How about "Oreste", after tenor Oreste Kirkop who was from Malta, and who
had a successful career in the 1950s; he had a repertoire of over
60 roles, and was the lead tenor at Covent Garden from '54-'58, and
starred in one of the movie versions of Rudolf Friml's THE VAGABOND KING.
Orestes, of course, was the brother of Electra and Iphigenia and son of
Agammemnon.
Having killed his mother - Clytaemnestra - and her second husband
Aegisthus, who had murdered Agammemnon, Orestes was tried, acquited, got
his act together psychologically, and went on to become king of
Agammemnon's rather large kingdom.
The mythological Orestes was further immortalized by both Euripides and by
Richard Strauss, in his opera ELEKTRA, in which Oreste is a bass. So you
have your vocal basses covered - Oreste Kirkop being a tenor, and
Strauss's Oreste being a bass.
A name with operatic, mythological, and Maltese connections: what more
could any puppy ask for?
Karen Mercedes
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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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