My first response is, take a look at tenor arias from operas by Rossini,
Donizetti, Bellini (i.e., Bel Canto composers) - also look at the
extensive song repertoire by these three composers; from operas by
Gluck, Rameau, Thomas Arne, Purcell, and Monteverdi; from operas and
oratorios by Handel; from masses, oratorios, and cantatas by Bach; also
operettas by Lehar, Kalman, Herbert, and Sullivan; songs/cycles by
Schubert, Britten (e.g., Holy Sonnets of John Donne; Seven Sonnets of
Michelangelo), Brahms, Shostakovich, etc.
Warlock - The Curlew
Finzi - Intimations of Immortality; Dies Natalis
Delius - A Late Lark; Sakuntala
Take a look also at arias for the following characters from the following
operas:
Smetana: THE BARTERED BRIDE - Jenek
Stravinsky: THE RAKE'S PROGRESS - Tom Rakewell
Ambroise Thomas: MIGNON - Wilhelm
: HAMLET - Laerte
Vaughan Williams: HUGH THE DROVER - Hugh
Beethoven: FIDELIO - Jacquino
von Weber: OBERON - Oberon
Puccini: GIANNI SCHICCHI - Rinuccio
: LA RONDINE - Prunier
von Flotow: MARTHA/MARTA - Lionel
Massenet: MANON - Des Grieux*
WERTHER - Werther*
R. Strauss: DER ROSENKAVALIER - Der italianische Saenger
Barber: VANESSA - Anatol*
: A HAND OF BRIDGE - Bill
Auber: FRA DIAVOLO - Fra Diavolo
Leoncavallo: I PAGLIACCI - Beppe
Boito: MEFISTOFOLE - Faust
Berlioz: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST - Faust*
: BEATRICE ET BENEDICT - Benedict
: LES TROYENS - Iopas and Hylas
Borodin: PRINCE IGOR - Vladimir
Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN - Lensky*
Bernstein: CANDIDE - Candide
: WEST SIDE STORY - Tony
Michael Balfe: THE BOHEMIAN GIRL - Thaddeus and Florestein
J. Strauss: DIE FLEDERMAUS - Eisenstein
Britten: ALBERT HERRING - Albert
: PAUL BUNYAN - Insklinger
Cherubini: MEDEE - Jason
Copland: THE TENDER LAND - Martin
Corigliano: GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES - Figaro
Gounod: ROMEO ET JULIETTE - Romeo*
: MIREILLE - Vincent
Mascagni: L'AMICO FRITZ - Fritz*
Menotti: AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS - Gaspar
: THE CONSUL - Nika Magadoff (magician)
Halevy: LA JUIVE - Leopold
Meyerbeer: LES HUGEUNOTS - Raoul de Nangis*
Delibes: LAKME - Gerald
Verdi: FALSTAFF - Fenton
Verdi: RIGOLETTO - Duca di Mantova*
Verdi: MACBETH - Macduff
Verdi: LUISA MILLER - Rodolfo*
Verdi: OTELLO - Cassio
*These should be considered the "heavy" end of your repertoire spectrum,
based on your self-description
KM
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NEIL SHICOFF, TENORE SUPREMO
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html
My Own Website
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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+ I sing hymns with my spirit, +
+ but I also sing hymns with my mind. +
+ - 1 Corinthians 14:15 +
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