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...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...
Like sopranos, unlike basses and baritones, tenor voices go to seed early. When golden-voiced Enrico Caruso died at 48, he had passed his prime. Jean de Reszke and gut-busting Francesco Tamagno retired at 51. But not yet retired is Giovanni Martinelli, 53, robust, white-mopped tenor who made his debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera the year before the War. Never the undisputed best of the Metropolitan's chandelier-jigglers, Martinelli has been a dependable artist in an enormous repertory (57 roles). In two operas, Verdi's Otello and Halevy's La Juive, critics...
...Grand Italian Opera Company began a week's engagement at the Mechanics' Building last night, when Mme. Albani and Sig. Tamagno appeared in Verdi's opera, "Otello." The experiment of converting the huge hall of the Mechanics' Building into an auditorium is not a success; it is impossible for the members of the company to do themselves justice in this hall, and the pleasure of hearing them is on this account seriously marred. Taking this into consideration the production of "tOello" may be said to have been a success. Mme. Albani was at her best, and carried off the honors...
Mechanics Building.- Signor Tamagno and Mrnle. Albani in Othello
Mechanics Building.- Signor Tamagno and Mmle. Albani in Othello...
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