He created the tenor lead, Nils, in the world premiere of Delius's Irmelin under Sir Thomas Beecham in Oxford in 1953.

Canio, the tenor lead in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and Lohengrin in Wagner's opera of the same name, are other well-known examples of spinto tenor parts.

Casting the tenor lead as a nerd was one of Weill's more inspired ideas, but while he is utterly believable, he's not very appealing despite Peter Furlong's strong singing.

He also gave (in 1894) a single performance as the tenor lead in Massenet's Werther.

She teaches me a song, then I sing a tenor lead while- she harmonizes in soprano.

First the tenor understudy withdrew from the cast; not a problem in itself, except that the tenor lead, Luca Canonici, got laryngitis just before rehearsals.

Adorno is a character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra; he is the tenor lead, and is the love interest of Boccanegra's daughter.

He also played Piquillo, the tenor lead, in the accompanying presentation of Jacques Offenbach's La Périchole.

This format features a high tenor lead with a "talking bass" in the song's middle.

Accordingly, in November 1892, he was engaged by the Florence opera house to create the tenor lead in Mascagni's third opera, I Rantzau.