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Tuesday 4 December 2018

Six Notable Male Opera Singers

By Ronald Richardson


If you check those playlists that teenagers have nowadays, for sure you would see pop, rock or hip-hop genres dominating on their playlists. From talented musicians like Bruno Mars to Taylor Swift, every human beings definitely are familiar with their songs. As a result, some cannot turn their eyes to classical genres since that is not the mainstream at the moment. Regardless with that, people must not ignore those classical musicians whether from ancient times or modern and at least, they must acknowledge these male classical opera singers.

Placido Domingo. He is a Spanish opera singer who is also a conductor and an administrator in arts. Predominantly, his singing voice was in spinto and then he shifted into dramatic tenor. He is best known for his Don Jose, Canio, Cavaradossi and Hoffman. Aside from that, he had won fourteen Latin Grammy and Grammy awards and had collaborated with Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti as The Three Tenors.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Dmitri was a world-renowned Russian artist with a timber of baritone and gain his international fame in year 1989 as he won a world competition. He also became part of the list of fifty most beautiful people in Peoples magazine for his striking aura and beautiful silver hair. One of his best performances is Eugene Onegin in which he collaborated with Renee Fleming. Unfortunately, in November 22, 2017, he died after battling his brain tumour.

Jose Carreras. Jose, a Spanish artist with a beautiful tenor voice, is noted for his performances from Puccini and Verdi. At the age of eleven, he started his operatic stage career then performed more than sixty roles and became famous particularly when he joined The Three Tenors alongside with Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. He had gained many awards from his career as well as humanitarian works.

Luciano Pavorotti. Luciano is one of the most successful operatic tenors of all time. He was an Italian artist who gained the title King of High Cs in twentieth century. He as well is part of Three Tenors and had helped in expanding the opera music throughout the world. He also had some collaborations with famous artists outside from this genre and received an award from Red Cross.

Andrea Bocelli. In classical music history, Andrea became the biggest-selling singer and been dubbed as king of classical crossover. He completely became blind when he was twelve years old due to accident. He collaborated with Celine Dion in a song, The Prayer, and it won a Golden Globe Award.

Lawrence Brownlee. A young American singer who is now also making his name in this field. Lawrence had received acclaims with his tenor voice and acts as well as his activities with Met. He had also worked with Renee Fleming Armida and Elina Garanca in La Centerola.

Philippe Jaroussky. Philippe has a French soprano countertenor voice which is quite uncommon for male artist. His versatility had been proven with his works in art songs and operas plus his technique in singing is certainly flawless. Philippe also received several awards and his Baroque works are something people, especially those who love this genre, should listen to.

Who says only females can hit high notes? Males can also do that. With these fellows, the opera genre still remains.




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