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Heldentenor Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and his wife, Malvina, in the title roles of Tristan und Isolde, 1865.. A heldentenor (German: [ˈhɛl.dn̩.teˌnoːɐ̯] ⓘ; [1] English: heroic tenor), [2] [3] [4] earlier called tenorbariton, [1] is an operatic tenor voice, most often associated with Wagnerian repertoire.
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album five stars and said that "At the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival, the music was consistently inspired and often historic. . Count Basie welcomed back tenor great Lester Young and singer Jimmy Rushing for part of a very memorable set...Young plays beautifully throughout and Rushing is in prime
Stephen Grady Gould (January 24, 1962 – September 19, 2023) was an American heldentenor and leading interpreter of Richard Wagner's stage works. He performed around 100 times at the Bayreuth Festival, notably as Tannhäuser starting in 2004, and later Siegfried and Tristan.
A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.It is the highest male chest voice type. [1] Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below middle C to the G above middle C (i.e. B 2 to G 4) in choral music, and from the second B flat below middle C to the C above middle C (B ♭ 2 to C 5) in ...
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C 3 (C one octave below middle C), to the high C (C 5). The low extreme for tenors is roughly A 2 (two octaves below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to F one octave above middle C (F ...
A jazz term which instructs chord-playing musicians such as a jazz pianist or jazz guitarist to perform a dominant (V7) chord with altered upper extensions (e.g. sharp 11th, flat 13th, etc.). altissimo. Very high. alto. High; often refers to a particular range of voice or instrument, higher than a tenor but lower than a soprano (e.g. alto sax) amp
Richard Cassilly (December 14, 1927 – January 30, 1998) was an American operatic tenor who had a major international opera career between 1954–90. Cassilly "was a mainstay in the heldentenor repertory in opera houses around the world for 30 years", and particularly excelled in Wagnerian roles like Tristan, Siegmund and Tannhäuser, and in dramatic parts that required both stamina and vocal ...
Peter Hofmann (22 August 1944 – 30 November 2010) [1] was a German tenor who had a successful performance career within the fields of opera, rock, pop, and musical theatre. He first rose to prominence as a heldentenor at the Bayreuth festival 's Jahrhundertring ( Centenary Ring ) in 1976, where he drew critical acclaim for his performance of ...