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I wouldn't suggest giving "Lass" to a tenor - if only because it is virtually
ALWAYS sung by women, and has thus come to be considered a "girl's song" in
the minds of 99% of people who are familiar with it.
How about one of these?:
"O Colombina, il tenero fido Arlecchin" from Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci -
Luigi Alva - O Colombina, il tenero fido Arlecchin "I Pagliacci" - YouTube
Mozart: "Un'aura un amorosa", from Così fan tutte -
Topi Lehtipuu: Un'aura amorosa (Così fan tutte/Mozart) - YouTube
Mozart: "Dalla sua pace", from Don Giovanni -
Luigi Alva - Don Giovanni - Dalla sua pace - YouTube
Lully: "Bois épais", from Amadis -
Tenor TONY VILLECCO-'Bois epais'-JB Lully - YouTube
Lalo: "Vainement, ma bien aimée", from Le roi d'Ys -
Gluck: "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance", from Iphigénie en Tauride -
Yann Beuron - "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance" - Iphigénie - YouTube
Gluck: "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice", from Orphée et Eurydice (the Paris version) -
Orphée 1774 J'ai perdu mon Eurydice - YouTube
Bizet: "À la voix d'un amant fidèle", from La jolie fille de Perth -
Roberto Alagna - Bizet - " à la voix d'un amant fidele" La jolie Fille de Perth, Acte II - YouTube
Weill: "Lonely House", from Street Scene -
John Viscardi- "Lonely House" Street Scene - YouTube
Gershwin: "There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York", from Porgy and
Bess - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - There's a boat dat's leaving soon for New York (Damon Evans) - YouTube
Menotti: "This is my box", from Amahl and the Night Visitors -
Corey Trahan sings "This is my box" - YouTube
And if we're going to allow that Handel's secular oratorio Semele is really an
opera, then so is his Acis and Galatea - so why not "Would you gain the tender
creature?" - Handel - Would you gain the tender creature - YouTube
ALWAYS sung by women, and has thus come to be considered a "girl's song" in
the minds of 99% of people who are familiar with it.
How about one of these?:
"O Colombina, il tenero fido Arlecchin" from Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci -
Luigi Alva - O Colombina, il tenero fido Arlecchin "I Pagliacci" - YouTube
Mozart: "Un'aura un amorosa", from Così fan tutte -
Topi Lehtipuu: Un'aura amorosa (Così fan tutte/Mozart) - YouTube
Mozart: "Dalla sua pace", from Don Giovanni -
Luigi Alva - Don Giovanni - Dalla sua pace - YouTube
Lully: "Bois épais", from Amadis -
Tenor TONY VILLECCO-'Bois epais'-JB Lully - YouTube
Lalo: "Vainement, ma bien aimée", from Le roi d'Ys -
Gluck: "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance", from Iphigénie en Tauride -
Yann Beuron - "Unis dès la plus tendre enfance" - Iphigénie - YouTube
Gluck: "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice", from Orphée et Eurydice (the Paris version) -
Orphée 1774 J'ai perdu mon Eurydice - YouTube
Bizet: "À la voix d'un amant fidèle", from La jolie fille de Perth -
Roberto Alagna - Bizet - " à la voix d'un amant fidele" La jolie Fille de Perth, Acte II - YouTube
Weill: "Lonely House", from Street Scene -
John Viscardi- "Lonely House" Street Scene - YouTube
Gershwin: "There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York", from Porgy and
Bess - Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - There's a boat dat's leaving soon for New York (Damon Evans) - YouTube
Menotti: "This is my box", from Amahl and the Night Visitors -
Corey Trahan sings "This is my box" - YouTube
And if we're going to allow that Handel's secular oratorio Semele is really an
opera, then so is his Acis and Galatea - so why not "Would you gain the tender
creature?" - Handel - Would you gain the tender creature - YouTube
Suki Jantzen wrote:
>>Hi! I have a student at the University and he is a lyric tenor, ready for
>>his first opera aria. Now, I have about 3 million arias running around in
>>my head and I can't decide on one for his first.<<
>>Hi! I have a student at the University and he is a lyric tenor, ready for
>>his first opera aria. Now, I have about 3 million arias running around in
>>my head and I can't decide on one for his first.<<