Sentence examples for favourite tenor from inspiring English sources

"If you want to use...something more derogatory, we don't care".To the frustration of his rivals, though they were gentlemanly about it, Pavarotti became the world's favourite tenor.

For all its otherworldliness, the latest version is by a Classic FM favourite, tenor Alfie Boe, sandwiched on his album Alfie between The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and When You Wish Upon a Star.

During their 10-year collaboration Herbert von Karajan described Carreras as "my favourite tenor", while the soprano Montserrat Caballé – who had spotted the honeyed quality of his voice on his operatic debut in Barcelona when Carreras was just 18 and shared the platform with him on his London debut in 1971 – had become an invaluable artistic mentor.

My favourite... tenor arias.

Throughout the week Rob shares some of his favourite tenor arias, with voices both familiar (Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker and the legendary Carlo Bergonzi) and unfamiliar (Bruno Prevedi and Flaviano Labo).

For a start, he wouldn't have been the lucky recipient of a Google doodle, an animated one, no less, showing the world's favourite moustachioed rock tenor on a mission through time and space, doing various implausible things alluded to in the lyrics of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now, including leaping through space, riding a tiger and racing a car like, er, Lady Godiva.

But they were a regular favourite of the great tenor Peter Schreier, who made two studio recordings of all the settings intended for a male singer.

Heeding the advice, he beat more than 1,000 hopefuls to win a place and ended up touring with them, feeding a childhood passion for classical music that had been nurtured by Sunday evenings spent round the dining table with his father listening to his favourite singers, including the tenor Richard Tauber.

But meanwhile, it is still associated with the finest tenors in the history of opera, who had no need to muck around with the key: Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling and Franco Corelli all recorded it, for instance, and it was a favourite at the Three Tenors events with Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and, of course, Luciano Pavarotti, at whose funeral it was played.

Smith's high tenor voice made him a favourite on the sound system circuit after he voiced a number of dubplates at the legendary engineer King Tubby's nearby studio.

Not only is France's entry, sung by tenor Amaury Vassili, considered a very hot favourite, but there is also the running order to overcome.