Tenor : history of a voice /

Main Author: Potter, John, tenor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The prehistory of the voice
  • Handel, Mozart and the tenor-castrato connection
  • Nourrit, Duprez and the tenorino d'hier
  • The tenor as artist
  • Caruso and the Italian succession
  • The romantic tenor hero
  • Splendid isolationists? : the British Isles in the twentieth century
  • France and the decline of linguistic lyricism
  • Russia and the preservation of lost traditions
  • The twentieth-century Heldentenor
  • Post-war losses and gains
  • Notes
  • Tenorography
  • Audio, video and website sources
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.