Heldentenor

I am only giving one aria for this tenor. I think that that is sufficient to have a gist of what he sounded like. This is a heldentenor (a heroic...

Jean Cox was an American heldentenor who spent most of his career in Europe. He spent 10 years at Bayreuth, which is the holy of holies for Wagnerian singing. He...

Hans Hopf was a post-war German Heldentenor. He was one of crop of Heldentenors that arose immediately after WWII. He had a large voice. I would caution listeners not to...

I have a confession to make. There was a time that if an opera wasn't one of Wagner's operas, then I couldn't listen to it. Fortunately for me, my Wagner...

This is an interesting post. Ludwig Suthaus was a well known and very popular heldentenor around the time of WWII and after. When you listen to him sing Wagner, you...

Set Svanholm was a very well known heroic tenor (heldentenor) during the post WWII period. What is interesting about Svanholm is that he also sang Lieder (Art Song). It is...

Max Lorenz was one of the great heldentenors of the 20th century. After WWII, many people (wrongly) assumed Lorenz had been a Nazi. He became an Austrian citizen, but questions...

I owe this posting to one of my readers, who suggested Urlus to me. Otherwise, I never would have heard of him! Urlus was one of the great helden tenors...

James King (May 22, 1925 – November 20, 2005) was an American operatic tenor who had an active international singing career in operas and concerts from the 1950s through 2000....