Tenor

If one is going to know something about opera in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, one must know something about Franco Corelli.  Corelli was born in Ancona.  Ancona is a...

Nicolai Gedda, a Swedish-born singer who was one of the most renowned lyric tenors of the 20th century and performed dozens of roles on the world’s leading opera stages. From...

I posted Alfredo Kraus a few years ago, and I am posting him again because he is a wonderful example of "singing on the breath". To understand what this phrase...

One of the nice things about this blog is that I get to find mostly forgotten singers and hear them for the first time. I "discover" a lot of singers...

Ever on the hunt for good, expressive singing, I came across Jean Panel, who, in his time, was a very well known French tenor. I would have liked to use...

Unfortunately, there is very little information on Lappas on the internet. He has become obscure. However, Lappas was regarded as one of the leading, internationally acclaimed Greek tenors of the...

Louis Cazette, was born in 1887, and died April 29, 1922 in Paris. He made his debut 1920 at the Paris Opéra-Comique, and his career was very promising. He died...

Richard Tucker was a leading tenor for the Metropolitan Opera for 30 years. Only two other star singers in the company's 90‐year history—Giovanni Martinelli, the tenor, and Antonio Scotti, the...

In French song, the singer becomes a painter, describing a landscape, suggesting an emotion…One must use the entire palette of colors of the voice…” — Michel Sénéchal I think that...