Friday, December 7, 2018

Six Well-Known Male Opera Singers

By Ronald Richardson


Nowadays, the music had been evolving and many people are now listening more on to pop music. However, humans should still not sleep on other genres too. Just like opera music, more likely it has less population of listeners. Perhaps you have no idea of some musicians catering to that. But this article will provide you famous male singers with golden voices. Perhaps you have known others. Nevertheless, knowing them might surely enthuse you about classical opera singers.

Placido Domingo. Placido is really notable and a Spanish singer with spinto voice that moved into dramatic tenor. He won several awards included Grammy as well as Latin Grammy. Aside from that, he is also an arts administrator and a conductor. Placido is noted for his best performance in Hoffman, Canio, Cavaradossi and Don Jose. In addition, he is also part of The Three Tenors with Luciano Pavarotti and also Jose Carreras. Their collaboration had become successful and famous.

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. If everyone knows Celine Dion, perhaps everyone also knows the existence of this man. Not only he gain fame from his song duet with Celine Dion in The Prayer but also his voice had received acclaims from many artists. He is into classical crossover and turned into a biggest-selling singer throughout the history.

Lawrence Brownlee. Lawrence is an American tenor who got several positive reviews from both audiences and musicians from his voice. He also got praise from his performance in Armida together with Renee Fleming and his several engagement with Metropolitan Opera. His best works includes his performance in La Centerola in which Elina Garanca is part of that.

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.

These men had really shaped this genre. Hopefully, this new generation will also produce operatic singers. That way, this genre will continue to live.




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