Tenor di grazia
Tenore di grazia ( Italian , literally: " Tenor of (with) grace"; synonymous with tenore leggero ) is an Italian operatic term for a tenor type that lies between the tenore contraltino and the heavier tenore lirico ( lyrical tenor ).
The tenore di grazia is characterized above all by an elegant (“graceful”) line ( phrasing ), mobility and flexibility of the voice guidance and a mostly warm (“sweet”) or very light (“white”) vocal color ( timbre ).
The genre of the tenore di grazia originated in the time of the romantic Belcanto style between approx. 1810 and 1850, in which this tenor type was often intended to play the roles of the adolescent lover or hero. The most famous and celebrated tenor of the first half of the 19th century, Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1853), was a singer of this type. In some world premieres of the works of Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti, he sang those parts which up to our days stand for the vocal character of the tenore di grazia .
Famous representatives of the subject were or are: Victor Capoul , Alessandro Bonci , Tito Schipa , the young Giacomo Lauri-Volpi , Cesare Valletti , Alfredo Kraus and, in the present, Juan Diego Flórez .
Important and distinctive roles
- Conte Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini
- Arturo in I puritani by Vincenzo Bellini
- Chapelou in Le postillon de Lonjumeau by Adolphe Adam
- Don Ramiro In La Cenerentola by Rossini
- Elvino in La sonnambula by Bellini
- Ernesto in Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
- Fenton in the Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
- Lindoro in L'italiana in Algeri by Rossini
- Nemorino in L'elisir d'amore by Donizetti
- Tonio in La fille du régiment by Donizetti
Great singers
- Luigi Alva
- Francisco Araiza
- Alessandro Bonci
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Alfredo Kraus
- Fernando de Lucia
- Tito Schipa
- Ferruccio Tagliavini
literature
- Jens Malte Fischer : Big voices. From Enrico Caruso to Jessye Norman (= Suhrkamp-Taschenbuch . 2484). License issue. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-38984-X .
- Jürgen Kesting : The great singers. License issue. Bärenreiter, Kassel etc. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7618-2230-2 .
- Peter-Michael Fischer : The voice of the singer. Analysis of their function and performance - history and methodology of voice training. 2nd revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart a. Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-476-01604-8 .