heroic tenor

He is being called the leading heroic tenor of our times.

Maybe this is the heroic tenor we've been waiting for.

Most heroic tenors come to their profession by some other route.

He's a real heroic tenor, all right, but not a very dulcet or moving Siegfried.

That weighty role suits his dark heroic tenor voice at this stage of his career.

Miss Tully professed to hope for miracles, but allowed as how she has heard just three heroic tenors in 97 1/2 years of living.

Except for one chap who falls two inches short, all the aspiring heroic tenors exceed six feet.

Though primarily known as a lyric tenor, he also sang heroic tenor roles with success.

Apparently, festival organizers said, he could not face another string of performances of this daunting heroic tenor role.

Like most of Friday's contestants, heroic tenors tend to begin as baritones and extend their voices upward.

In 1947 he returned to the Budapest Opera, where he was the leading heroic tenor until 1984.

Tannhauser may not be the longest Wagner heroic tenor part, but its high tessitura makes it one of the most difficult.

It says much about our indolent age that not a few opera buffs believe there have been no real heroic tenors since his death in 1973.

As the Melchior Heroic Tenor Foundation will tell you, heroes are hard to find.

Except, perhaps, for heroic tenors.

A heroic tenor, not a hero."

His heroic tenor is large but effortful, and he lost voice and confidence toward the end of the long final duet on Friday.

"The heroic tenor will become as extinct as the dodo bird unless he has help," Melchior said exactly 25 years ago yesterday.

For years, administration of the Melchior Foundation has been haphazard - perhaps the reason it has found no heroic tenors.

The singer needs a very strong voice, often called a "Heldentenor" in German (a "heroic tenor").

He admits to mixed feelings about the term "heldentenor," whose embodiments do not always live up to the literal meaning, heroic tenor.

Benjamin Butterfield gave a towering performance as Bajazet, perhaps the first heroic tenor role in opera history.

Of the singers, the best was Gary Bachlund as Jimmy - a handsome presence and a real heroic tenor.

We are used to hearing heroic tenors in this music at the Metropolitan Opera - Richard Cassilly, for instance.

The concept of a heldentenor was Wagner's invention: a heroic tenor with previously unimaginable reserves of power and stamina.