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THE SITE PHILOSOPHY This Web site is dedicated mainly to tenors. It provides information such as discographies, repertories, short biographies, sound files, recollections of performances I attended, and links to other sites. Tenors are listed by linguistic and/or geographical affiliations (Italian, Spanish, French, etc...). For the other tenors, other categories exist. You will find them in the tenors' index. There are many more names that shall be added on a continous basis. This list does not pretend to be complete. You can also find a main index of tenors currently on the site. This includes a section on Tenors in disguise (tenors singing in other keys). The chronological information provided for some tenors does not pretend to be complete. A section on non-tenor items has been added. This is reserved either for singers that did not get the recognition they deserved or for very rare non-tenor recordings. In this section, you can link to section on "non-tenors singing tenor arias and/or in tenor key", maybe it is a "secret tenor dreams" section. There is a section on singer book reviews and associated dictionaries. This is not limited to tenors. You will also find articles on the death of opera, on the current lack of great singers, the lack of vision of today's new vocal teachers, and hopefully many more. Opera is dying. You will read why in the article by Joseph Shore. Nowadays it is considered good singing when you can barely be heard but demonstrate great artistry. What ever this means! If you believe that Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti were among the greatest tenors of all time, well this site is not for you. Carreras had a very beautiful voice, but his lack of technique and singing non suitable parts resulted in his destruction. He never learned to cover. Pavarotti never had a large voice, had a lyrical voice with a good easy top that he destroyed by singing heavy parts and trying to produce a sound large enough to be heard in large theatre. In short, he was what is called in France an opera-comique tenor. He should have sung that repertory. Domingo was the best of the three as far as musicality is concerned. On the other hand, he never had a top to talk about or any squillo. He sang so many different roles without any differentiation in their characterizations. If you believe that Bocelli is an opera singer, that either Grigolo, Alagna, Alvarez or Kaufmann are great tenors, well this site is not for you. Not that it is better on the German Helden Tenor Brood: Klaus Florian Vogt and Stefan Vinke, both are awful. Additions and corrections are welcome and will be acknowledged. Francois Nouvion |
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