Tenor

Il Trovatore is one of Verdi's most popular operas, yet it is one of his most confusing. Rather than try to summarize myself, I'm just going to point you to...

John McCormack was a very special singer. He himself admitted that he was no actor, and opera critics agreed with that self-appraisal. But his voice made up for perceived lack...

JOSEPH SCHMIDT It is impossible to assess how many great artists were among the casualties of the last war. We do know that Joseph Schmidt, who died at the young...

Richard Tucker was unquestionably one of America’s greatest tenors.  He was known as the American Caruso.  As with many of his contemporaries, the Second World War gave him the opportunity...

Considered among the finest Mozartean tenors of his day, Wunderlich embraced a wide repertory that expanded to included the works of Strauss, Schubert, Bach, and Mahler, and he left behind...

Parisian-born Henri Legay (1920–1992) won first prize at the conservatoire in 1947 but began his career singing in musical shows before making his operatic début in Brussels in 1950. He...

Lauri-Volpi enjoyed one of history’s longest careers, making his last opera performance at the age of 67 and astonished the world of opera by releasing a recital disc when he...

This is a special posting. There will be many people who have not heard of Hugues Cuénod, who died in 2010 at 108. Cuénod had a light French tenor voice,...

The short, but brilliant career of the Spanish tenor Miguel Fleta lasted for sixteen years, from his debut in Trieste 1919 until his retirement in 1935. He died three years...