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tenor) The approximate range of the tenor voice. Highest range of the adult male singing voice when not using falsetto, approximately C3-A5. It is the preferred voice for operatic heroic roles. Well-known tenors are Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. It is also used before the name of an instrument that sounds in the same range as the tenor voice, for example tenor saxophone. The word comes from the Latin teneo ‘I hold’, because it ‘held’ the plainsong theme in early polyphony. |
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More significant was the very mounting of a Wagner opera in Disney Hall, where the sheer force of a symphony orchestra - not incidentally conducted to a fare-thee-well by a music director determined to impress - couldn't help but overwhelm even the mightiest dramatic soprano or heldentenor. The big news, however, wasn't Domingo's tackling of Heldentenor fare, nor his gathering of some fine fellow singers, but rather his securing the participation of St. The entirely new cast stars Behle and heldentenor Siegfried Jerusalem as the insatiable paramours. |
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