Sentence examples for romantic tenor from inspiring English sources

As a romantic tenor, Zampa automatically appears in a more tractable, more civilized light.

The focus is on late-night, romantic tenor saxophone playing, an art that reached its zenith in the 1940's and 50's and isn't completely lost.

While that novel is written in a more romantic tenor — a fling with a much-younger hunk — entrepreneurial independence is part of its happy ending.

He went on to appear in opera, concerts and musicals, and on radio and television, but at five feet tall, his lack of height told against him for the romantic tenor repertory in which he excelled.

In Act III, as Cavaradossi looked up at the sky prior to singing "E lucevan le stelle," the sight of a tall, handsome, doomed romantic tenor in awe of the approaching dawn (aided by Christopher Maravich's sensitive lighting design) was startling in its honesty and emotional simplicity.

Performing music from that album at Shine on Monday night, her purring, flirty voice flowed around ghostly, thrice-removed drum samples; Ze Luis nudged in with a hyper-romantic tenor saxophone line; orchestral recordings blended with her guitarist's bossa nova chord voicings.

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, guesting on three tracks, is warmly romantic on tenor on the loping Tabu, agile and fluent on the Cuban dance-shuffle Bebo, and mercurial on a soprano-sax break full of north African microtonalisms on the hurtling, horn-hooting finale, Abdel.

Fabiana Bravo achieved some loud and passionate singing as Fiora; Fernando de la Mora had nearly the shape of a romantic Italian tenor, but sang unevenly, as if switching between different vocal gears and, on some high notes, seeking the pitch.

On his album, "O" (Vector), the Irish songwriter Damien Rice sings kindly romantic confessions in a sweet tenor.

Britten wrote his seldom-performed work "An American Overture" in 1941 during a three-year stint living in America, where he moved with the tenor Peter Pears, his romantic and artistic partner.

Black female opera singers have long been accepted, he noted, unlike black tenors hoping for romantic leads.