Re: the Puritani "high F" from credeasi misera

[Kibouo]

I don't know whether the recording has raised the pitch, but that is a high F sharp, not F

[Blackwargreymon]

apesta

[AfroPoli]

Bruttissimo. 

[tenorbass100]

Falzet.

[donaldrose]

This opera was written just after one particular tenor (whose name escapes me) demonstrated how to move into the tenor high range above A in the early 19th cenrury. I think its first staging was about 1835.

Before this, opera composers like Mozart rarely moved beyond F or G on the tenor clef. Very quickly composers realised that trying to sing chest tone above a D-flat did not produce a musical, masculine or even a pleasant sound.

[bachsnachkomme]

@donaldrose the tenor you might be saying is Rubini, the one for whom Bellini wrote the Elvino :D

[antidinosaur]

Do you have the whole song?

[juanmaplante]

puede tener el agudo, pero todo lo demás deja mucho por desear.

[frevigom]

@juanmaplante Estoy de acuerdo... comienza bien, pero.... no cubre y forza... abre el sonido... solo el agudo es meritorio

[raigekimaru]

it's ZP Theart's dad ;P

[TheInquisitive4Ever]

Being a former heavy metal surely helps him...lol

[asisecanta]

BRAVO!!!

[jowox]

and a very good one!! he doesn´t pause before the F as he does in the 1996 carneige version in my main video. very chesty and non-feminine sounding, thanks a lot! let me know if you find chris merritts F also.