Sentence examples for tenor title from inspiring English sources

The tenor title role is a voice killer.

Viardot's most lasting bequest to the operatic world will probably be the edition of Gluck's Orphée that Berlioz made for her, transposing the tenor title role into contralto range; it is still relatively unusual for the opera to be performed this way, but singers including Anne Sofie von Otter and Vesselina Kasarova have been persuasive recent advocates.

So, who is the tenor in the title role?

Daniel Ebbers, a tenor, sings the title role, and Martin Josman conducts.

Stephen Costello, a prominent young American tenor, takes the title role, with Mariella Devia as Elizabeth.

Most performances of Wagner's "Siegfried" have a void at the center: the tenor singing the title role.

If Neil Shicoff's hard-driving, hard-working tenor in the title role did not ring luxuriously, it certainly gained in veracity as the evening went on.

Baritones, or bass baritones, are fortunate that when Rubinstein came to write an opera based on the story of Mikhail Lermontov's popular poem, "The Demon", he avoided using the customary glamorous voice of the tenor for the title role.

The main draw of the revival of John Cox's realistic production of course is the current tenor singing the title role, Roberto Alagna, who has been highly acclaimed for his stylish work in the French repertory.

Correction: January 21 , 2004 Wednesday A review yesterday about a concert peformance of Britten's opera "Peter Grimes" by the London Symphony Orchestra credited the tenor in the title role, Glenn Winslade, incorrectly with another performance last summer.

The third installment in the first of three performances of Wagner's "Ring" cycle opens at the Metropolitan Opera tomorrow afternoon, and, as usual with this opera, most of the attention will be focused on the tenor singing the title role.