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  2. Tenor - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Heldentenor - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Voice type - Wikipedia

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    Tenor range: The tenor is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3 (one octave below middle C) to C5 (one octave above middle C). The low extreme for tenors is roughly B ♭ 2 (the second B-flat below middle C). At the highest extreme, some tenors can sing up to F5 (the second F above middle C).

  5. James King (tenor) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In 1956 King came to the personal realization that he was in fact a tenor and not a baritone. [1] He began retraining his voice with French baritone Martial Singher and later German tenor Max Lorenz in order to achieve this goal. [3] In 1960 he began his career as a tenor as a resident artist with the Saint Louis Municipal Opera.

  6. William Cochran (tenor) - Wikipedia

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    Born in Columbus, Ohio, Cochran studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Martial Singher.He attended the Music Academy of the West in 1967 and 1968. [1] A winner of the Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Foundation Award, he debuted with the Metropolitan Opera as Vogelgesang in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, in 1968.

  7. List of tenors in non-classical music - Wikipedia

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    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).

  8. Category:Heldentenors - Wikipedia

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    This term is usually applied to the few voices that can sing persuasively the great heroic tenor roles in German opera, especially Wagner. Pages in category "Heldentenors" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total.

  9. Richard Cassilly - Wikipedia

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    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 ...