3/7 Rolando Villazón - What Makes a Great Tenor? BBC

3/7 Rolando Villazón - What Makes a Great Tenor?
BBC Four
2.06.2010
The great tenor Rolando Villazon takes us inside the world of the sexiest and most risky of all operatic voices. It's a journey which includes some of the great names of the past, such as Caruso and Lanza, and some of the brightest stars performing today, like Domingo, Alagna and Florez. We hear how they tackle their most famous roles and what the risks and rewards are

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• ROLANDO
• VILLAZON
• TENOR
• BBC

[Scarpia90]

Rolando, Corelli is not dramatic tenor! Del Monaco is a dramatic tenor! I think Corelli was spinto, not dramatico!

[teresa59]

@Scarpia90, "Franco Corelli (8 April 1921 – 29 October 2003) was a famous Italian tenor, associated in particular with the spinto and dramatic tenor roles of the Italian repertory..." (Wikipedia.es)

[Transoxiana94]

Who was the Romeo? He was awesome!

[teresa59]

@Transoxiana94, Romeo is Roberto Alagna

[ndelrozario09]

Who's the tenor that is shown singing after Wunderlich?

[teresa59]

@ndelrozario09, Is Rainer Trost.

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" Rainer Trost Cosi Fan Tutte Un aura amorosa "

[Dtrollmancan]

@Scarpia90

Jelli any one?

[tommieboy1657]

@nowayitskevin it's John Treleaven, I think...

[nowayitskevin]

who was the wagnerian tenor?

[hightenor123]

Alagna was so good in the lyric rep.

[hightenor123]

@javmex2003 John Treleaven

[javmex2003]

who is the helden tenor that is simging the wagner sigfried aria

[MasterIsh91]

@Scarpia90 I think he was a Spinto bordering on Dramatic, he definitely wouldn't have suited any Wagner roles though.

[Labienus]

So they were using dramatic loosely-don't get all worked up-let's say an Italian dramatic-Corelli sang all the heavy Italian roles, other than Otello-which he could have sung They distinquish between that and a helden-Corelli like all good spintos he was also lyric-not light lyric-but sang Romeo, Werther even Edgardo later in his career-but even from thebeginning his voice was robust

[jakobusthom]

this is perfect entertainment... bravissimo!!

[honestopera]

@teresa59 List 1 dramatic role Corelli sang.... Otello? No. Siegfried? No. Siegmund? No. Parsifal? No.

Find 1 such role and you can start to have an argument. Wikipedia is full of mistakes. Scarpia90 is absolutely correct. Corelli was a Spinto fully capable of the impact and volume for singing the dramatic works but too successful and well balanced in and well suited in the rep he was doing to make the leap worthwhile. Something is always lost when making the jump to that rep.