Sentence examples for distinguished tenor from inspiring English sources

He later studied with the distinguished tenor Carlo Bergonzi.

She sang the title role 124 times with the company, many of them opposite the distinguished tenor Richard Tucker as Don José.

(Smith) ★ Michael Schade and Luca Pisaroni (Sunday) Mr. Schade, a distinguished tenor, and the rising, rich-voiced bass-baritone Mr. Pisaroni join the pianist Justus Zeyen in an impeccably proper program of duets by Mendelssohn and songs by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms.

A letter published at Mantua in 1612 records that the distinguished tenor and composer Francesco Rasi took part, and it is generally assumed that he sang the title role.

He soon learned, and eventually studied privately with the distinguished English tenor Peter Pears, Britten's life partner.

That this distinguished German tenor began his musical life as a choirboy seems crucial to his mature artistry.

Anthony Rolfe Johnson, an Englishman who began his professional life as a farmer and ended it as a distinguished lyric tenor who had performed to glowing notices in the world's most storied opera houses and concert halls, died on July 21 in London.

The distinguished German lyric tenor Christoph Prégardien's Wigmore recital consisted of what is usually considered to be the greatest of all song-cycles – Schubert's Winterreise – with one of his regular collaborators, Michael Gees, at the piano.

And it was a lovely idea to have the distinguished 81-year-old tenor Ernst Haefliger perform the Speaker, whose long narrative ties up the story.

One might expect Holofernes, the enemy general, to be a thundering bass; but in Scarlatti's rendering he is a distinguished and well-behaved tenor.

The British tenor Philip Langridge, a distinguished veteran of Mozart, Wagner, Mussorgsky and Britten who was daringly cast as the Witch in "Hansel and Gretel," likened Mr. Jurowski to the conductor Claudio Abbado.