Tenor buffo
The tenor buffo (also play tenor ) is a light tenor voice that is used for cheerful, less dramatic roles in opera and especially operetta . It is as agile as a lyric tenor , but less heavy and bright than the hero tenor or a tenor of the character subject .
The position of the tenor buffo is rarely extremely high. Since most of the parts are rich in text, they are composed in an intelligible, not too high register. Some parts not only require the singer to use the chest voice , they also use his falsetto . In the French operatic tradition, the falsetto buffo is particularly popular.
A big distinction is seldom made between the German play tenor and its Italian brother, the tenor buffo . However, the game tenor is required to be able to speak dialogues. Its female counterpart is the soubrette .
Tenorbuffo is also a term for a vocal subject in opera (also operetta), in which the opera parts concerned are summarized. Examples are:
Opera:
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Fidelio - Jacquino
- Albert Lortzing : Tsar and carpenter - Peter Iwanow
- Albert Lortzing: The armorer - Georg, squire
- WA Mozart : The Abduction from the Seraglio - Pedrillo
- WA Mozart: The Magic Flute - Monostatos
- Otto Nicolai : The merry women of Windsor - Junker Spärlich
- Franz Schubert : The Conspirators - Udolin, Page
- Bedřich Smetana : Prodaná nevěsta ( The Bartered Bride ) - Vašek (Wenceslas)
- Richard Wagner : The Mastersingers of Nuremberg - David
- Hugo Wolf : The Corregidor - Pedro
Operetta:
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold : The silent serenade - Sam Borsalino
- Franz Lehár : The Land of Smiles - Obereunuch
- Jacques Offenbach : The beautiful Helena - Menelaus, King
- Johann Strauss (son) : The Gypsy Baron - Kálmán Zsupán, a wealthy pig farmer in the Banat
- Johann Strauss (son): Carnival in Rome - Count Falconi
- Arno Vetterling : Love in Lerchengasse - Wendolin Reitmayr
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kálmán Zsupán's first actor, the comedian Alexander Girardi , was a play tenor : Strauss notated the part in the treble clef. In theater practice, a bass buffo has prevailed, for which the role has to be transposed down by a minor or major third.