Tenor

Lionello Cecil or Lionel Cecil Sherwood, was born in Australia in 1893. He studied in Australia and in Italy. He was a lyric tenor who had good legato and whose...

Alain Vanzo was a French lyric tenor. He did not have an enormous voice, but he was a lyric tenor during a period when larger Italian and German vocal styles...

I seem to be lost in France these days. Here is a really good French, lyric tenor. The voice is bright, which is not the trend today. Today's aesthetic is...

I originally made a posting about Mario Filippeschi in 2023. I am posting him again with different selections. I think that he is worth hearing again. Mario Filippeschi was a...

I made a post that included Aksel Schiølz in 2018.  I decided to post him again after I listened to his Messiah and the Dichterliebe.  Before his surgery (see below),...

Karl Erb was a famous German tenor who really had two careers. In the first career, he was a heldentenor, singing many of the helden parts in Germany. For example,...

Rosvaenge had a brilliant spinto voice. He was also active under the Nazi regime. These artists, those who collaborated with the Nazis, are always difficult for me to post. Rosvaenge...

I would like to post Karl Friedrich, who was a famous Austrian tenor during the post-WWII period. There is very little information on Friedrich on the internet, and so I...

I am posting this entry of Schock not because he was the greatest singer of his day, but because he was so popular and ubiquitous. I don't think that the...