the 1990s. Peter Anders (tenor) - Peter Anders was a German operatic tenor who sang a wide range of parts in the German, Italian, and French repertories. More Topics (P)...Peter Auty - Peter Auty is an English operatic tenor who has worked with most of the major opera companies in Britain and a number of companies in continental Europe. Peter Butterfield - Peter Butterfield is a Canadian conductor and classical tenor. Peter Dvorský - Peter Dvorský is a Slovak operatic tenor. Peter Hofmann Peter Klein (tenor) - Peter Klein was a German lyric and light-operatic tenor. Peter Schreier - Peter Schreier is a German tenor and conductor. Peter Seiffert - Peter Seiffert is a German tenor. Philip Langridge - Philip Gordon Langridge CBE was an English tenor, considered to be among the foremost exponents of English opera and oratorio. Philip Sheffield - Philip Sheffield is a British opera singer tenor who has performed all over the world including Royal Opera, London, La Scala Milan and La Monnaie Brussels among others. Pier Miranda Ferraro - Pier Miranda Ferraro was an Italian operatic tenor who had an active international opera career from 1951 through 1981. More Topics (P)...Piero de Palma - Piero de Palma is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles. Pierre Duval - Pierre Duval is a French-Canadian operatic tenor who had an active international career during the 1960s and 1970s. Pierre Gaveaux - Pierre Gaveaux was a French operatic tenor and composer, notable for creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée and for composing the first operatic version of the story that later foun... Pierre Jélyotte - Pierre Jélyotte was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with works by Rameau, Lully, Campra, and Destouches. Pierre-Aurèle Asselin - Pierre-Aurèle Asselin was a French Canadian furrier and tenor singer. Pietro Ballo - Pietro Ballo - Italian operatic singer, born October 2, 1952 in Palermo. Piotr Beczała - Piotr Beczała is a Polish operatic tenor. Plácido Domingo - José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE, better known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughou... Powell Lloyd - Harold Powell Lloyd was an English operatic tenor and opera director and producer. Pyotr Slovtsov - Pyotr Ivanovich Slovtsov was a famous Russian tenor.
Raffaele Mirate - Raffaele Mirate was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor who had an active career from the 1830s through the 1860s.
Ragnar Ulfung - Ragnar Sigurd Ulfung is a Norweigan operatic tenor.
Ramón Vargas - Ramón Vargas is an award-winning Mexican operatic tenor.
Ramón Vinay - Ramón Vinay was a famous Chilean operatic tenor with a powerful, dramatic voice.
Raoul Jobin - Raoul Jobin, CC was a French-Canadian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the French repertory.
More Topics (R)...Raúl Giménez - Raúl Giménez is an Argentinian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian bel canto repertory, in which he is considered one of the best exponent in recent years. Reed Miller - Reed Miller was an American tenor who had an active career as a concert and oratorio singer during the first quarter of the 20th century. Reiner Goldberg - Reiner Goldberg is a German opera singer. Renato Cioni - Renato Cioni is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Renato Zanelli - Renato Zanelli was a Chilean operatic baritone and later tenor, particularly associated with heroic Italian and German roles, notably Verdi's Otello. More Topics (R)...René Kollo - René Kollo is a German tenor. René Maison - René Maison was a prominent Belgian operatic tenor, particularly associated with heroic roles of the French, Italian and German repertories. Riccardo Martin - Riccardo Martin was an American tenor. Richard Bruno Heydrich - Richard Bruno Heydrich was a German opera singer, and composer. Richard Cassilly Richard Crooks - Richard Alexander Crooks was an American tenor and a leading singer at the New York Metropolitan Opera. Richard Holm (tenor) - Richard Holm was a German operatic tenor, particularly associated with Mozart, though he sang a wide range of roles. Richard Leech (tenor) - Richard Leech is an American operatic tenor, recipient of the Richard Tucker Award in 1988, and particularly associated with lyric roles of the Italian and French repertories. Richard Margison - Richard Charles Margison, OC is a Canadian operatic tenor. Richard Tauber - Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. More Topics (R)...Richard Troxell - Richard Troxell is a United States operatic tenor who hails from Thurmont, Maryland. Richard Tucker - Richard Tucker was an American operatic tenor. Richard Verreau - Richard Verreau, OC, OQ was a French-Canadian operatic tenor, particularly associated to the French and Italian repertories. Richard Versalle - Richard Versalle was an American operatic tenor who had an international career including performances at the Bayreuth Festival and the Vienna State Opera. Robert Breault - Robert Breault is an American operatic tenor. Robert Brubaker (tenor) - Robert Brubaker is an American operatic tenor. Robert Dean Smith - Robert Dean Smith is an American operatic tenor. Robert Ilosfalvy - Róbert Ilosfalvy was a Hungarian operatic tenor; he possessed a voice of lyric grace and dramatic power enabling him to sing a wide range of roles in the Italian, German, and French repertories. Robert Moulson - Robert Moulson was an American classical tenor who had an active international career in operas and concerts from the late 1950s through the 1980s. Robert Nagy - Robert Nagy was an American operatic tenor who had a lengthy and fruitful association with the Metropolitan Opera that lasted for three decades. More Topics (R)...Robert Rounseville - Robert Rounseville was an American tenor, who appeared in opera, operetta, and Broadway musicals. Robert Tear - Robert Tear CBE is a Welsh tenor and conductor. Roberto Alagna - Roberto Alagna is a French operatic tenor of Sicilian descent. Roberto Stagno - Roberto Stagno, was a prominent Italian operatic tenor. Robin Donald - Robin Donald Smith, who appeared professionally as Robin Donald, is an Australian operatic tenor. Rockland Osgood - Rockland Osgood is a contemporary American lyric tenor who has distinguished himself in a wide variety of musical idioms from the Baroque to the latest in Contemporary compositions. Rockwell Blake - Rockwell Blake is an American operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in Rossini operas. Roger Doucet - Roger Doucet, CM was a Canadian tenor best known for singing the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada", on televised games of the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Alouettes, and Montreal Expos during... Rolando Villazón - Emilio Rolando Villazón Mauleón, is a Mexican-born tenor who settled in France and in 2007 became a French citizen. Ronald Naldi - Ronald Naldi is an American lyric tenor who has performed on the stages of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Arena di Verona, L'Opéra Français, Salzburger Landestheater, and New Je... More Topics (R)...Rosario La Spina - Rosario La Spina is an Australian operatic tenor who has had an active international career since the early 2000s. Roy Cornelius Smith - Roy Cornelius Smith is an American operatic tenor, from Big Stone Gap, Virginia. Rubén Domínguez - Rubén Domínguez is a Venezuelan lirico-spinto tenor. Rudolf Christ - Rudolf Christ was an Austrian tenor concert and opera singer. Rudolf Schock - Rudolf Johann Schock was a German tenor.
Salvatore Fisichella - Salvatore Fisichella is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas, especially those of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini.
Salvatore Licitra - Salvatore Licitra is an Italian tenor.
Salvatore Papaccio - Salvatore Papaccio was a tenor and an exponent of Canzone Napoletana.
Sebastian Feiersinger - Sebastian Feiersinger was an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the German repertory.
Sergei Lemeshev - Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev was a Soviet operatic lyric tenor.
More Topics (S)...Sergej Larin - Sergej Larin or was one of a number of operatic tenors from the former Soviet Union to achieve success in the West. Set Svanholm - Set Svanholm was a Swedish operatic tenor, considered the leading Tristan and Siegfried of the first decade following World War II. Siegfried Jerusalem - Siegfried Jerusalem is a German operatic tenor. Simon O'Neill - Simon O'Neill is a New Zealand-born operatic tenor. Simon-Max - Nicolas-Marie Simon Simon-Max, born Reims in 1852, died 1923, was a French tenor, mainly active in Paris in the field of opera-bouffe. More Topics (S)...Sims Reeves - John Sims Reeves, usually called simply Sims Reeves, was the foremost English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist of the mid-Victorian era. Siphiwo Ntshebe - Siphiwo Ntshebe was a South African tenor opera singer. Stefan Zucker - Stefan Zucker is an American singer, expert on Italian opera and self-described "opera fanatic." Stephen Costello - Stephen Costello is an American operatic tenor and a recipient of the 2009 Richard Tucker Award. Stephen Gould (tenor) - Stephen Gould is an American heldentenor, born in Virginia. Stephen Mark Brown - Stephen Mark Brown is an internationally known opera singer. Steuart Wilson - Sir James Steuart Wilson was a tenor singer and musical administrator. Stig Fogh Andersen - Stig Fogh Andersen is a Danish operatic tenor. Stuart Burrows - Stuart Burrows - OBE is a Welsh operatic tenor. Stuart Howe - Stuart Howe is an operatic tenor born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. More Topics (S)...Sándor Kónya - Sándor Kónya was an Hungarian tenor, particularly associated with German and Italian roles, especially Lohengrin and Calaf.
Ichihara is a Japanese opera singer, who sings as a tenor, primarily in Verdi roles.
Theo Altmeyer - Theo Altmeyer was a German classical tenor.
Thiago Arancam - Thiago Arancam is an Italian-Brazilian lirico spinto tenor.
Thomas Edmonds (tenor) - Thomas Edmonds,, is an Australian singer who was born in South Australia, Australia.
Thomas Hayward (tenor) - Thomas Hayward was an American operatic tenor of note.
More Topics (T)...Thomas Lowe (tenor) - Thomas Lowe was an English tenor and actor. Thomas Round - Thomas Round is a retired English opera singer and actor, best known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas and in grand opera. Tibor Kelen - Tibor Kelen was a Hungarian singer, widely regarded as one of the very greatest operatic tenors of his country if not - for a limited time - world over. Ticho Parly - Ticho Parly was a Danish Heldentenor who sang leading roles in most of the major opera houses of Europe as well as the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera, where he debuted in 1966 a... Tino Folgar - Tino Folgar was a Spanish operatic tenor, primarily active in Spain and Italy. More Topics (T)...Tito Beltrán - Ernesto Beltrán, better known as Tito Beltrán, is a Chilean-Swedish tenor. Tito Schipa - Tito Schipa was an Italian tenor. Tomislav Mužek - Tomislav Mužek is a Croatian tenor and opera singer. Tommy Rall - Thomas Edward "Tommy" Rall is an American ballet dancer, tap dancer and acrobatic dancer who was a prominent featured player in 1950s musical comedies. Tony Poncet - Tony Poncet was a French operatic tenor, particularly associated with heroic roles of the French and Italian repertoire. Topi Lehtipuu - Topi Lehtipuu is a Finnish operatic tenor. Torsten Ralf - Torsten Ralf, was a Swedish operatic tenor, particularly associated with Wagner and Strauss roles, one of the leading dramatic tenors of the inter-war period. Tudor Davies - Tudor Davies was a Welsh tenor.
Adamberger, also known by his Italian name Adamonti, was a German operatic tenor.
Vasco Campagnano - Vasco Campagnano was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory.
Victor Capoul - Joseph Victor Amédée Capoul, born in Toulouse on 27 February 1839 and died in Pujaudran on 18 February 1924, was a French operatic tenor with a lyric voice and a graceful singing style.
Victor Warot - Victor Alexandre Warot was a Belgian opera singer.
Viktor Selyavin - Viktor Alekseyevich Selyavin Виктор Алексеевич Селявин was a leading tenor of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater.
More Topics (V)...Vilhelm Herold - Vilhelm Christoffer Herold was an operatic tenor, voice teacher and theatre director. Vincenzo La Scola - Vincenzo La Scola is an Italian tenor who has had a highly successful international opera career for more than 25 years. Virgilijus Noreika - Virgilijus Kęstutis Noreika is a Lithuanian tenor. Vittorio Grigolo - Vittorio Grigolo is an Italian singer. Vladimir Atlantov - Vladimir Andreyevich Atlantov was born February 19, 1939 in Leningrad. More Topics (V)...Vladimir Galouzine - Vladimir Galouzine is a Russian tenor. Vladimir Rosing - Vladimir Sergeyevich Rosing, aka Val Rosing, was a Russian-born operatic tenor and stage director who spent most of his professional career in England and the United States. Volker Bengl - Volker Bengl is a German tenor, born in Ludwigshafen, Rhineland.
Anderson was a Canadian composer, choir director, tenor, and voice teacher of English birth.
Waldemar Kmentt - Waldemar Kmentt is an Austrian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the German repertory, both opera and operetta.
Walter Carringer - Walter Carringer is an American classical tenor who had an active career in operas, concerts, and recitals during the 1950s and 1960s.
Walter Midgley - Walter Midgley was an English operatic tenor who sang leading roles at the Royal Opera House and elsewhere from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Walter Widdop - Walter Widdop was a British operatic tenor of exceptional power and technical skill who is best remembered today for his outstanding Wagnerian performances.
More Topics (W)...Walther Ludwig - Walther Ludwig was a German operatic lyric tenor, particularly associated with Mozart roles and Schubert lieder. Warren Mok - Warren Mok, a world-renowned Hong Kong tenor, has performed many leading roles since his European debut in 1987 at the Deutsche Opera Berlin. Wilhelm Elsner - Wilhelm Elsner was a German operatic tenor who had an active international career from 1889 to 1903. William Cochran (tenor) - William Cochran was born on June 23, 1943, in Columbus, Ohio, and is an internationally-noted Heldentenor. William Diard - William Diard was an American operatic tenor. More Topics (W)...William Lewis (tenor) - William L. Lewis is an American operatic tenor and academic. William Martin (tenor) - William Martin was an American classical tenor. William Matteuzzi - William Matteuzzi is an Italian operatic tenor renowned for his impressive vocal range and prominent upper register, reaching a high F in full voice., which enabled him to participate in the rec... William Pell - William Pell was an American opera singer who had a major international career during the 1980s and 1990s. William Zakariasen - William Zakariasen was an American operatic tenor and music critic. Wolfgang Windgassen - Wolfgang Windgassen was a tenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas.
YFujiwara was a Japanese tenor singer.
Woolley was a Canadian tenor, actor, composer, and music educator of Haitian birth.
Štefan Hoza - Štefan Hoza was a Slovak operatic tenor, actor, librettist, educator, music publicist and historian.Margita - Štefan Margita is a Slovak opera singer who has had an active international career since 1981.
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