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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Tenors


5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Tenors
Rufus Wainwright, Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and others choose opera’s most passionate, golden voices.
Credit.Angie Wang
March 3, 2021
Now we want to convince those curious friends to love the passionate, ringing tenor voice. We hope you find lots here to discover and enjoy; leave your choices in the comments.
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Rufus Wainwright, composer and songwriter
My dad, Loudon, has never much liked opera. But when I was 13, the opera bug struck me hard, and I’m pretty sure that in an effort to better understand what I was going through, he bought a Luciano Pavarotti CD. One of the tracks was a thrilling version of “Di rigori armato seno” from Strauss’s “Der Rosenkavalier,” and I became entranced with the aria. Pavarotti’s rendition also connects me to a later, magnificent experience when, during a performance of “Rosenkavalier” I was attending at the Metropolitan Opera, Luciano magically app ....

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