Adolescent hero tenor

The youthful heroic tenor is the tenor's own vocal subject , which can interpret both lyrical and more dramatic passages. He lies between the lyric tenor and the heroic tenor .

In technical terms, the young hero tenor is referred to as tenore lirico for the easier and tenore lirico spinto for the more dramatic parts.

Role examples for the youth hero tenor

• Don José in G. Bizet's Carmen
• Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème
• Calaf in Puccini's Turandot
• Radames in Verdi's Aida
• Title role in Verdi's Don Carlos
• Achilles in Ch. W. Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide
• Title role in Wagner's Lohengrin
• Title role in Wagner's Parsifal
• Max in Weber's Freischütz

Singer of the youthful hero tenor subject are for example: Plácido Domingo , Klaus Florian Vogt , Jonas Kaufmann , Rolando Villazón , Luciano Pavarotti or José Carreras , but also Siegfried Jerusalem (who later also sang the difficult subject), Peter Hofmann (also) and the American Robert Dean Smith .

The repertoire of the Italian tenore spinto (partly also in the mixed form of lirico spinto) was sung by, among others, Enrico Caruso , Beniamino Gigli , Jussi Björling , Giuseppe Di Stefano , Franco Corelli , Carlo Bergonzi , Luciano Pavarotti , Plácido Domingo , José Carreras , but es is not for the traditional hero tenor.

The vocal range of the youthful heroic tenor ranges from c - c ″.