Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WORLD (RCA Victor). "Tennessee Playboy" Eddie Arnold, after 20 years of hit making, is still climbing the pop charts (Make the World Go Away; What's He Doin' in My World). His mellifluous, high tenor voice is as sweet as ever, but the Nashville Sound is beginning to take on the airs of the Melachrino Strings...
...have in mind when you complain about today's opera or concert audiences in America? They always applaud, even at the worst performances. The candy-munchers to whom you recommend bananas? In the 18th century they could buy oranges, but they might use them as weapons against the tenor. The score readers? In the 19th century, before the practice began of lowering the house lights during performances, people read the newspaper between arias. The latecomers? A hundred years ago it was normal to come late. The early leavers? During performances, people used to visit each other noisily, and ogle...
...Germany, Jess Thomas is known as a jugendlicher Heldentenor. Put lit erally, it means young heroic tenor...
...Metropolitan Opera production of A'ida. His military garb amply revealed his impressive dimensions (which he will recite like a cover girl: "Six feet three inches, 200 pounds, 49-inch chest, 32-inch waist"), plus a pair of legs that the Italians rank with those of Tenor Franco ("Golden Calves") Corelli. Thomas' voice was stamped with virility-clear, sturdy, securely focused, with a rich lyrical quality that is unusual among heldentenors. While his acting tends toward the hand-clasped-to-heart school, his he-man stature and curly black locks make him one of opera's most...
Taking the Plunge. Thomas has not yet graduated into the ranks of the full-fledged heldentenor. Basically, this requires a voice with the coloring of a baritone and the range of a tenor. Unlike the bel canto tenor who must employ vocal embroidery, the heldentenor must possess the raw power and endurance to sing the weightiest and longest roles in opera. The supreme tests are Wagner's Tristan and Siegfried, which require 65 and 90 minutes respectively, as compared, say, with the 22 minutes for Tosca. Lauritz Melchior, the last great heldentenor, did not attempt Tristan until...