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Word: fancesco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carerras or Placido Domingo often sing not just arias, but entire acts a whole step down. Today Tenors with "tops" are special phenomena. One need only recall singers like Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, whose upper range range with a clarion brilliance that would bury any Pavarotti high C. The great Fancesco Tamagno, the original Otello and perhaps the greatest Otello of all time, would often take arias up a half step or more because of the voice's increased power even at that pitch...

Author: By Lorenzo Mariani, | Title: A Reputation (Like Everything Else About Him), Overblown | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

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