Dramatic Tenor student repertoire

If it's just repertoire for vocal teaching, with piano - vs. arias he'd ever consider auditioning with to sing with full orchestra when his voice is fully developed - I'd forget all about "fach" and focus on finding arias that will work on
what his voice needs most, be it making the middle register bloom (resonance and overtones), upper extension, breath management, falsetto mix, etc.


Obviously, there are extremes to which you wont' go - you're not going give a developing dramatic arias for haute-contre and tenorino - but lyric tenor and and a few spinto arias will probably get you want you need. Think along the lines of:


Verdi: "Parmi veder le lagrime" -
Guido Volpi - Ella mi fu rapita...Parmi veder le lagrime - YouTube
- from Rigoletto

Verdi: "De' miei bollenti spiriti" -
William McAlpine "De miei bollenti spiriti" - YouTube
- from La Traviata (for upper extension work)


Verdi: "Ah, la paterna mano" -
Placido Domingo - Macbeth - Ah, la paterna mano - YouTube
- from Macbeth


Puccini: "Recondita armonia" -
Neil Shicoff "Recondita armonia" Tosca - YouTube
- from Tosca


Bizet: "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée" -
Franco Corelli-La fleur que tu m'avais jetee (Flower Song) - YouTube
- from Carmen


Mozart: "Fuor del mar" -
Mozart-Idomeneo-"Fuor del mar"-Croft- Minkowski-Les Musiciens du Louvre - YouTube
- from Idomeneo (for work on agility and lightness - which all singers SHOULD have, at least to some extent, regardless of fach)


Britten: Tarquinius does not wait -
5. Tarquinius does not wait - John Mark Ainsley (The Rape of Lucretia) - YouTube
- from The Rape of Lucretia


Von Weber: Durch die Wälder -
Peter Anders-Durch die Wälder, durch die Auen - YouTube
- from Der Freischütz

Tchaikovsky: "Kuda, kuda" -
Vladimir Atlantov - Eugene Onegin - Kuda Kuda - YouTube
- from Eugene Onegin