In recent years Plácido Domingo has focused on weighty roles suited to his dark dramatic tenor voice.
That weighty role suits his dark heroic tenor voice at this stage of his career.
In recent years Plácido Domingo has increasingly focused on weighty roles suited to his dark dramatic tenor voice.
He had to start again from scratch and find his real voice, and it was working with the American singing teacher Michael Rhodes that eventually unlocked his dark, baritonal tenor.
Franco Corelli is not the only tall, dark and handsome tenor in the en tire history of opera.
Despite the grandeur of the architecture, down here is a gloomy place, with its shady Piranesian views of arcades descending into dark water, the tenor hum of the road traffic and the bass rumble of the trains.
An "Otello" at the Opera Company of Boston three decades ago featured James McCracken, a white tenor, wearing dark makeup to play Otello, and Shirley Verrett, the African-American soprano, wearing light makeup to play his bride, Desdemona.
Mr. Herring, a dark horse of the tenor saxophone since the 80's, has one of the most forceful, commanding sounds around, and in this band, paired with the equally strong trumpeter Eddie Henderson, he'll be in competitive surroundings.
In Gone to the Forest, it allows her to portray schematic character representatives and interactions; the tenor is dark, folktale reportage, with the slightly increased novelistic complications of gender, family and race.
Honing included Abba's Waterloo ("the Swedish national anthem") in his set back then – though as a dark and Coltrane-esque tenor-sax lament – and he still likes that approach, with Bowie's Bring Me the Disco King and Goldfrapp's Paper Bag on his new album, True.
