super tenor vitas opera #2
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- Published: 21 Apr 2006
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- Author: wendellrsu
man this guy is just nuts! (and so are the translations)
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Alain Vanzo
Alain Vanzo (April 2, 1928 - January 27, 2002)
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Alban Berg
Alban Maria Johannes Berg (February 9, 1885 – December 24, 1935) was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.
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Alfred Piccaver
Alfred Piccaver (5 February 1884 –23 September 1958) in Vienna, was a British-American operatic tenor. He was particularly noted for his performances as Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème and other popular mainstream operatic roles.
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Ambroise Thomas
Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (5 August 1811, Metz – 12 February 1896, Paris) was a French composer, best-known for his operas Mignon (1866) and Hamlet (1868, after Shakespeare) and as Director of the Conservatoire de Paris from 1871 till his death.
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Anthony Laciura
Anthony Laciura (born September 27, 1951) is an American operatic tenor, noted for his abilities as a comprimario. Born in New Orleans, he studied voice there with Charles Paddock, also the teacher of Ticho Parly.
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Antoine Trial
Antoine Trial (13 October 1737, Avignon - 5 February 1795, Paris) was a French singer and actor. He was the younger brother of the musician Jean-Claude Trial (1732-1771) and husband of soprano Marie-Jeanne (Félicité Mandeville) (1746-1818).
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Aureliano Pertile
Aureliano Pertile (9 November 1885, Montagnana -
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Beethoven
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Beniamino Gigli
Beniamino Gigli, (March 20, 1890 - November 30, 1957) was an Italian opera singer. The most famous tenor of his generation, he was renowned internationally for the great beauty of his voice and the soundness of his vocal technique. Music critics sometimes took him to task, however, for what was perceived to be the over-emotionalism of his interpretations. Nevertheless, such was Gigli's talent, he is considered to be one of the very finest tenors in the recorded history of music.
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Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Showing prodigious talent from an early age – he composed Quatre Chansons françaises for soprano and orchestra at the age of fourteen – he first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945 he leapt to international fame, and for the next fifteen years he devoted much of his compositional attention to writing operas, several of which now appear regularly on international stages. Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal (much of it written for the tenor Peter Pears), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music. He also took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, and was a fine pianist and conductor.
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Bernd Aldenhoff
Bernd Aldenhoff (14 June 1908 in Duisburg 8 October 1959 in München) was a German Heldentenor.
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Bizet
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Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns () (9 October 183516 December 1921) was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist, known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, and his Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony).
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Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18–19 November 17864–5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
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Charles Anthony
Charles Anthony Caruso (né Calogero Antonio Caruso, on July 15, 1929), better known by his stage name of Charles Anthony, is an American tenor noted for his portrayal of comprimario characters in opera. Anthony has the distinction of appearing in more performances at the Metropolitan Opera than any other performer. He celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company in 2004, and gave his farewell in the role of the aged Emperor Altoum in Turandot, at the Met, on January 28, 2010.
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Charles Gounod
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Chris Merritt
Chris Merritt (born 1952, Oklahoma City) is an opera singer. He studied piano, singing, dance and drama at Oklahoma City University where he made his first stage appearance in Jacques Offenbach's ''Les contes d'Hoffmann in a university production. At age 21, he was accepted into the summer season Apprentice Program for Singers'' at the Santa Fe Opera.
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Cilea
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Darren Keith Woods
Darren Keith Woods (born 1958, Texas) is an American opera director and operatic tenor. A graduate of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, he began his career as an opera singer in 1982, making his professional debut at the Santa Fe Opera (SFO) as Don Curzio in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. He spent most of his singing career portraying comprimario roles with opera companies throughout North America. Some of his performance credits include appearances with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the Connecticut Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and the Seattle Opera among others. He was a frequent performer at the SFO during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Donizetti
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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor. He sang to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America. Caruso also made approximately 290 commercial recordings of his voice, beginning as early as 1902 in Italy and continuing from 1904 until 1920 in the United States. All of his known surviving recordings are available today on remastered CDs.
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Ernst Haefliger
Ernst Haefliger (July 6, 1919 – 17 March 2007) was a Swiss tenor.
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Ernst Kraus
Ernst Kraus (June 8, 1863 – September 5, 1941) was a German dramatic tenor who made his mark in the operas of Richard Wagner. He first decided to embark on an operatic career when he heard leading singers performing in Nuremberg. He studied voice initially in Milan with Cesare Galliera and then returned to Munich to finish his tuition with Anna Schimon-Regan.
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Evgeny Belyaev
Evgeny Mikhailovich Belyaev, also written as Yevgeny Belyayev (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Беляев), (Klintsy, September 11 1926 – February 21/22 1994) was a Russian tenor soloist of the Alexandrov Ensemble under Boris Alexandrov. He is remembered in the Soviet Union as the Russian Nightingale and in the West as one of the definitive singers of Kalinka.
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Fernando del Valle
Fernando del Valle (né Brian Skinner, 28 February 1964) is an American operatic tenor. He took the name del Valle in honour of his grandfather, Fernando Melendez del Valle, who was also a tenor. He is also the great, great grandson of Andrés del Valle, President of El Salvador in 1876.
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Ferruccio Tagliavini
Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavazzoli, Reggio Emilia, 14 August 1913 - Reggio Emilia, 29 January 1995) was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s. Tagliavini was hailed as the heir apparent to Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli in the lyric-opera repertory due to the exceptional beauty of his voice, but he did not sustain his great early promise across the full span of his career.
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Francesco Marconi
Francesco Marconi (14 May 1853 [or 1855] – 5 February 1916) was an operatic tenor from Rome who enjoyed an important international career. In 1924, a reputable biographical dictionary of musicians called him 'one of the most renowned and esteemed singers of the last 50 years'. Along with his great contemporary Francesco Tamagno (1850–1905), he is the earliest Italian tenor to have left a representative legacy of acoustic recordings.
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Francesco Meli
Francesco Meli (born 1980, Genoa) is an Italian operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto reportoire. He began his vocal studies at age 17 with Norma Palacios at the Conservatorio di Musica "Niccolò Paganini" in Genoa. He later became a pupil of mezzo-soprano Franca Mattiucci. In 2002 he debuted in Verdi's Macbeth and as the tenor soloist in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle and Puccini's Messa di Gloria, broadcast by RAI (the Italian state broadcasting company) from the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto. He has gone on to sing leading roles in La Scala, Teatro Regio di Torino, London's Royal Opera House, Opéra National de Lyon, Zurich Opera, and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro.
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Francesco Merli
Francesco Merli (January 27, 1887, Corsico (Milan) - December 12, 1976, Milan) was an Italian opera singer, particularly associated with heavy roles such as Otello, Canio and Calaf. He ranks as one of the finest dramatic tenors of the inter-war period.
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Francesco Tamagno
Francesco Tamagno (28 December 1850 – 31 August 1905) was an operatic tenor from Italy who sang with enormous success throughout Europe and America. On 5 February 1887, he cemented his place in musical history by creating the role of Otello in Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece of the same name. He is also the earliest Italian tenor to have left a sizeable body of recordings of his voice.
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Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; January 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in genres including art song, solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music. Critic Claude Rostand, in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article, described Poulenc as "half monk, half delinquent" ("le moine et le voyou"), a tag that was to be attached to his name for the rest of his career.
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Franco Bonisolli
Franco Bonisolli (May 25, 1938, Rovereto, Italy - October 30, 2003, Vienna, Austria) was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, notably as Manrico and Calaf.
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Franco Corelli
Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was an Italian tenor who had a major international opera career between 1951 and 1976. Associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory, he was celebrated universally for his powerhouse voice, brilliant top notes, vibrant timbre, passionate singing and remarkable performances. Dubbed the "Prince of tenors", Corelli possessed handsome features and a charismatic stage presence which endeared him to audiences. He had a long and fruitful partnership with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City between 1961 and 1975. He also appeared on the stages of most of the major opera houses in Europe and with opera companies throughout North America.
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Franz Lehár
Franz Lehár (30 April 1870 24 October 1948) was a Hungarian-born composer who worked in Austria. He is mainly known for his operettas of which the most successful and best known is The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe).
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Franz Völker
Franz Völker (born March 31, 1899 in Neu-Isenburg, Germany; died December 4, 1965 in Darmstadt, Germany) was a dramatic tenor who enjoyed a major European career. He excelled in particular as a performer of the operas of Richard Wagner.
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Fritz Wunderlich
Friedrich "Fritz" Karl Otto Wunderlich (September 26, 1930September 17, 1966) was a German lyric tenor, born in Kusel in the Palatinate. His mother was a violinist and his father was a choir-master. For a short time, the family kept the inn "Emrichs Bräustübl". Fritz's father lost his job due to pressure imposed upon him by local Nazis, in addition to suffering from a severe battlefield injury. He committed suicide when Fritz was five years old. The story regarding Wunderlich's discovery parallels many of his contemporaries (notably Nicolai Gedda and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau). As a young man Wunderlich worked in a bakery. At the insistence of neighbors and passers-by who had witnessed his musical gifts and beautiful voice, Wunderlich decided to begin studies in music. He managed to obtain a scholarship in order to pursue his studies at the Freiburg Music Academy where he studied French horn and voice.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), although arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from ''L'elisir d'amore (1832). Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto'' opera.
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Georges Thill
Georges Thill (14 December 1897 – 17 October 1984) was a French opera singer, often considered to be his country's greatest lyric-dramatic tenor. Born in Paris, his career lasted from 1924 to 1953, peaking during the 1930s.
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Gerhard Stolze
Gerhard Stolze (October 1, 1926, Dessau – March 11, 1979, Garmisch-Partenkirchen) was a German tenor.
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Giacchino Rossini
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Giacomo Aragall
Jaume Aragall i Garriga better known as Giacomo Aragall is a Spanish Catalan tenor, born in Barcelona, Spain on 6 June 1939.
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Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (December 11, 1892–March 17, 1979) was an Italian tenor with a lyric-dramatic voice of exceptional range and technical facility. He performed throughout Europe and the Americas in a top-class career that spanned 40 years.
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (; 22 December 185829 November 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La bohème, and "Nessun dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture.
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Gian-Carlo Menotti
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell (William Tell). A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "The Italian Mozart." Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.
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Giovanni Martinelli
Giovanni Martinelli (22 October 1885 – 2 February 1969) was a celebrated Italian operatic tenor. He was particularly associated with the Italian lyric-dramatic repertory, although he performed French operatic roles to great acclaim as well. Martinelli was one of the most famous tenors of the 20th century, enjoying a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appearing at other major international theatres.
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Giovanni Zenatello
Giovanni Zenatello (2 February 1876 - 11 February 1949) was an Italian opera singer. Born in Verona, he enjoyed an international career as a dramatic tenor of the first rank.
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Giuseppe Borgatti
Giuseppe Borgatti (born Cento, March 17, 1871—died Reno di Leggiuno, October 18, 1950) was an Italian dramatic tenor with an outstanding voice. He created the title role in Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and became famous for his performances of the music of Richard Wagner. Borgatti sang leading roles at La Scala, Milan, from 1896 until 1914, but deteriorating eyesight caused by the disease glaucoma put a premature end to his stage career.
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Giuseppe di Stefano
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Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century. His works are frequently performed in opera houses throughout the world and, transcending the boundaries of the genre, some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture - such as "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto, "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco, "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song) from La traviata and the "Grand March" from Aida. Although his work was sometimes criticized for using a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom and having a tendency toward melodrama, Verdi’s masterworks dominate the standard repertoire a century and a half after their composition.
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Gounod
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Graham Clark (tenor)
Graham Clark (born in 1941, Lancashire, England) is an English opera tenor, mainly known for his character roles like Loge (Das Rheingold), Mime (Siegfried) and the Captain (Wozzeck). He has sung at all the leading North American and European opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera (14 seasons) and Bayreuth Festival (16 seasons) and he has recorded for all the major companies.
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Gösta Winbergh
Gösta Winbergh (December 30, 1943 – March 18, 2002) was a Swedish tenor and Mozart admirer.
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Hans Hopf
Hans Hopf (August 2, 1916, Nuremberg - June 25, 1993, Munich) was a German operatic tenor, one of the leading heldentenors of the immediate postwar period.
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Heinrich Knote
Heinrich Knote (November 26, 1870 – January 15, 1953) was an outstanding German dramatic tenor with an international reputation.
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Heinz Zednik
Heinz Zednik (born February 21, 1940) is an Austrian operatic tenor, closely associated with the character tenor roles of Wagner such as Mime and Loge (Der Ring des Nibelungen) and David (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg). He is also distinguished in roles such as Valzacchi (Der Rosenkavalier), Monostatos (The Magic Flute), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), the Scribe (Khovanshchina), the Captain in Wozzeck, and the Director (Luciano Berio's Un re in ascolto).
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Helge Rosvaenge
Helge Rosvaenge (Roswaenge, Rosvænge), Helge Anton Rosenvinge Hansen, (August 29, 1897 in Copenhagen – June 17, 1972 in Munich) was a famous Danish operatic tenor whose career was centred on Germany and Austria, before, during and after World War II.
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Ian Bostridge
Ian Bostridge CBE (born 25 December 1964) is an acclaimed English tenor, well known for his performances as an opera singer and as a song recitalist.
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Ivan Kozlovsky
Ivan Semyonovitch Kozlovsky (, ; also referred to as Kozlovskiy or Kozlovskij) ( - December 21, 1993) 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 teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.
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Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (born Jacob Offenbach; 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. Of German-Jewish ancestry, he was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory.
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Jacques Pottier
Jacques Pottier (born 17 August 1930) is a French operatic tenor who made many recordings during his career and was a Principal Tenor of the Opéra National de Paris. He later became a renowned singing teacher. He has made a come back in recording an album of famous Opera arias in his 80th year. His voice can be classified as Lyric tenor and still reaches easily the High C.
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Jacques Urlus
Jacques Urlus (January 6, 1867 in Hergenrath, near Aachen - June 6, 1935 in Noordwijk, Netherlands), was a Dutch dramatic tenor. He sang to great critical acclaim at major opera houses on both sides of the Atlantic, and his records of the music of Richard Wagner are considered to be among the finest ever made.
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James King (tenor)
James King (May 22, 1925 – November 20, 2005) was widely regarded as the finest American heldentenor of the post-war period.
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James McCracken
James McCracken (December 16, 1926 – April 29, 1988) was an American operatic tenor. At the time of his death The New York Times stated that McCracken was "the most successful dramatic tenor yet produced by the United States and a pillar of the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s and 1970s."
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Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce (June 3, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was an American operatic tenor. He is the father of film director Larry Peerce.
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Jean de Reszke
Jean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw, (14 January 1850 – 3 April 1925), was a Polish tenor. Renowned internationally for the high quality of his singing and the elegance of his bearing, he became the biggest male opera star of the late 19th century.
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Jess Thomas
Jess Thomas (August 4, 1927, Hot Springs, South Dakota—October 11, 1993, San Francisco, California) was a Wagnerian tenor. As a child he took part in various musical activities and later studied psychology at the University of Nebraska and Stanford University. He was awarded the Wagner medal at Bayreuth, Germany in 1963. His many appearances in North America and Europe between the late 1950s and early 1980s included 15 seasons in 109 performances of 15 roles at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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Johann Strauss II
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Johann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 – June 3, 1899; also known as fully Johann Baptist Strauss, and Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son () was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century.
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John Aler
John Aler (born October 4, 1949 , Baltimore, Maryland) 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, Bellini, and Handel.
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John van Kesteren
John van Kesteren (born May 4, 1921, The Hague - died July 11, 2008, Jupiter, Florida) was a Dutch operatic tenor.
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Jon Vickers
Jonathan Stewart Vickers, CC (born October 29, 1926), known professionally as Jon Vickers, is a retired Canadian heldentenor.
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Jonas Kaufmann
Jonas Kaufmann (born 1969) is a lirico spinto tenor born in Munich, Germany.
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Josef Tichatschek
Josef Aloys Tichatschek (11 July 1807 – 18 January 1886), originally Tichaček, was a Bohemian opera singer highly regarded by Richard Wagner. He created the title roles in Wagner's operas Rienzi and Tannhäuser. As the first of the great Wagnerian tenors, he effectively was the original Heldentenor (although it is unlikely that his voice was as powerful as that of 20th-century Heldentenors such as Lauritz Melchior or Jon Vickers).
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Joseph Calleja
Joseph Calleja, (born 22 January 1978), is a Maltese tenor. He began singing at the age of 16, and being discovered by Paul Asciak, continued his studies with him. At 19, he made his operatic debut as Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth at Astra Theatre in Gozo and went on to become a prize winner at the Belvedere Hans Gabor competition the same year. In 1998 he won the Caruso Competition in Milan and was a prize winner in Plácido Domingo's Operalia International Opera Competition in 1999. He has since been considered one of the most promising young tenors of the 21st century.
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Joseph Schmidt
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Joseph Schmidt (March 4, 1904 – November 16, 1942) was a Jewish Romanian tenor and actor. He was born in Davideny (Ukrainian: Davydivka), a small town in the Bukovina province of Austria-Hungary, later Romania and now part of Ukraine.
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José Carreras
Josep Maria Carreras i Coll (; born 5 December 1946), better known as José Carreras (), is a Catalan Spanish tenor particularly known for his performances in the operas of Verdi and Puccini. Born in Barcelona, he made his debut on the opera stage at the age of 11 as Trujamán in Manuel de Falla's El retablo de Maese Pedro and went on to a career that encompassed over 60 roles on the stages of the world's leading opera houses and in the recording studio. He gained fame with a wider audience as one of The Three Tenors along with Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in a series of mass concerts that began in 1990 and continued until 2003. Carreras is also known for his humanitarian work as the president of the José Carreras International Leukaemia Foundation (La Fundació Internacional Josep Carreras per a la Lluita contra la Leucèmia), which he established following his own recovery from the disease in 1988.
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Juan Diego Flórez
Juan Diego Flórez (born January 13, 1973 in Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Sol del Perú.
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Jules Massenet
Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842August 13, 1912) was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas fell into almost total oblivion. Apart from Manon and Werther, his works were rarely performed. However, since the mid-1970s, many operas of his such as Thaïs and Esclarmonde have undergone periodic revivals.
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Jussi Björling
Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling (5 February 1911 – 9 September 1960) was a Swedish tenor. One of the leading operatic singers of the 20th Century, Björling appeared frequently at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as well as at many major European opera houses.
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Karel Burian
Karel Burian (also Carl Burrian) (12 January 1870 - 25 September 1924) was a renowned Czech operatic tenor who had an active international career spanning the 1890s to the 1920s. A Heldentenor, Burian earned acclaim in Europe and America for his powerful performances of the heaviest Wagnerian roles. His voice is preserved on numerous recordings made for Pathé Records, the Gramophone Company, the Gramophone & Typewriter Company (and its successor HMV) and the Victor Recording Company.
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Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior (March 20, 1890 – March 18, 1973) was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type.
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Lawrence Brownlee
Lawrence Brownlee (born 1972 in Youngstown, Ohio) is an American operatic tenor particularly associated with the bel canto repertoire. He was named Seattle Opera's Artist of the Year in 2008 for his performances as Arturo in Bellini's I puritani. He has also received the Marian Anderson and Richard Tucker awards. He made his debut at the New York Metropolitan Opera on 26 April 2007 as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville. In a departure from his usual repertoire, he created the role of Syme in Lorin Maazel's opera 1984 in its world premiere at London's Royal Opera House on 3 May 2005. In May 2010, Brownlee performed a concert with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves in the United States Supreme Court Building for the Supreme Court justices.
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Leoncavallo
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Leonid Sobinov
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Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov (, June 7 [OS May 26] 1872, Yaroslavl – October 14, 1934, Riga) was an acclaimed Imperial Russian and Soviet-era opera singer, and a People's Artist of the RSFSR (bestowed on him in 1923). His voice can best be described as that of a lyric tenor and he was extremely popular with both Tsarist and post-1917, Russian Revolutionary audiences.
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (12 October 1935 – 6 September 2007) was an Italian operatic tenor, who also crossed over into popular music, eventually becoming one of the most commercially successful tenors of all time. He was one of "The Three Tenors" and became well-known for his televised concerts and media appearances. Pavarotti was also noted for his charity work on behalf of refugees and the Red Cross, amongst others.
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Ludwig Suthaus
Ludwig Suthaus (December 12, 1906 – September 7, 1971) was a German opera singer ("Heldentenor"), who was born in Cologne and died in West Berlin.
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Luigi Alva
Luis Ernesto Alva Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva (10 April 1927) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, active in the third quarter of the 20th century. He was admired for his purity of tone, the elegance of his phrasing and the clarity of his diction. A Mozart and Rossini specialist, Alva excelled in roles such as Don Ottavio (in Don Giovanni), Count Almaviva (in Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Fenton (in Verdi's Falstaff).
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Léon Escalais
Léon Escalaïs (August 8, 1859, Cuxac-d'Aude - November 8, 1941, Paris) was a prominent Gallic tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian heroic roles. His lean, nimble yet power-packed voice became legendary for the ease and brilliance of its upper register.
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Léopold Simoneau
Léopold Simoneau, CC, CQ (May 3, 1916 - August 24, 2006) was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time. In 1959 he became the first recipient of the Calixa-Lavallée Award.
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Marcelo Álvarez
Marcelo Raúl Álvarez, (born February 27, 1962 in Córdoba, Argentina), is an Argentine lyric tenor who achieved international success starting in the mid-1990s.
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Mario del Monaco
Mario Del Monaco (July 27, 1915 - October 16, 1982) was an Italian tenor and is regarded by his admirers as being one of the greatest dramatic tenors of the 20th Century.
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Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (January 31, 1921 - October 7, 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian immigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 15. Orchestral conductor Arturo Toscanini would reputedly later call him "the greatest voice of the twentieth century." Others referred to him extravagantly as the "new Caruso", after his "instant success" in Hollywood films, while MGM hoped that he would become the movie studio's "singing Clark Gable" due to his good looks and powerful voice.
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Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875December 28, 1937) was a French composer of Impressionist music known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire.
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Michel Sénéchal
Michel Sénéchal ( born 11 February 1927) is a French tenor, particularly associated with French and Italian character roles in a repertory ranging from Baroque to contemporary works.
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Miguel Fleta
Miguel Burró Fleta (1 December or 28 December 1897, Albalate de Cinca, Huesca Province, Spain - 28 May or 30 May 1938, A Coruña) was a Spanish operatic tenor.
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Mozart
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Nico Castel
Nico Castel (born August 1, 1931) 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.
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Nicolai Gedda
The Swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda (born July 11, 1925) is a famous opera singer and recitalist. Having made some two hundred recordings, Gedda is said to be the most widely recorded tenor in history. Gedda's singing is best known for his beauty of tone, vocal control, and musical perception.
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Otto Nicolai
Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai (9 June 1810 – 11 May 1849) was a German composer, conductor, and founder of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor (Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor). In addition to five operas, Nicolai composed lieder, works for orchestra, chorus, ensemble, and solo instruments.
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Peter Schreier
Peter Schreier (born July 29, 1935) is a German tenor and conductor.
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Piero de Palma
Piero de Palma (b. 1916) is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles.
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Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (December 7, 1863 – August 2, 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. However, though it has been stated that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, this is inaccurate. ''L'amico Fritz and Iris have been popular in Europe since their respective premieres. In fact, Mascagni himself claimed that at one point Iris was performed in Italy more often than Cavalleria'' (cf. Stivender).
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Piotr Beczała
Piotr Beczała (born December 28, 1966 in Czechowice-Dziedzice) is a Polish operatic tenor.
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Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil KBE (born 21 January 1941), better known as Plácido Domingo, is a Spanish tenor and conductor known for his versatile and strong voice, possessing a ringing and dramatic tone throughout its range. In March 2008, he debuted in his 128th opera role, giving Domingo more roles than any other tenor. One of The Three Tenors, he has also taken on conducting opera and concert performances, as well as serving as the General Director of the Washington National Opera in Washington, D.C. and the Los Angeles Opera in California. His contracts in both Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. have been extended through the 2010–2011 season.
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Puccini
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Ramon Vinay
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Ramón Vargas
Ramón Vargas (born 11 September 1960) is an award-winning Mexican operatic tenor. Since his debut in the early '90s, he has developed to become one of the most acclaimed tenors of the 21st century. Known for his most expressive and agile lyric tenor voice, he is especially successful in the bel canto repertoire.
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Raúl Giménez
Raúl Giménez (Buenos Aires, 1951) 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.
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René Kollo
René Kollo (born November 20, 1937) is a German tenor.
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Richard Cassilly
Richard Cassilly (14 December 1927 – 30 January 1998) was an American operatic tenor who had a major international opera career between 1954 and 1990. Cassilly "was a mainstay in the heldentenor repertory in opera houses around the world for 30 years", and particularly excelled in Wagnerian roles like Tristan, Siegmund and Tannhäuser, and in dramatic parts that required both stamina and vocal weight, such as Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello" and Camille Saint-Saëns's "Samson". He was also an admired Don José in Carmen and sang almost all of the leading Puccini tenor roles. Standing at 6 foot 3 and possessing a 250-pound frame The New York Times described him as "a burly tenor with a bright ping on the top notes who had a supple lyric quality [to his voice]", and "was known to bring a musical intelligence and uncommonly clear diction to his work."
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Richard Crooks
Richard Alexander Crooks (June 26, 1900, Trenton, New JerseySeptember 29, 1972, Portola Valley, California) was an American tenor and a leading singer at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He had a sweet-toned voice and many critics consider him to be the best lyric tenor ever produced by the United States.
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Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was an Austrian tenor acclaimed as one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang".
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Richard Tucker
Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913–January 8, 1975) was an American operatic tenor.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (, ; 22 May 1813 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works. Famous extracts from his operas include the "Ride of the Valkyries" and the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin, popularly known as the wedding march "Here Comes the Bride".
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Roberto Alagna
Roberto Alagna (born 7 June 1963) is a French operatic tenor of Sicilian (Italian) descent. He was born in Clichy-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
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Rockwell Blake
Rockwell Blake (born January 10, 1951 in Plattsburgh, New York) is an American operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in Rossini operas. He was the first winner of the Richard Tucker Award.
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Rolando Villazón
Emilio Rolando Villazón Mauleón (born February 22, 1972), is a Mexican-born tenor who settled in France and in 2007 became a French citizen. He is of Austrian descent by his grandparents.
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Rossini
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo (; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer. His opera Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the operatic repertory, appearing as number 14 on Opera America's 2007 list of the 20 most-performed operas in North America.
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Salvatore Fisichella
Salvatore Fisichella (born May 15, 1943 in Catania, Sicily) is an Italian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas, especially those of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. He has been recognized for the ease and vocal brilliance of his singing, and for having sung more of the leading roles in Bellini's operas than any other 20th century tenor.Niny Ganguzza, Premio > Nicolosi, Fisichella e una festa per il Cigno, La Sicilia, p 29, 18 October 1994
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Sergei Lemeshev
Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev (, born , Staroye Knyazevo, Tver District – died June 26, 1977, Moscow) was a Soviet operatic lyric tenor.
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Set Svanholm
Set Svanholm (2 September 1904 – 4 October 1964) was a Swedish operatic tenor, considered the leading Tristan and Siegfried of the first decade following World War II.
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Tchaikovsky
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Ticho Parly
Ticho Parly (né Frederick Christiansen) (July 16, 1928 – June 21, 1993) 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 as Tristan opposite Birgit Nilsson in Tristan und Isolde.
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Tito Schipa
Tito Schipa (27 December 1888 – 16 December 1965) was an Italian tenor. He is considered one of the finest tenore di grazia in operatic history. He was endowed with a natural, sensuous voice which he deployed with great intelligence and taste.
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Topi Lehtipuu
Topi Lehtipuu (born 24 March 1971 in Brisbane, Australia) is a Finnish operatic tenor. He has sung a variety of roles from different periods, including the title role in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring at the Finnish National Opera, several roles in Mozart operas, including Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, both at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, and Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the Glyndebourne Festival (2006). He has also appeared in Handel's Ariodante (Paris Opera) and as Hylas in Berlioz' Les Troyens (conducted by John Eliot Gardiner). He has worked with other well-known conductors, such as William Christie, Michel Corboz, René Jacobs, Simon Rattle, and Christophe Rousset.
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Umberto Giordano
Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano (28 August 1867 – 12 November 1948) was an Italian composer, mainly of operas.
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Verdi
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Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer. His most famous works are La sonnambula (1831), Norma (1831) and I puritani (1835). Known for his long flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera.
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Wagner
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Wilhelm Elsner
Wilhelm Elsner (10 November 1869- 26 August 1903) was a German operatic tenor who had an active international career from 1889 to 1903. Although his initial success was primarily in the lyric repertoire, he eventually became highly regaurded for his portrayals of Wagnerian heroes.
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William Matteuzzi
William Matteuzzi (born 12 December 1957 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian operatic tenor renowned for his impressive vocal range and prominent upper register, reaching a high F (above the tenor high C) in full voice., which enabled him to participate in the recent revival of the tenore contraltino repertoire. He is also admired as a fine musician and elegant vocalist.
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Wolfgang Windgassen
Wolfgang Windgassen (June 26, 1914 – September 8, 1974) was a tenor internationally known for his performances in Wagner operas.
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- Alain Vanzo
- Alban Berg
- Alfred Piccaver
- alto
- Ambroise Thomas
- Andrea Chénier
- Anthony Laciura
- Antoine Trial
- Arnold
- Aureliano Pertile
- Aïda
- Barbershop music
- baritone
- Baroque music
- Bass (vocal range)
- bass (voice)
- Beethoven
- Beniamino Gigli
- Benjamin Britten
- Bernd Aldenhoff
- Bizet
- bluegrass music
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Candide (operetta)
- Cantus firmus
- Carl Maria von Weber
- Carmen
- Cavalleria rusticana
- Cesare Valletti
- Charles Anthony
- Charles Gounod
- Choir
- Chris Merritt
- Cilea
- Coloratura soprano
- comic operetta
- Così fan tutte
- countertenor
- Darren Keith Woods
- Das Rheingold
- Der Freischütz
- Der Zigeunerbaron
- Die Fledermaus
- Die Lustige Witwe
- Die Walküre
- Don Carlo
- Don Giovanni
- Don Pasquale
- Donizetti
- Enrico Caruso
- Ernani
- Ernst Haefliger
- Ernst Kraus
- Evgeny Belyaev
- fach
- falsetto
- Falstaff (opera)
- Faust (opera)
- Fernando del Valle
- Ferruccio Tagliavini
- Fidelio
- fioritura
- Francesco Marconi
- Francesco Meli
- Francesco Merli
- Francesco Tamagno
- Francis Poulenc
- Franco Bonisolli
- Franco Corelli
- Franz Lehár
- Franz Völker
- Fritz Wunderlich
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Georges Thill
- Gerhard Stolze
- Giacchino Rossini
- Giacomo Aragall
- Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
- Giacomo Puccini
- Gian-Carlo Menotti
- Gianni Schicchi
- Gilbert and Sullivan
- Gioachino Rossini
- Giovanni Martinelli
- Giovanni Zenatello
- Giuseppe Borgatti
- Giuseppe di Stefano
- Giuseppe Giacomini
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Gounod
- Graham Clark (tenor)
- Gösta Winbergh
- Götterdämmerung
- Hans Hopf
- harmonic
- Heinrich Knote
- Heinz Zednik
- Helge Rosvaenge
- I Pagliacci
- I puritani
- Ian Bostridge
- Idomeneo
- Il trovatore
- Ivan Kozlovsky
- Jacques Offenbach
- Jacques Pottier
- Jacques Urlus
- James King (tenor)
- James McCracken
- Jan Peerce
- Jean de Reszke
- Jerry Hadley
- Jess Thomas
- Johann Strauss II
- John Aler
- John van Kesteren
- Jon Vickers
- Jonas Kaufmann
- Josef Tichatschek
- Joseph Calleja
- Joseph Oparamanuike
- Joseph Schmidt
- José Carreras
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Jules Massenet
- Jussi Björling
- Karel Burian
- L'italiana in Algeri
- La belle Hélène
- La Bohème
- La Cenerentola
- La Fille du Régiment
- La Finta Giardiniera
- La forza del destino
- La Sonnambula
- La traviata
- Latin
- Lauritz Melchior
- Lawrence Brownlee
- Leoncavallo
- Leonid Sobinov
- Lohengrin (opera)
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Luciano Pavarotti
- Ludwig Suthaus
- Luigi Alva
- Léon Escalais
- Léopold Simoneau
- Macbeth (opera)
- Madama Butterfly
- Manon Lescaut
- Marcelo Álvarez
- Mario del Monaco
- Mario Lanza
- Maurice Ravel
- Max Lorenz
- Michel Sénéchal
- Middle Ages
- middle C
- Mignon
- Miguel Fleta
- modal register
- Mozart
- musical theatre
- Nico Castel
- Nicolai Gedda
- Norma (opera)
- opera
- opéra comique
- Orphée aux enfers
- Otello
- Otto Nicolai
- Pagliacci
- Parsifal
- passaggio
- Peter Grimes
- Peter Hofmann
- Peter Schreier
- Piero de Palma
- Pietro Mascagni
- Piotr Beczała
- Plácido Domingo
- polyphony
- pop music
- Puccini
- Queen of Spades
- Ramon Vinay
- Ramón Vargas
- Range (music)
- Raúl Giménez
- Renaissance
- René Kollo
- Richard Cassilly
- Richard Crooks
- Richard Tauber
- Richard Tucker
- Richard Wagner
- Rigoletto
- Roberto Alagna
- Rockwell Blake
- Rolando Villazón
- Romantische Oper
- Roméo et Juliette
- Rossini
- Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Salome (opera)
- Salvatore Fisichella
- Sergei Lemeshev
- Set Svanholm
- Siegfried (opera)
- soprano
- Stiffelio
- Tannhäuser (opera)
- Tchaikovsky
- tenor C
- tenor saxophone
- Tenore di grazia
- tessitura
- The Consul
- The Desert Song
- The Magic Flute
- The Student Prince
- Ticho Parly
- timbre
- Tito Schipa
- Topi Lehtipuu
- Tosca
- Tristan und Isolde
- Turandot
- Umberto Giordano
- Un ballo in maschera
- Verdi
- Vincenzo Bellini
- vocal range
- vocal resonance
- vocal weight
- voice type
- Wagner
- Werther
- Wilhelm Elsner
- William Matteuzzi
- Wolfgang Windgassen
- Wozzeck
Jimi Tenor - Take Me Baby
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- Duration: 3:43
- Published: 30 Oct 2007
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- Author: ZaprehikZoo
Take Me Baby p1996, WARP Records Evil_Sonic 4 E.Flux
Luciano Pavarotti "O Sole Mio" Three Tenors Rome 1990
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- Duration: 2:05
- Published: 09 Aug 2008
- Uploaded: 19 Mar 2011
- Author: 235binelli
Big Luciano Pavarotti and "O Sole Mio" The Three Tenors: The Spanish Tenor Plácido Domingo, the Spanish / Mexican Tenor José Carreras and the Italian Tenor Luciano Pavarotti. The trio began their collaboration with a concert at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome held on the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup final in Italy, on July 7, 1990, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma for more info visit www.italianbusinessguide.com O SOLE MIO - 1898 Capurro - Eduardo De Capua "'O sole mio" is a globally known Neapolitan song written in 1898. It has been performed and covered by many artists, including such stalwarts of opera as Enrico Caruso, Mario Lanza, The Three Tenors, as well as rock/pop artists such Bryan Adams and Elvis Presley. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro, and the melody was composed by Eduardo di Capua. Though there are versions in other languages, 'O sole mio is usually sung in the original Neapolitan language. 'O sole mio is the Neapolitan equivalent of Standard Italian Il sole mio and translates literally as "My Sun" (not "Oh My Sun) O sole Mio - Neapolitan lyrics Che bella cosa e' na jurnata 'e sole, n'aria serena doppo na tempesta! Pe' ll'aria fresca pare già na festa Che bella cosa e' na jurnata 'e sole Ma n'atu sole, cchiù bello, oje ne' 'O sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! 'O sole, 'o sole mio sta 'nfronte a te! sta 'nfronte a te! Quanno fa notte e 'o sole se ne scenne <b>...</b>
Ivan Renta, tenor sax solo
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- Duration: 9:54
- Published: 01 Nov 2006
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- Author: martincongahead
Puerto Rican born star sax player performs a solo on tenor sax for Profiles in Greatness©. He has worked with Eddie Palmieri, Tito Puente and the Lincoln Center Afro Carribean Jazz Orchestra.
Tim Jackson Tenor Solo
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- Published: 24 Feb 2007
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Jackson Beasts Tenors
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
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- Duration: 2:07
- Published: 30 Dec 2006
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- Author: JazzVideoGuy
Solo transcription for Tenor Madness and other great Rollins solos: www.sonnyrollins.com This performance from the Antibes Jazz Festival, 2005. Video Director Patrick Savey for Zycopolis Productions. Check out more cool Zycopolis videos: www.youtube.com
Granada - (Pavarotti)
Granada - (Pavarotti)
The Three Tenors - Amapola
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- Duration: 1:39
- Published: 02 Jul 2007
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- Author: valdezalcantara
Domingo, Carreras And Pavarotti in the Three Tenors concert 1990
Tenor Ukulele Comparison -with 4 ukes!
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- Duration: 2:27
- Published: 20 May 2008
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- Author: UKISOCIETY
Three from Bluegrass Ukuleles and 1 Fluke Tenor
Beyoncé - Halo - Alto and Tenor Saxophone Duet
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- Duration: 4:42
- Published: 09 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 23 Mar 2011
- Author: charlez360
Become a charlez360 fan on Facebook! www.facebook.com This is me, charlez360, playing my Yamaha (YAS-275, 4C mouthpiece) Alto saxophone and myJean-Baptiste (480T, Dukoff D7 mouthpiece) to Beyoncé Knowles' hit, "Halo." I actually heard this yesterday for the first time. I feel like a douche because I had never heard it before, and it's been so popular. Ok, I pick up the alto in this vid, it's definitely been a while. I just wanted to remind you guys that I can "Giit R Done" with my alto too, even though I prefer tenor. Enjoy, I appreciate all ratings, comments, favorites, and of course, subscriptions. IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANY OF MY SONGS FREE, GO TO: charlez-360.skyrock.com IF YOU WANT FREE SHEET MUSIC: SUBSCRIBE AND SEND ME A MESSAGE! FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions): 1.) How old are you? 18 (Birthday: April 3, 1991) 2.) How long have you been playing sax? Alto: 8 years Tenor: 1.5 years. 3.) When you record, do you have sheet music in front of you? No. I write the sheet music 2 weeks after I upload the video. 4.) Where do you get your sheet music? I write it. 5.) What kind of saxes/mouthpieces/reeds do you use? Alto: Yamaha YAS-275, 4C mouthpiece, Rico Royal 2.5. Tenor: Jean-Baptiste 480T, Dukoff D7 mouthpiece, Rico Royal 2.5. 6.) Can I add you on MSN, Facebook, Myspace, etc.? Yes, you can add me on MSN using my email, my Myspace is at the bottom, and for Facebook, just search "Charlie Lamprecht." charlez360@hotmail.com www.youtube.com
Emily Remler - Tenor Madness
Emily Remler plays her interpretation of the Sonny Rollins classic 'Tenor Madness' on Australian TV in May 1989. Visit the wonderful Emily Remler site: www.allthingsemily.com
Tenor Saw - pumpkin belly
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- Duration: 3:05
- Published: 13 Feb 2009
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Tenor Saw, Burro Banton, Cutty Ranks, Supercat live 1985
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- Duration: 9:54
- Published: 17 Jun 2008
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- Author: christofxyz
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Tenor Saw, Nicodemus, Burro Banton, Cutty Ranks, Little John, Super Cat. Stereo Mars @ Skateland 1985. Halfway Tree, Kingston, Jamaica.
Selmer Mark VI Tenor Saxophone For Sale on Ebay
Mark 6 tenor sax up for grabs on Ebay. Excellent condition, 1965
Tenor Sing-Off - Faust high C - 15 tenors
Stereo: www.youtube.com I thought I might try my hand at the cage match/sing-off business---what better way than with Faust's famous high C in his aria "Salut! demeure chaste et pure"! rank/list your favorites---your tenors in chronological order: 1. Enrico Caruso, 1910; studio recording 2. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, 1928; studio recording 3. George Thill, 1930; studio recording 4. Beniamino Gigli, 1935; studio recording 5. Richard Tucker, 1953; New Orleans 6. Jan Peerce, 1955 - Metropolitan Opera 7. Jussi Bjoerling , 1959 - Metropolitan Opera 8. Nicolai Gedda, 1971 - Teatro Colon 9. Jaime Aragall, 1971 - Barcelona Liceu 10. Placido Domingo, 1972 - Metropolitan Opera 11. Alfredo Kraus, 1973 - Tokyo 12. Neil Shicoff, 1987 - Lyric Opera of Chicago 13. Richard Leech, 1991 - Metropolitan Opera 14. Roberto Alagna, 2004 - Metropolitan Opera 15. Piotr Beczala, 2005 - Bad-Kissengen Festival
Pono Ukuleles - Soprano, Tenor, Concert & Baritone
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www.hawaiimusicsupply.com - Pono Ukuleles, Types of Ukuleles - Soprano, Tenor Concert & Baritone. Aaron from www.hawaiimusicsupply.com explains the different types of of ukuleles there are.
3 tenors in concert 1994 - Domingo - Those were the days
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3 tenors in concert 1994 - Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras - Those were the days
Ben Heppner, Great dram tenor
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WAGNER,Lohengrin im ferne Land Benn Heppner , James levine leitung. Berlin orchestra
The Three Tenors - Nessun Dorma
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Domingo, Carreras And Pavarotti in the Three Tenors concert 1990
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Turandot - "Nessun dorma" - Plácido Domingo, tenor
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Plácido Domingo sings "Nessun dorma" of the opera Turandot Probably one of the best recording of this aria Studio recording with Herbert von Karajan
The dueling tenor's- part 2- "Che Gelida Manina" Lanza, Pav.
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Part 2- Che Gelida Manina from Puccini's "La Boheme." This is inspired by some other postings such as "tenor cage match" etc. In many ways comparisons are unfair, but we always wind up comparing anyway,:-) So I thought it would be interesting to compare 2 tenors singing an aria phrase-by-phrase so to speak. I'm all for FRIENDLY debate, please avoid profanity or you will be blocked. This is not to detract from the accomplishments of either singer. Ideally you will appreciate them both for their own unique talents. I personally prefer Lanza to Pavarotti, but that's just me. Please state the reasons for your preference when posting. :) Enjoy, and I may make more of these in the future, perhaps with other singers as well.
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Plácido Domingo
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Two mouthpieces for tenor saxophone; the one on the left is rubber; the one on the right is Metal.
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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The Canadian Tenors performs during the David Foster And Friends concert at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Florida: 01.11.09
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*** FILE *** Tenor Luciano Pavarotti smiles at a press-conference Friday May 20, 2005 in Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro. Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C´s and ebullient showmanship made him one the most beloved tenors, has died, his manager said Thurs
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In this Jan. 31, 2008 file photo, star tenor Jose Carreras sings during the opening of Vienna's traditional Opera Ball at Vienna's State Opera.
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**FILE** Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti smiles during a press conference in Stuttgart, Germany, in this Oct. 13, 2005 file photo. Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C´s and ebullient showmanship made him one the most beloved tenors, has died, his manag
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Prest's wife and the Stonemason from an 1887 edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs
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Star tenor Placido Domingo gestures as he performs during his concert in Germany during his 2005 world tour in Berlin late Saturday night, Aug. 6, 2005. (AP Photo/ Jan Bauer)
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In commemoration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, the State Department´s Office of Civil Rights invited employees to an event with Secretary Powell and the Spanish tenor and conductor, Placido Domingo, on October 15, 2003
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Elgar's "The Kingdom" at Kings
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CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER NAME FROM ALESSNDRA TO ALESSANDRA ** The coffin of late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti leaves the Modena´s Duomo, Italy, after the funeral service, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. Pavarotti, whose vibrant high "Cs" and ebu
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A view of the open tomb in the Pavarotti family private chapel in the Montalto´s cemetery, near Modena, Italy, where the body of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti will be buried after the funeral service Saturday. Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C&acut;
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People wait in a line to pay their homage to late Ialian tenor Luciano Pavarotti in Modena´s Duomo where he is layed in state, northern Italy, Friday, Sept. 7, 2007. Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C´s and ebullient showmanship made him the mos
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Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C (A4) in choral music, and up to high C (C5) in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2 (two Bs below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to two Fs above middle C (F5).
David Fallows, Owen Jander. Tenor, Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy, grovemusic.com (subscription required)
The term tenor is also applied to instruments, such as the tenor saxophone, to indicate their range in relation to other instruments of the same group.
Within opera, the lowest note in the standard tenor repertoire is A2 (Mime, Herod), but few roles fall below C3 (one octave below middle C). The high extreme: a few tenor roles in the standard repertoire call for a "tenor C" (C5, one octave above middle C). Most (if not all) of the few top Cs in the standard operatic repertoire are either optional (such as in Che gelida manina in Puccini's La Boheme) or interpolated (added) by tradition (such as in Di quella pira from Verdi's Il Trovatore). Some operatic roles for tenor require a darker timbre and fewer high notes. In the leggiero repertoire the highest note is an F5 (Arturo in I puritani), therefore, very few tenors can have this role in their repertoire.. A shift in pitch since the mid 19th century means that the few written top Cs (such as in Salut demeure from Gounod's Faust) would have in fact demanded a note at least a semitone lower than today's standard pitch.
Within musical theatre, most tenor roles are written between B2 and A4, especially the romantic leads, although some fall as low as A2 and others as high as G5.
Origin of the term
The name "tenor" derives from the Latin word tenere, which means "to hold". In medieval and Renaissance polyphony between about 1250 and 1500, the tenor was the structurally fundamental (or ‘holding’) voice, vocal or instrumental. All other voices were normally calculated in relation to the tenor, which often proceeded in longer note values and carried a borrowed Cantus firmus melody. Until the late 15th century introduction of the contratenor bassus, the tenor was usually the lowest voice, assuming the role of providing a harmonic foundation. It was also in the 15th century that "tenor" came to signify the male voice that sang such parts. Thus, for earlier repertoire, a line marked 'tenor' indicated the part's role, and not the required voice type. Indeed, even as late as the eighteenth century, partbooks labelled 'tenor' might contain parts for a range of voice types.
Tenor in choral music
In four-part choral music, the tenor is the second lowest voice, above the bass and below the soprano and alto. While certain choral music does require the first tenors to ascend the full tenor range, the majority of choral music places the tenors in the range from approximately B2 up to A4. The requirements of the tenor voice in choral music are also tied to the style of music most often performed by a given choir. Orchestra choruses require tenors with fully resonant voices, but chamber or a cappella choral music (sung with no instrumental accompaniment) can rely on light baritones singing in falsetto.Even so, one nearly ubiquitous facet of choral singing is the shortage of tenor voices. Most men tend to have baritone voices and for this reason the majority of men tend to prefer singing in the bass section of a choir (however, true basses are even rarer than tenors). Some men are asked to sing tenor even if they lack the full range, and sometimes low altos are asked to sing the tenor part.
In bluegrass music, the melody line is called the lead. Tenor is sung an interval of a third above the lead. Baritone is the fifth of the scale that has the lead as a tonic, and may be sung below the lead, or even above the lead (and the tenor), in which case it is called "high baritone."
A tenor is also classified as a drum used in a drum corps. or drum-line. The tenor drum consists of 5 or 6 drums of different tones, 4, 3, 2, 1, and one or two spocks. 4 is the lowest sounding drum and the right spock is the highest sounding drum. Tenors are also referred to as quads because of the four main drums, or quints including the spocks. The tenors, in a drum cadence, are usually a combination of bass drum and snare drum beats to give the cadence more of a groove.
Though strictly not musical, the Muslim call to prayer (azan) is always chanted by tenors, possibly due to the highly placed resonance of the tenor voice which allows it to be heard from a longer distance than baritones or basses during pre-amplification times. Some such chanters (termed bilals) may modulate up to E3 in certain passages, while incorporating a distinctive Middle-Eastern coloratura run.
Tenor voice classification
Within choral and pop music, singers are classified into voice parts based almost solely on range with little consideration for other qualities in the voice. Within classical solo singing, however, a person is classified as a tenor through the identification of several vocal traits, including vocal range (the lowest and highest notes that the singer can reach), vocal timbre, vocal weight, vocal tessitura, vocal resonance, and vocal transition points (lifts or "passaggio") within the singer's voice. These different traits are used to identify different sub-types within the tenor voice sometimes referred to as fächer (sg. fach, from German Fach or Stimmfach, "vocal category"). Within opera, particular roles are written with specific kinds of tenor voices in mind, causing certain roles to be associated with certain kinds of voices.Here follows the operatic tenor fächer, with examples of the roles from the standard repertory that they commonly sing. It should be noted that there is considerable overlap between the various categories of role and of voice-type; and that some singers have begun with lyric voices but have transformed with time into spinto or even dramatic tenors. (Enrico Caruso is a prime example of this kind of vocal development.) It must be said that in the operatic canon the highest top note generally written by composers is B. Top Cs are rare (they are either given as oppure that is, up to the singer to interpolate or are traditional additions). An ability to sing C and above, therefore, is musically superfluous. Indeed, many famous tenors never even attempted C at least on record—for example, in Caruso's 1906 recording of Che Gelida Manina, the whole aria is transposed to avoid the oppure top C. This is a normal transposition.
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:
Tenor Buffo or Spieltenor Roles in Opera & Operettas: :* 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) :* John Styx, Orphée aux enfers (Jacques Offenbach) :* Prince Paul, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Jacques Offenbach) :* 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 :*Gerhard Stolze
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)
References
Specific references: General references:Category:Pitch (music) Category:Voice types Category:Opera terminology
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Tenor Saw
| Name | Tenor Saw |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Clive Bright |
| Born | February 11, 1966, Kingston, Jamaica |
| Died | August 1988, Houston, Texas, United States |
| Genre | Reggae, dancehall |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter, singjay |
| Years active | 1980s |
Tenor Saw (born Clive Bright, Kingston, Jamaica, February 11, 1966, died August 1988, Houston, Texas, United States) was a prominent dancehall singer in the 1980s, and one of the most influential singers of the early digital reggae era. His best-known song was the 1985 hit "Ring the Alarm" on the "Stalag 17" riddim.
Biography
Bright was raised in the Payne Avenue district of West Kingston. His first single, "Roll Call" was recorded in 1984 for George Phang's Powerhouse label, on the "Queen Majesty" rhythm. He moved on, with his friend Nitty Gritty, to work with Sugar Minott's Youth Promotion sound system and label, having hits in Jamaica with "Lots of Sign", "Pumpkin Belly", "Run Come Call Me", and "Fever". He died at 22 years of age. Tenor Saw is regarded as one of the most influential singers of the early digital reggae era of the mid-1980s.311 samples Tenor Saw's "Ring the Alarm" in their song "Prisoner" from their Transistor album.
The guitar riff at the beginning of Sublime's song "Greatest Hits" is the same as the one at the end of Tenor Saw's song "Golden Hen" which is in itself a version of the Junjo Lawes' riddim Diseases.
The rap group Fu Schnickens also did a version of "Ring The Alarm"
The song "Fell, Destroyed" by Fugazi includes the line "Ring the alarm or you're sold to dying" and the lyric sheet included with the album pays "respects to Tenor Saw."
Beyonce Knowles based a performance around Tenor Saw's "Ring The Alarm". The performance was part of The Beyonce Experience. Performed in 2007 LA the song had millions of views on youtube and was seen as a highly influential artist in today's media being influenced a genre which is different to her own
German rap group Dynamite Deluxe produced a track called 'Lots of Sign', with guest-appearance Patrice singing the hookline taken of the same titled Tenor Saw song.
HipHop-Crew Lifesavas from Portland use the melody and lyrics of "Fever" for their same titled song. Song is on the "Spirit in stone"-LP, released 2003.
Independent rap artist, Brother Ali samples Tenor Saw's "Ring the Alarm" in his song "Champion" from his album "Shadows on the Sun".
Albums
References
External links
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Vitas
| Name | Vitas |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Vitaliy "Vitas" Vladasovich Grachyov |
| Born | February 19, 1981 |
| Origin | Daugavpils, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Singer, Composer, Songwriter, Actor, Fashion designer |
| Genre | Operatic pop, Vocal music, Classical |
| Voice type | Tenor, Countertenor |
| Instrument | Voice, Accordion, Piano |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Associated acts | DIVA (ДИВА) |
| Url | vitas.com.ru |
His 2000 song, "Opera No. 2" ("Opera #2"; released as a single in 2001) He designs his own stage costumes. DIVA (ДИВА) is the name of the band that accompanies Vitas during his concerts.
Vitas has achieved much notablity through Russian television, and since 2005 his career has advanced into Asian markets. "He has signed with entertainment labels such as Universal which distributes his music in Taiwan, and he has toured extensively in China
Biography
Early life
Born Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachyov on 19 February 1981, in Baltic country, Vitas was raised in Odessa, Ukraine, russian and jewish descent. He showed an interest in music from an early age. The young Vitaliy's grandfather taught him to play accordion, and he began writing songs as a child. He later studied music more formally. He attended an art school in Odessa and as a teenager appeared in various theatrical productions. He was "discovered" by visiting producer/manager Sergey Pudovkin, who asked Vitas if he would come to Moscow. This invitation was extended on the basis of Vitas' acting skills: Pudovkin had not yet heard him sing. Vitas travelled to Moscow with demos of his music and began working with Pudovkin.
Notability and early career
Vitas became notable in Russia in December 2000 with hit Opera No. 2, which was notable for use of Vitas' surprisingly high-pitched and energetic use of falsetto.His concert program Philosophy of Miracle premiered at the State Kremlin Palace on 29 March 2002, establishing a record for Vitas as the youngest artist ever to perform a solo concert at this prestigious venue. A DVD of this concert was released. He also presented his fashion collection "Autumn Dreams" on the stage of the State Kremlin Palace in 29 September 2002.
Vitas received an invitation from Lucio Dalla, the composer, who created "Caruso", to perform this song together with the author at the concert "San Remo in Moscow" held in the State Kremlin Palace in 2003. Vitas' voice enchanted not only the audience but Mr. Dalla himself, so the composer invited Vitas to come to Rome to take part in the rehearsals of "Toska", the modern version of the legendary opera.
Vitas presented his second solo program "The Songs of My Mother" in the Russia Concert Hall, Moscow in November 2003. Two albums: "The Songs of My Mother" and "Mama" of the artist were released for the premiere. The album "The Songs of My Mother" included the songs which are considered to be the gold reserves of Russian pop-music. Another album "Mama" included several new songs composed by Vitas. The two albums were a dedication to his mother who died in 2001. In 2003, he gave 264 solo concerts in places including Russia, Australia, Canada, Israel, Germany, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Belarus.
Vitas starred in a murder mystery television series called "Beloved Scoundrel" in English,
In June 2006, Vitas was invited by CCTV to take part in the grand event "The Year of Russia in China" in Beijing. Vitas performed two songs, "Star" and "Opera No. 2," in that program.
Vitas' premiere "Return Home" took place in March 2007 on the stage of Kosmos in St. Petersburg. More than twenty new Vitas' compositions were included in the premiere. Many new songs have become favorites for fans via the Internet such as "Crane's Crying", "Shores of Russia", "I Ask All Saints", "The Little Prince", "I Repeat Your Name" and others.
In 2008, he also released his single Light of A New Day, a 40-minute track of non-lyrical vocalization and instrumentation. The song is available as a free download on his website.
"Sleepless Night" tour includes concerts in China; Vitas wears more elaborate costumes in this concert than his "Return Home" programme. Vitas performed his "Return Home" concert in Bucharest, Romania on 25 February 2009. This concert was broadcast on Romanian television networks TVR2 and TVRi, achieving their highest ratings in twelve months Also, a benefit concert, with Vitas performing "The Star" was held on 12 May 2009 in Sichuan province in memory of the victims of the earthquake that occurred the previous year; a song known as "Mommy and Son" was released in late October 2009 in remembrance of earthquake victims. This will be the title track of the upcoming album "Mommy and Son, Conversation About Life." He is also planning a North American Tour in early 2011.
Vitas is one of the stars in the Chinese film Mulan about the life of legendary and mythical heroine Hua Mulan, which premiered in Beijing on November 16, 2009. He has recorded music for the film's soundtrack.
Awards and achievements
Discography
Albums
1. Listed on official site as The Song Of My Mother: same tracklisting as The Songs of My Mother DVD, repackaged for the Chinese market
Singles/EPs
Videos
1 Sung in Chinese; fanmade music video including Chinese movies and scenes from Crane's Crying music video.2 Sung in Italian.
See also
References
External links
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Sonny Rollins
| Name | Sonny Rollins |
|---|---|
| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Birth name | Theodore Walter Rollins |
| Alias | Newk, Colossus, Uncle Don |
| Born | September 07, 1930 |
| Origin | New York, New York, United States |
| Instrument | Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Occupation | Saxophonist |
| Label | Prestige, Blue Note, Contemporary, RCA Victor, Impulse!, Milestone |
| Associated acts | Jackie McLean, Max Roach, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk |
Rollins started as a pianist, changed to alto saxophone, and finally switched to tenor in 1946. During his high-school years, he played in a band with other future jazz legends Jackie McLean and Kenny Drew. He was first recorded in 1949 with Babs Gonzales – in the same year he recorded with J. J. Johnson and Bud Powell. In his recordings through 1954, he played with performers such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk.
In 1950, Rollins was arrested for armed robbery and given a sentence of three years. He spent 10 months in Rikers Island jail before he was released on parole. In 1952 he was arrested for violating the terms of his parole by using heroin. Rollins was assigned to the Federal Medical Center, Lexington, at the time the only assistance in the U.S. for drug addicts. While there he was a volunteer for then-experimental methadone therapy and was able to break his heroin habit. Rollins himself initially feared sobriety would impair his musicianship, but then went on to greater success.
As a saxophonist he had initially been attracted to the jump and R&B; sounds of performers like Louis Jordan, but soon became drawn into the mainstream tenor saxophone tradition. Joachim Berendt has described this tradition as sitting between the two poles of the strong sonority of Coleman Hawkins and the light flexible phrasing of Lester Young, which did so much to inspire the fleet improvisation of be-bop in the 1950s. Rollins drew the two threads together as a fluid post-bop improviser with a sound as strong and resonant as any since Hawkins himself.
The title track is a 19-minute improvised bluesy suite, much of it interaction between Rollins' saxophone and the drums of Max Roach, some of it very tense. However the album was not all politics – the other side featured hard bop workouts of popular show tunes. The bassist was Oscar Pettiford. The LP was only briefly available in its original form, before the record company repackaged it as Shadow Waltz, the title of another piece on the record.
Finally in 1958 Rollins made one more studio album before taking a three-year break from recording. This was another session for Los Angeles based Contemporary Records and saw Rollins recording an esoteric mixture of tunes including "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody" with a West Coast group made up of pianist Hampton Hawes, guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Shelly Manne.
1959 to 1971
By 1959, Rollins was frustrated with what he perceived as his own musical limitations and took the first – and most famous – of his musical sabbaticals. To spare a neighboring expectant mother the sound of his practice routine, Rollins ventured to the Williamsburg Bridge to practice. Upon his return to the jazz scene in 1962 he named his "comeback" album The Bridge at the start of a contract with RCA Records, recorded with a quartet featuring guitarist Jim Hall and still no piano. The rhythm section was Ben Riley on drums and bassist Bob Cranshaw. This became one of Rollins' best-selling records.The contract with RCA lasted until 1964 and saw Rollins remain one of the most adventurous musicians around. Each album he recorded differed radically from the previous one. Rollins explored Latin rhythms on What's New, tackled the avant-garde on Our Man in Jazz, and re-examined standards on Now's the Time.
He then provided the soundtrack to the 1966 version of Alfie. His 1965 residency at Ronnie Scott's legendary jazz club has recently emerged on CD as Live in London, a series of releases from the Harkit label; they offer a very different picture of his playing from the studio albums of the period. (These are unauthorized releases, and Rollins has responded by "bootlegging" them himself and releasing them on his website.)
1972 to 2000
Rollins took his most recent sabbatical to study yoga, meditation, and Eastern philosophies. When he returned in 1972, it was clear that he had become enamored of R&B;, pop, and funk rhythms. His bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s featured electric guitar, electric bass, and usually more pop- or funk-oriented drummers. For most of this period he recorded for Milestone Records and the compilation Silver City: A Celebration of 25 Years on Milestone contains a selection from these years. The 70s and 80s were not all disco though and it was during this period that Rollins' passion for unaccompanied saxophone solos came to the forefront. In 1985 he released The Solo Album.In 1981, Rollins was asked to play uncredited on three tracks by The Rolling Stones for their album Tattoo You, including the single, "Waiting on a Friend".
In 1986 Documentary filmmaker Robert Mugge released a film titled Saxophone Colossus. It featured two Rollins performances: a quintet in upstate New York and his Concerto for Saxophone and Symphony in Japan.
2001 to present
Critics such as Gary Giddins and Stanley Crouch have noted the disparity between Sonny Rollins the recording artist, and Sonny Rollins the concert artist. In a May 2005 New Yorker profile, Crouch wrote of Rollins the concert artist:
Rollins won a 2001 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for This Is What I Do (2000). On September 11, 2001, the 71-year-old Rollins, who lived several blocks away, heard the World Trade Center collapse, and was forced to evacuate his apartment, with only his saxophone in hand. Although he was shaken, he traveled to Boston five days later to play a concert at the Berklee School of Music. The live recording of that performance was released on CD in 2005, , which won the 2006 Grammy for Jazz Instrumental Solo for Sonny's performance of "Why Was I Born?".
September 25 2009, Rollins performed to a packed crowd at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. The personnel was similar to the Carnegie Hall performance; Clifton Anderson (trombone), Bobby Broom (guitar), Bob Cranshaw (bass), Kobie Watkins, drums, Sammy Figueroa (percussion).Kimmelcenter.org
On June 27, 2010, Rollins played at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in Montreal's Place-des-Arts for the 31st annual Montreal Jazz Festival, accompanied by, among others, Bob Cranshaw and Russell Malone. Prior to this show, he received the Miles Davis Award.
Tributes and legacy
Rollins is recognized by many for the length and quality of his career, one not easily matched in the world of jazz or other genres. His melodic sensibilities, playing style and solos have also influenced several generations of musicians.The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota officially named October 31, 2006, after Rollins in honor of his achievements and contributions to the world of jazz.
In 2007 he received the prestigious Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, Sweden, together with Steve Reich, while Colby College awarded Rollins a Doctor of Music, honoris causa, for his contributions to jazz music.
Rollins was elected to the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in 1973.
Donald Fagen can be seen playing Rollins' 1958 LP Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders on the cover of his 1982 LP The Nightfly, while Joe Jackson replicated the cover photo for his 1984 A&M; album Body and Soul as homage to the 1957 Blue Note album Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2.
Discography
References
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Luciano Pavarotti
| Name | Luciano Pavarotti |
|---|---|
| Caption | Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in Strelna, 31 May 2003. The concert was part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. |
| Birth date | October 12, 1935 |
| Birth place | Modena, Italy |
| Death date | September 06, 2007 |
| Death place | Modena, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Occupation | Opera singer (tenor) |
| Years active | 1961–2006 |
| Signature | Luciano Pavarotti Signature.svg |
| Website | www.lucianopavarotti.com |
Pavarotti began his professional career as a tenor in 1961 in Italy. In 1961, he made his first international appearance in La traviata in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He sang in opera houses in addition to Italy, in the Netherlands, Vienna, London, Ankara, Budapest and Barcelona. The young tenor earned valuable experience and recognition while touring Australia at the invitation of soprano Joan Sutherland in 1965. He made his United States debut in Miami soon afterwards, also on Sutherland's recommendation. His position as a leading lyric tenor was consolidated in the years between 1966 and 1972, during which time he first appeared at Milan's La Scala and other major European houses. In 1968, he debuted at New York City's Metropolitan Opera as Rudolfo in Puccini's La bohème. At the Met in 1972, in the role of Tonio in Donizetti's La fille du régiment he earned the title "King of the high Cs" when he sang the aria "Ah mes amis ... pour mon âme". He gained worldwide fame for the brilliance and beauty of his tone, especially into the upper register. He was at his best in bel canto operas, pre-Aida Verdi roles and Puccini works such as La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. The late 1970s and 1980s saw Pavarotti continue to make significant appearances in the world's foremost opera houses.
Celebrity beyond the world of opera came to Pavarotti at the 1990 World Cup in Italy with performances of Puccini's "Nessun dorma", from Turandot, and as one of "The Three Tenors" in their famed first concert held on the eve of the tournament's final match. He sang on that occasion with fellow star tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras, bringing opera highlights to a wider audience. Appearances in advertisements and with pop icons in concerts furthered his international celebrity.
His final performance in an opera was at the Metropolitan Opera in March 2004. Later that year, the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) inducted him into its Italian American Hall of Fame in recognition of his lifetime of work. During a ceremony held at the Foundation's Anniversary Gala just four days after his 69th birthday, singer Faith Hill presented Pavarotti with a birthday cake and sang "Happy Birthday" to the opera legend.
The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, saw Pavarotti on stage for the last time, where he performed "Nessun dorma", with the crowd serving as the aria's chorus, and he received a thunderous standing ovation.
On 6 September 2007, he died at home in Modena from pancreatic cancer, aged 71.
Earlier life and musical training
Luciano Pavarotti was born in 1935 on the outskirts of Modena in Northern Italy, the son of Fernando Pavarotti, a baker and amateur tenor, and Adele Venturi, a cigar factory worker. Although he spoke fondly of his childhood, the family had little money; its four members were crowded into a two-room apartment. According to Pavarotti, his father had a fine tenor voice but rejected the possibility of a singing career because of nervousness. World War II forced the family out of the city in 1943. For the following year they rented a single room from a farmer in the neighbouring countryside, where the young Pavarotti developed an interest in farming.After abandoning the dream of becoming a football goalkeeper, Pavarotti spent seven years in vocal training. Pavarotti's earliest musical influences were his father's recordings, most of them featuring the popular tenors of the day - Beniamino Gigli, Giovanni Martinelli, Tito Schipa and Enrico Caruso. Pavarotti's favourite tenor and idol was Giuseppe Di Stefano. He was also deeply influenced by Mario Lanza, saying, "In my teens I used to go to Mario Lanza movies and then come home and imitate him in the mirror". At around the age of nine he began singing with his father in a small local church choir.
After what appears to have been a normal childhood with a typical interest in sports — in Pavarotti's case football above all, he graduated from the Scuola Magistrale and faced the dilemma of a career choice. He was interested in pursuing a career as a professional football goalkeeper, but his mother convinced him to train as a teacher. He subsequently taught in an elementary school for two years but finally allowed his interest in music to win out. Recognising the risk involved, his father gave his consent only reluctantly.
Pavarotti began the serious study of music in 1954 at the age of 19 with Arrigo Pola, a respected teacher and professional tenor in Modena who offered to teach him without remuneration. Not until he began these studies was Pavarotti aware that he had perfect pitch.
In 1955, he experienced his first singing success when he was a member of the Corale Rossini, a male voice choir from Modena that also included his father, which won first prize at the International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, Wales. He later said that this was the most important experience of his life, and that it inspired him to become a professional singer. At about this time Pavarotti first met Adua Veroni. They married in 1961.
When his teacher Arrigo Pola moved to Japan, Pavarotti became a student of Ettore Campogalliani, who at that time was also teaching Pavarotti's childhood friend, Mirella Freni, whose mother worked with Luciano's mother in the cigar factory. Like Pavarotti, Freni was destined to operatic greatness; they were to share the stage many times and make memorable recordings together.
During his years of musical study, Pavarotti held part time jobs in order to sustain himself - first as an elementary school teacher and then as an insurance salesman. The first six years of study resulted in only a few recitals, all in small towns and without pay. When a nodule developed on his vocal cords, causing a "disastrous" concert in Ferrara, he decided to give up singing. Pavarotti attributed his immediate improvement to the psychological release connected with this decision. Whatever the reason, the nodule not only disappeared but, as he related in his autobiography, "Everything I had learned came together with my natural voice to make the sound I had been struggling so hard to achieve".
Career
1960s–1970s
Pavarotti began his career as a tenor in smaller regional Italian opera houses, making his debut as Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Teatro Municipale in Reggio Emilia in April 1961.Very early in his career, on 23 February 1963, he debuted at the Vienna State Opera with the same role. In March and April 1963 Vienna saw Pavarotti again as Rodolfo and as Duca di Mantova in Rigoletto. The same year saw his Royal Opera House debut, where he replaced an indisposed Giuseppe di Stefano as Rodolfo.
While generally successful, Pavarotti's early roles did not immediately propel him into the stardom that he would later enjoy. An early coup involved his connection with Joan Sutherland (and her conductor husband, Richard Bonynge), who in 1963 had sought a young tenor taller than herself to take along on her tour to Australia. At well over 6 feet tall and with his commanding physical presence, Pavarotti proved ideal. The two sang some forty performances over two months, and Pavarotti later credited Sutherland for the breathing technique that would sustain him over his career.
Pavarotti made his American début with the Greater Miami Opera in February 1965, singing in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor opposite Joan Sutherland on the stage of the Miami-Dade County Auditorium in Miami. The tenor scheduled to perform that night became ill with no understudy. As Sutherland was traveling with him on tour, she recommended the young Pavarotti as he was well acquainted with the role.
Shortly after, on 28 April, Pavarotti made his La Scala debut in the revival of the famous Franco Zeffirelli production of La Bohème, with his childhood friend Mirella Freni singing Mimi and Herbert von Karajan conducting. Karajan had requested the singer's engagement. After an extended Australian tour, he returned to La Scala, where he added Tebaldo from I Capuleti e i Montecchi to his repertoire on 26 March 1966, with Giacomo Aragall as Romeo. His first appearance as Tonio in Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment took place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 2 June of that year. It was his performances of this role that would earn him the title of "King of the High Cs".
He scored another major triumph in Rome on 20 November 1969 when he sang in I Lombardi opposite Renata Scotto. This was recorded on a private label and widely distributed, as were various recordings of his I Capuleti e i Montecchi, usually with Aragall. Early commercial recordings included a recital of Donizetti (the aria from Don Sebastiano was particularly highly regarded) and Verdi arias, as well as a complete L'Elisir d'Amore with Sutherland.
His major breakthrough in the United States came on 17 February 1972, in a production of La Fille du Régiment at New York's Metropolitan Opera, in which he drove the crowd into a frenzy with his nine effortless high Cs in the signature aria. He achieved a record seventeen curtain calls.
Pavarotti sang his international recital début at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, on 1 February 1973, as part of the college's Fine Arts Program, now known as the Harriman-Jewell Series. Perspiring due to nerves and a lingering cold, the tenor clutched a handkerchief throughout the début. The prop became a signature part of his solo performances.
He began to give frequent television performances, starting with his performances as Rodolfo (La Bohème) in the first Live from the Met telecast in March 1977, which attracted one of the largest audiences ever for a televised opera. He won many Grammy awards and platinum and gold discs for his performances. In addition to the previously listed titles, his La Favorita with Fiorenza Cossotto and his I Puritani (1975) with Sutherland stand out.
In 1976, Pavarotti debuted at the Salzburg Festival, appearing in a solo recital on 31 July, accompanied by pianist Leone Magiera. Pavarotti returned to the festival in 1978 with a recital and as the Italian singer in Der Rosenkavalier, in 1983 with Idomeneo, and both in 1985 and 1988 with solo recitals.
In 1979, he was profiled in a cover story in the weekly magazine Time. That same year saw Pavarotti's return to the Vienna State Opera after an absence of fourteen years. With Herbert von Karajan conducting, Pavarotti sang Manrico in Il Trovatore. In 1978, he appeared in a solo recital on Live from Lincoln Center.
1980s–1990s
At the beginning of the 1980s, he set up The Pavarotti International Voice Competition for young singers, performing with the winners in 1982 in excerpts of La Bohème and L'Elisir d'Amore. The second competition, in 1986, staged excerpts of La Bohème and Un Ballo in Maschera. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of his career, he brought the winners of the competition to Italy for gala performances of La Bohème in Modena and Genoa, and then to China where they staged performances of La Bohème in Beijing (Peking). To conclude the visit, Pavarotti performed the first ever concert in the Great Hall of the People before 10,000 people, receiving a standing ovation for nine effortless high Cs. The third competition in 1989 again staged performances of L'Elisir d'Amore and Un ballo in Maschera. The winners of the fifth competition accompanied Pavarotti in performances in Philadelphia in 1997.In the mid-1980s, Pavarotti returned to two opera houses that had provided him with important breakthroughs, the Vienna State Opera and La Scala. Vienna saw Pavarotti as Rodolfo in La Bohème with Carlos Kleiber conducting and again Mirella Freni was Mimi; as Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore; as Radames in Aïda conducted by Lorin Maazel; as Rodolfo in Luisa Miller; and as Gustavo in Un Ballo in Maschera conducted by Claudio Abbado. In 1996, Pavarotti appeared for the last time at the Staatsoper in Andrea Chenier.
In 1985, Pavarotti sang Radames at La Scala opposite Maria Chiara in a Luca Ronconi production conducted by Maazel, recorded on video. His performance of the aria "Celeste Aïda" received a two-minute ovation on the opening night. He was reunited with Mirella Freni for the San Francisco Opera production of La Bohème in 1988, also recorded on video. In 1992, La Scala saw Pavarotti in a new Zeffirelli production of Don Carlo, conducted by Riccardo Muti. Pavarotti's performance was heavily criticized by some observers and booed by parts of the audience.
Pavarotti became even better known throughout the world in 1990 when his rendition of Giacomo Puccini's aria, "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot was taken as the theme song of BBC's TV coverage of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. The aria achieved pop status and remained his trademark song. This was followed by the hugely successful Three Tenors concert, held on the eve of the World Cup final at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome with fellow tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras and conductor Zubin Mehta, which became the biggest selling classical record of all time. A highlight of the concert, in which Pavarotti hammed up a famous portion of di Capua's "O Sole Mio" and was mimicked by Domingo and Carreras to the delight of the audience, became one of the most memorable moments in contemporary operatic history. Throughout the 1990s, Pavarotti appeared in many well-attended outdoor concerts, including his televised concert in London's Hyde Park, which drew a record attendance of 150,000. In June 1993, more than 500,000 listeners gathered for his free performance on the Great Lawn of New York's Central Park, while millions more around the world watched on television. The following September, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, he sang for an estimated crowd of 300,000. Following on from the original 1990 concert, the Three Tenors concerts were held during the Football World Cups: in Los Angeles in 1994, in Paris in 1998, and in Yokohama in 2002.
In 1995, Pavarotti's friends, the singer Lara Saint Paul (as Lara Cariaggi) and her husband showman Pier Quinto Cariaggi, who had produced and organised Pavarotti's 1990 FIFA World Cup Celebration Concert at the PalaTrussardi in Milan, produced and wrote the television documentary The Best is Yet to Come, an extensive biography about the life of Pavarotti. Lara Saint Paul was the interviewer for the documentary with Pavarotti, who spoke candidly about his life and career.
Pavarotti's rise to stardom was not without occasional difficulties, however. He earned a reputation as "The King of Cancellations" by frequently backing out of performances, and his unreliable nature led to poor relationships with some opera houses. This was brought into focus in 1989 when Ardis Krainik of the Lyric Opera of Chicago severed the house's 15-year relationship with the tenor. Over an eight-year period, Pavarotti had cancelled 26 out of 41 scheduled appearances at the Lyric, and the decisive move by Krainik to ban him for life was well-noted throughout the opera world, after the performer walked away from a season premiere less than two weeks before rehearsals began, saying pain from a sciatic nerve required two months of treatment.
On 12 December 1998, he became the first (and, to date, only) opera singer to perform on Saturday Night Live, singing alongside Vanessa L. Williams. He also sang with U2, in the band's 1995 song "Miss Sarajevo", and with Mercedes Sosa in a big concert at the Boca Juniors arena La Bombonera in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1999.
In 1998, Pavarotti was presented with the Grammy Legend Award. Given only on special occasions, as of 2007 it has only been awarded 15 times since its first presentation in 1990.
2000s
in Marseille]] In 2004, one of Pavarotti's former managers, Herbert Breslin, published a book, The King & I. and another for the best-selling classical album (In Concert by The Three Tenors). (The latter record is thus shared by fellow tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras.)In late 2003, he released his final compilation - and his first and only "crossover" album, Ti Adoro. Most of the 13 songs were written and produced by the Michele Centonze who had already helped produce the "Pavarotti and Friends" concerts between 1998 and 2000. The tenor described the album as a wedding gift to Nicoletta Mantovani.
Pavarotti began his farewell tour in 2004, at the age of 69, performing one last time in old and new locations, after more than four decades on the stage. Pavarotti gave his last performance in an opera at the New York Metropolitan Opera on 13 March 2004, for which he received a long standing ovation for his role as the painter Mario Cavaradossi in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. On 1 December 2004, he announced a 40-city farewell tour. Pavarotti and his manager, Terri Robson, commissioned impresario Harvey Goldsmith to produce the Worldwide Farewell Tour. His last full-scale performance was at the end of a two-month Australasian tour in Taiwan, in December 2005.
In March 2005, Pavarotti underwent neck surgery to repair two vertebrae. In early 2006, he underwent further back surgery and contracted an infection while in the hospital in New York, forcing cancellation of concerts in the U.S., Canada and the UK.
On 10 February 2006, Pavarotti sang "Nessun Dorma" at the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy at his final performance. In the last act of the opening ceremony, his performance received the longest and loudest ovation of the night from the international crowd. Leone Magiera, who directed the performance, revealed in his 2008 memoirs, Pavarotti Visto da Vicino, that the performance was prerecorded weeks earlier. "The orchestra pretended to play for the audience, I pretended to conduct and Luciano pretended to sing. The effect was wonderful," he wrote. Pavarotti's manager, Terri Robson, said that the tenor had turned the Winter Olympic Committee's invitation down several times because it would have been impossible to sing late at night in the sub-zero conditions of Turin in February. The committee eventually persuaded him to take part by pre-recording the song.
Other work
Film and television
Pavarotti's one venture into film, a romantic comedy called Yes, Giorgio (1982), was roundly panned by the critics. He can be seen to better advantage in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's adaptation of Rigoletto for television, released that same year, or in his more than 20 live opera performances taped for television between 1978 and 1994, most of them with the Metropolitan Opera, and most available on DVD.
Humanitarianism
Pavarotti annually hosted the "Pavarotti and Friends" charity concerts in his home town of Modena in Italy, joining with singers from all parts of the music industry, including Bryan Adams, Bono, Mariah Carey, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Céline Dion, Elton John, Deep Purple, Queen, Sting, the Spice Girls, and Jon Bon Jovi, to raise money for several UN causes. Concerts were held for War Child, and victims of war and civil unrest in Bosnia, Guatemala, Kosovo and Iraq. After the war in Bosnia, he financed and established the Pavarotti Music Centre in the southern city of Mostar to offer Bosnia's artists the opportunity to develop their skills. For these contributions, the city of Sarajevo named him an honorary citizen in 2006.He performed at benefit concerts to raise money for victims of tragedies such as the Spitak earthquake that killed 25,000 people in northern Armenia in December 1988, and sang Gounod's Ave Maria with legendary French pop music star and ethnic Armenian Charles Aznavour.
He was a close friend of Diana, Princess of Wales. They raised money for the elimination of land mines worldwide. He was invited to sing at her funeral service, but declined to sing, as he felt he could not sing well "with his grief in his throat". Nonetheless, he attended the service.
In 1998, he was appointed the United Nations Messenger of Peace, using his fame to raise awareness of UN issues, including the Millennium Development Goals, HIV/AIDS, child rights, urban slums and poverty.
In 1999, Pavarotti performed a charity benefit concert in Beirut, to mark Lebanon's reemergence on the world stage after a brutal 15 year civil war. The largest concert held in Beirut since the end of the war, it was attended by 20,000 people who travelled from countries as distant as Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria.
In 2001, Pavarotti received the Nansen Medal from the UN High Commission for Refugees for his efforts raising money on behalf of refugees worldwide. Through benefit concerts and volunteer work, he has raised more than any other individual.
Other honours he received include the "Freedom of London Award" and The Red Cross "Award for Services to Humanity", for his work in raising money for that organization, and the 1998 "MusiCares Person of the Year", given to humanitarian heroes by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.
Death
While undertaking an international "farewell tour", Pavarotti was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in July 2006. The tenor fought back against the implications of this diagnosis, undergoing major abdominal surgery and making plans for the resumption and conclusion of his singing commitments. On Thursday 6 September 2007, he died at home in Modena, aged 71. Within hours of his death his manager, Terri Robson, noted in an e-mail statement, "The Maestro fought a long, tough battle against the pancreatic cancer which eventually took his life. In fitting with the approach that characterized his life and work, he remained positive until finally succumbing to the last stages of his illness".According to several reports, just before he died, the singer had received both the sacraments of Penance and Anointing of the Sick from the Roman Catholic Church.
Pavarotti's funeral was held in Modena Cathedral. Romano Prodi and Kofi Annan attended. The Frecce Tricolori, the aerobatic demonstration team of the Italian Air Force, flew overhead, leaving green-white-red smoke trails. After a funeral procession through the centre of Modena, Pavarotti's coffin was taken the final ten kilometres to Montale Rangone, a village part of Castelnuovo Rangone, and interred in his parents' grave. The funeral, in its entirety, was also telecast live on CNN. The Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival Hall flew black flags in mourning. Tributes were published by many opera houses, such as London's Royal Opera House. The Italian football giant Juventus F.C., of which Pavarotti was a lifelong fan, was represented at the funeral and posted a farewell message on its website which said: "Ciao Luciano, black-and-white heart" referring to the team's famous stripes when they play on their home ground.
Tributes
On 12 October 2007, on what would have been Pavarotti's 72nd birthday, Google exhibited a logo using a cartoon of Pavarotti as the letter "L" in its name.A tribute concert featuring many performers trained by Pavarotti himself was held on February 14, 2008 at New York City's Avery Fisher Hall.
Personal life
On 13 December 2003 he married his former personal assistant, Nicoletta Mantovani, with whom he already had a daughter, Alice. A second child, Riccardo, did not survive, because of complications at the time of birth in January 2003. Pavarotti is also survived by three other daughters by his first wife Adua, to whom he was married for 34 years: Lorenza, Cristina and Giuliana. At the time of his death, he had one granddaughter.
Settlement of estate
His first will was opened the day after his death and a second will, within the same month of September. He left an estate outside his native Modena, a villa in Pesaro, a flat in Monte Carlo and three flats in New York City.Pavarotti's widow's lawyers Giorgio Bernini, Anna Maria Bernini and manager Terri Robson announced on 30 June 2008 that his family amicably settled his estate – 300 million euros ($ 474.2 million, including $15 million in U.S. assets). Pavarotti drafted two wills before his death: one divided his assets by Italian law, giving half to his second wife, Nicoletta Mantovani, and half to his four daughters; the second gave his U.S. holdings to Mantovani. The judge confirmed the compromise by the end of July 2008. However, a Pesaro public prosecutor, Massimo di Patria, investigated allegations that Pavarotti was not of sound mind when he signed the will. Pavarotti's estate has been settled "fairly", a lawyer for Pavarotti's widow, Nicoletta Mantovani, said in statements after reports of a dispute between Ms. Mantovani and his three daughters from his first marriage.
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Pavarotti himself summarised his life as follows:"Penso che una vita per la musica sia una vita spesa bene ed è a questo che mi sono dedicato."
English translation: "I think a life for music is a well-spent one, and that's what I have dedicated mine to."
See also
Notes and references
External links
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Jimi Tenor
Jimi Tenor (born Lahti, 1965 as Lassi Lehto) is a Finnish musician. His name is a combination of the first name of his youth idol Jimmy Osmond and the tenor saxophone. His band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans published its first album in 1988, Jimi's first solo album appeared in 1994. "Take Me Baby" became his first hit in 1994. He has released albums on Sähkö Recordings, Warp Records and Kitty-Yo labels.
Jimi has performed several times with the Avante Guarde big band Flat Earth Society.
Total Capacity of 216,5 Litres, 1988
Diktafon, 1989
Mekanoid, 1990
Fear of a Black Jesus, 1992
Europa, 1995
Sähkömies, 1994
Intervision, 1997
Venera EP, 1998
Organism, 1999 (Warp/Sire Records)
Out Of Nowhere, 2000
Cosmic Relief EP, 2001
Utopian Dream, 2001
Higher Planes, 2003
Beyond The Stars, 2004
Deutsche Grammophon ReComposed by Jimi Tenor, 2006
Live in berlin, 2007
Sunrise, 2006
Joystone, 2007
4th Dimension, 2009
Inspiration Information 4, 2009
Official Site
Jimi Tenor & His Shamans Fanpage
Review of album "Joystone"
In 2009 he contributed a cover of an Elektroids song to Warp20 (Recreated) compilation, as well as having his song "Paint the Stars" covered by Hudson Mohawke.
Discography
Jimi Tenor and his Shamans
Solo
With Kabu Kabu
With Tony Allen
External links
Category:1965 births Category:Living people Category:Finnish musicians Category:People from Lahti Category:Ubiquity Records artists
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Emily Remler
| Name | Emily Remler |
|---|---|
| Landscape | no |
| Background | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Born | September 18, 1957New York, New YorkUnited States |
| Died | May 04, 1990SydneyAustralia |
| Instrument | Guitar |
| Genre | Jazz fusion |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Years active | 1980–1990 |
| Notable instruments | Borys B120 Gibson ES-330 |
Emily Remler (September 18, 1957 - May 4, 1990) was an American jazz guitarist who rose to prominence in the 1980s. She recorded seven albums of hard bop, jazz standards and fusion guitar.
Career
Born in New York City, Remler began to play the guitar at the age of ten. Initially inspired by hard rock and other popular styles of music, she experienced a musical epiphany during her studies, from 1974 to 1976, at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. She began to listen to such legendary jazz greats as Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. She took up jazz with a ferocious intensity, practicing almost constantly, and never looked back. After leaving Berklee, she performed in blues and jazz clubs in New Orleans, working with bands such as FourPlay and Little Queenie and the Percolators before beginning her recording career in 1981. She was championed by guitar great Herb Ellis, who referred to her as "the new superstar of guitar".In an interview with People magazine, she once said of herself: "I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I’m a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery." ~People Mag. 1982~
Recorded for the famous Concord label, Remler's albums showcase the diverse influences of a fast developing artist who quickly developed a distinctive style through versions of standard tunes and genres. Her first album as a band leader Firefly won immediate acclaim and her bop guitar on the follow up Take Two was equally well received. Transitions and Catwalk traced the emergence of a more individual voice, with many striking original tunes, while her love of Wes Montgomery shone through on the stylish East to Wes.
When the rhythm section is floating, I'll float too, and I'll get a wonderful feeling in my stomach. If the rhythm section is really swinging, it's such a great feeling, you just want to laugh —Emily Remler
In addition to her recording career as a band leader and composer, Remler played in blues groups, on Broadway and with artists as diverse as Larry Coryell, with whom she recorded an album entitled Together, and the singer Rosemary Clooney. She played for the Los Angeles version of the show 'Sophisticated Ladies' from 1981 to 1982 and produced two popular guitar instruction videos. She also worked as guitarist for Astrud Gilberto. In 1985 she won the ‘Guitarist Of The Year’ award in DownBeat Jazz Magazine’s international poll. In 1988 she was 'Artist in Residence' at Duquesne University and in 1989 received Berklee's Distinguished Alumni award.
She married Jamaican jazz pianist Monty Alexander in 1981, the marriage ending in 1984.
Her first guitar was her elder brother's Gibson ES-330, and she played a Borys B120 hollow body electric towards the end of the 1980s. Her acoustic guitars included a 1984 Collectors Series Ovation and a nylon string Korocusci classical guitar that she used for playing bossa nova.
When asked how she wanted to be remembered she remarked:
"Good compositions, memorable guitar playing and my contributions as a woman in music…. but the music is everything, and it has nothing to do with politics or the women’s liberation movement."
Remler, who was a heroin addict, died of heart failure at the age of 32 at the Connells Point home of musician Ed Gaston, while on tour in Australia.
Two tribute albums were recorded after her death, Just Friends volume one and two, featuring contributions from Herb Ellis, David Benoit, Bill O'Connell and David Bromberg among many others. In 2006 the Skip Heller Quartet recorded a song called "Emily Remler" in her memory.
Discography
Studio Albums
Compilations
References
External links
Category:American female guitarists Category:American jazz guitarists Category:Female jazz guitarists Category:Jewish American musicians Category:Hard bop guitarists Category:Jazz fusion guitarists Category:People from New York City Category:Women in jazz Category:1957 births Category:1990 deaths Category:Berklee College of Music alumni
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Cutty Ranks
| Name | Cutty Ranks |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Philip Thomas |
| Born | February 12, 1965 |
| Origin | Kingston, Jamaica |
| Genre | Reggae, dancehall |
| Occupation | singer, songwriter, musician, entertainer |
Philip Thomas, (born 12 February 1965), better known as Cutty Ranks is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist.
Biography
Thomas was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1965. He began his career as a reggae artist at the age of 14 with the Gemini sound system, before moving on to work with Tony Rebel's Rebel Tone and Papa Roots, and later working with Stereo Mars, Arrows and Metro Media. He joined Killamanjaro where he worked alongside Early B, Super Cat, Puddy Roots, and Little Twitch, and then Sturmars where he worked with Josey Wales, Nicodemus, Super Cat, U Brown and Yami Bolo. His first job on leaving school was as a butcher.During the 80s, Ranks moved on to the Arrows sound system and his debut single "Gunman Lyrics" was recorded for Winston Riley's Techniques label. He also recorded such tracks as "Out Of Hand" and "Fishman Lyrics" with Riley and after spending some time in Miami working with Super Cat and Nicodemus, he worked with Patrick Roberts' Shocking Vibes label, releasing the single "The Bomber". In 1990 he joined Donovan Germain's Penthouse label, enjoying a hit with "Pon Mi Nozzle".
Ranks came to the attention of London-based Fashion Records and in 1991, he released "The Stopper" and a debut album of the same name for Fashion, following this up with the album Lethal Weapon in the same year for Penthouse, featuring singers such as Marcia Griffiths, Dennis Brown, Wayne Wonder and Beres Hammond. His follow up albums From Mi Heart and Six Million Ways to Die were released on Priority Records in 1996. Six Million Ways to Die included a hip hop remix of Ranks' song "A Who Seh Me Dun" which was voiced earlier over the Bam Bam riddim in 1992. In 2000, he released the album Back With A Vengeance produced by King Jammy. This album saw Ranks venture into other musical styles, including hip hop and dancehall. His song "Bomber" is considered a classic in Jamaica.
Cutty Ranks has been influential outside the world of dancehall, particularly in the field of drum 'n' bass and jungle. His vocals have been frequently sampled and his songs remixed by artists such as Goldie. The DJ SS remix of "Limb By Limb" appeared on Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted in 1996, being blasted at volume by Father Fintan Stack, a belligerent and disagreeable priest that is drafted in to replace a then-retired Father Jack.
Discography
;Collaborations, split albums:
References
External links
Category:1965 births Category:Living people Category:people from Kingston, Jamaica Category:Jamaican reggae musicians
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Burro Banton
| Name | Burro Banton |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Donovan Spalding |
| Born | 27 December 1956 |
| Origin | Kingston, Jamaica |
| Instrument | Vocalist, Songwriter |
| Genre | Reggae |
| Years active | 1976–present |
Burro Banton (born Donovan Spalding, December 27, 1956, Kingston, Jamaica) is a dancehall reggae deejay popular in the mid-1980s and 1990s.
He is most famous for his anthem "Boom Wah Dis", which was recorded on the Steely & Clevie riddim called "Street Sweeper".
Burro emerged during the mid-1980s at the beginning of the digital dancehall craze started by King Jammy that also featured artists like Cutty Ranks. He is known for his very aggressive style; deep, gruff voice; and was the inspiration for many modern dancehall artists like Buju Banton, Bounty Killer, and Elephant Man.
Biography
Banton's career began in 1976 when he entered a talent contest at the Skateland discothèque in Kingston. His early influences included Ranking Joe, Dillinger, Trinity, U Brown, and Ranking Trevor. In 1984 he toured Canada with John Wayne and began to nurture the career of his protégé, Little Burro.As the 1990s approached, Burro Banton continued working with Super Cat and Nicodemus. Super Cat formed the "Wild Apache" label, where Burro recorded his first recording of a #1 hit, "Boom Wah Dis." When Super Cat signed with Columbia/SME Records, Burro Banton joined forces with the ace producer Bobby Konders and the Massive B label in 1991. Here, Burro Banton recorded numerous #1 hits including "Washington Session", "Tek a Set", "Westmoreland Sensi", and many more.
Massive B released Burro's second LP, The Original Banton in 1995. Burro continued recording with Massive B until 1998 and during this period worked with Steely and Clevie, one of Jamaica's most respected production teams, for whom he reworked his earlier hit "Boom Wah Dis" on their "Street Sweeper" riddim, scoring another #1 hit from Kingston, Jamaica, to New York to Miami and beyond. It was in heavy rotation around the world for many months in reggae and Caribbean-music circles.
2000 and Beyond
Extending his recording career with Massive B in 2000, his releases titled "Politicians" on the "Lickshot Rewind" riddim delves into hard time in the ghetto of Kingston and wishes the politicians would keep their promises of a better life. In addition, he released "Phenomenon 2" on the Dun Dem riddim, in which he praises the role played by people involved in the ganja trade. His latest efforts on Massive B's Rock, Penicillin, and Tempo riddims features a #1 European single called "Jah Jah Rules".Burro Banton has been touring constantly over the last ten years across Asia, Europe, and throughout North America. He has shared the stage with Capleton and Bounty Killer, just to name a few and stands out in his performances due to his originality.
Burro Banton continues to record commercially successful and critically acclaimed music, including his recent hit song Badder Dan Dem, which is featured on the dedicated Massive B radio station in the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV.
References
Category:Jamaican reggae musicians Category:Living people Category:1960 births
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Ben Heppner
Ben Heppner, CC (born January 14, 1956) is a Canadian tenor, specializing in opera and other classical works for voice.
Heppner was born in Murrayville, British Columbia, and lived in Dawson Creek. He began his musical studies at the University of British Columbia and first attracted national attention when he won the CBC Talent Festival in 1979.
Since then, he has gone on to become one of the most prominent dramatic tenors active today. He is associated particularly with the Wagnerian repertoire, but he performs a wide range of operas from the German, French and Italian canons.
Heppner performs frequently with major opera companies in the United States (including the New York Metropolitan Opera) and Europe, as well as concert appearances with major symphony orchestras. He has appeared in the DVD recordings of the Met's productions of Beethoven's Fidelio, Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, two of his signature roles. (He first performed Tristan with the Seattle Opera in 1998.) He specialises in some of the most challenging of operatic roles, including, in addition to Tristan, the title part in Lohengrin, the title part in Otello, and Berlioz's Aeneas.
Heppner has recorded widely on many labels, participating in both complete operas and solo albums of arias and songs. He is currently signed to an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon (DG). His first solo recording for DG, made in 2001, was Airs Français. It won a Juno Award.
Heppner has received Honorary Doctorates from Queen's University (2006), McMaster Divinity College (2005), York University (2003), Memorial University of Newfoundland (2003), University of Toronto (2002), McGill University (2002), and University of British Columbia (1997).
In 1988, he won the Birgit Nilsson Prize. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999, was promoted to Officer in 2002 and Companion in 2008. He performed at closing ceremonies of two Winter Olympic Games. In Torino in 2006, he sang the Canadian national anthem. Four years later, in Vancouver, he sang the Olympic Hymn. Both times, he mixed English and French.
Discography
Opera
1992 Weber: Oberon (Hüon von Bordeaux). Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra - Gürzenich Orchestra, James Conlon. EMI.1993 Puccini: Turandot (Calaf). Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Roberto Abbado. RCA.
1994 Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Walther von Stolzing). Bavarian State Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch. EMI.
1995 Massenet: Hérodiade (Jean). Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson. EMI.
1995 Wagner: Lohengrin (Lohengrin). Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis. RCA.
1996 Beethoven: Fidelio (Florestan). Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis. RCA.
1997 Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Walther von Stolzing). Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti. Decca.
1997 Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Erik). Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine. Sony.
1997 Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten (the Emperor). Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli. Teldec.
1998 Dvořák: Rusalka (Prince). Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras. Decca.
2001 Berlioz: Les Troyens (Énée). London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis. LSO Live.
2001 Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (Tenor/Bacchus). Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli. Deutsche Grammophon.
Recital
1995 Ben Heppner Sings Richard Strauss. Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor). CBC.1995 Great Tenor Arias. Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Roberto Abbado. RCA.
1998 German Romantic Opera. North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles. RCA.
1998 Dedication. Craig Rutenberg. RCA.
1999 My Secret Heart. London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Tunick. RCA.
2001 Airs Français. London Symphony Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung. Deutsche Grammophon
2003 Ideale: Songs of Paolo Tosti. Members of the London Symphony Orchestra. Deutsche Grammophon.
2006 Heppner/Wagner: Excerpts from "The Ring of the Nibelung". Staatskapelle Dresden, Peter Schneider. Deutsche Grammophon.
Others
1984 Bach: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140. CBC Vancouver Orchestra, Wayne Riddell. CBC.1994 Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gary Bertini. EMI
1995 Various: Along the Road to Bethlehem. Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jean Ashworth Bartle.
1996 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado. Sony.
1997 Mahler: Symphony No. 8. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis. RCA.
2000 Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel. RCA.
2001 Mahler: Symphony No. 8. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly. Decca.
2001 Somers: Songs from the Heart of Somers. John Hess. Centrediscs.
2004 Arnold Schönberg: Gurre-Lieder. Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine. Oehms Classics.
2004 Wagner: Siegfried, 3rd Act. Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine. Oehms Classics.
External links
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