Tenor di grazia

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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

Great singers

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