Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young tenor appearing as Radames in Verdi's A'ida had sung "magnificently," said the Manchester Guardian; his voice had "sweetness, heroic size and natural musicality." That review, and others like it, gave the tenor pause: "I decided I had better go somewhere and learn to sing...
Last week, just a year after making his debut in London with only a minimum of operatic training, the tenor was shuttling between London's Covent Garden, where he sang Canio in Pagliacci, and Amsterdam's Nederlandsche Opera, where he sang the notoriously difficult lead in Otello. The months of additional study at La Scala had not spoiled Philadelphia-born Leonard del Ferro, 31. European critics call him one of the most exciting male singers to come their way in years...
Back home in Philadelphia, Tenor del Ferro. son of an Italian father and a Russian mother, used to work out in amateur theatricals, sang pop songs for a while with Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, packaged and produced TV shows, even played a season of semi-pro football. But all the time he yearned to "go legit" as a singer, briefly studied voice in New York. An agent advised him to get live dramatic experience, and he took off for England, where Covent Garden promptly offered the role of Radames in A'ida after a single audition. Since then...
Music for a Spring Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-The Metropolitan Opera's Coloratura Roberta Peters and Baritone Robert Merrill join Soprano Eleanor Steber and Tenor Richard Tucker in a program that includes a tribute to the late great baritone, Leonard Warren...
Lucine Amara, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Basso Jerome Hines in a program of classical music. Color...