Sentence examples for Lead tenor from inspiring English sources

Two years later he sang his first lead tenor role, Alfredo in Verdi's "Traviata" in Monterrey.

Per operatic tradition, the lead tenor tends to be a sap.

It is a tribute to Davis's authority that the difficulties of the lead tenor hardly registered.

During the 1960s he was lead tenor for the Village Light Opera Group.

Originally calling themselves the Belmonts (after the avenue on which Mr. Milano lived), they became Dion and the Belmonts in 1957 when Dion DiMucci joined as lead tenor.

Of the six Highwaymen, only Mr. Fisher, the lead tenor and organizer of the group, stayed in the business, as a music director for films and television.

The Spanish theatre director Bieito caused a furore when it was disclosed that his version of Verdi's opera would include the rape and murder of a male youth, cross-dressing, male and female nudity and a scene in which the chorus sang while sat on the toilet – decisions which were said to have led tenor Julian Gavin to turn down the leading role.

And the lead-tenor role that of Arnold, a conflicted Swiss in love with a Hapsburg princess, Mathilde is punishing.

And the lead-tenor role — that of Arnold, a conflicted Swiss in love with a Hapsburg princess, Mathilde — is punishing.

That change of format amounts to a complete tactical overhaul, since it's one thing to lead a tenor saxophone trio, with only bass and drums, and another to front a conventional quartet.

The distribution of roles in Underground, beyond Mr. Potter's lead on tenor or bass clarinet, is a shifting concern: at points in a tune the bass line might migrate from Fender Rhodes to guitar, or a fragment of melody could be handed off in the opposite direction.