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We need a hero!: Heldentenors from Wagner's time to the present-- ...
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Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold - 1989 - 450 pages - Snippet view

Thus, this last Wagner "Held" remains a supreme dramatic challenge for the tenor; in a little under two and one-half ... performed by a Heldentenor, and anyone who has ever heard Wolfgang Windgassen, Set Svanholm, Siegfried Jerusalem, ...

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Music magazine: Volumes 10-11; Volumes 10-11
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1987 - Snippet view

Criticism of heroic singing from Wagner's nemesis, Eduard Hanslick, to the New York Times' Donal Henahan has sometimes ... Other post-war Heldentenors have met similar fates: Jess Thomas, Rend Kollo and Siegfried Jerusalem have all been ...

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The New York Times biographical service: Volume 4; Volume 4
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1973 - Snippet view

It was Melchior who, season in and season out, could be depended upon to thrill audiences in the most demanding tenor roles of the literature — the "Heldentenor" roles of "Siegfried" and Tristan especially. Wagner asks his singers to blast ...

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Scandinavian review: Volume 88, Issues 1-2; Volume 88, Issues 1-2
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American-Scandinavian Foundation, American-Scandinavian Foundation - 2000 - Snippet view

Stig Andersen, A Heroic Tenor Who Aims for the Nuances by Matthew Gurewitsch One last question for Stig Andersen (the G is ... physical match for Wagner's "Siegfried", the role that takes him to the Metropolitan Opera for his house debut .

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Opera: Volume 55, Issues 1-6
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George Henry Hubert Lascelles Harewood (Earl of) - 2004 - Snippet view
Replacing the indisposed Siegfried Jerusalem, Allan Glassman sang strongly as Herod, rather pallidly seconded by Larissa Diadkova as Herodias. Matthew Polenzani sounded genuinely heroic as Narraboth. Valery Gergiev, the Russian stranger ...

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Newsweek: Volume 78, Issues 18-26
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Jean Strouse - 1971 - Snippet view
Staging should be kept to the minimum dictated by the vast Wagner ego. Even in the epic of "Tristan und Isolde," which ... Stamina: "It's not only the heroic voice but the heroic character that defines heldentenor for me," says Thomas.

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The virtuosi: classical music's legendary performers from Paganini ...
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Harold C. Schonberg, Harold C. Schonberg - 1988 - 509 pages - Snippet view
He once described the Heldentenor — heroic tenor — as a singer with a voice "a little darker-colored than the ordinary ... dramatic or heroic Wagner tenor, the so-called Schwerheld [heavy hero] — Siegfried, Tristan and Tannhauser.

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Country life: Volume 144
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1968 - Snippet view
THE TWILIGHT OF "THE RING' KARL-JOSEF HERING AS SIEGFRIED AND AMY SHUARD AS BRUNNHII DF IN WAGNER'S SIEGFRIED AT COVENT GARDEN a ... Karl-Josef Hering is undoubtedly exactly the kind of Heldentenor required for the part of Siegfried.

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Russian dramatic theory from Pushkin to the Symbolists: an anthology
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Laurence Senelick - 1981 - 336 pages - Snippet view

"Siegfried", traditionally played

by a Heldentenor with boar-spear,

hunting horn and bear-pelt,

is the noble if obtuse

hero of Wagner's Siegfried

(1876) and Gotterdammerung (1876).

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Zarathustra, an avatar of Nietzsche's Superman [Also ...

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Gramophone: Volume 80, Issues 962-966; Volume 80, Issues 962-966
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2003 - Snippet view
WAGNER AS WAGNER WOULD HAVE RECOGNISED IT - A FLAWED BUT TRADITIONAL APPROACH WITH MANY ADMIRERS ... Siegfried Jerusalem, though, eclipses Boulez's inadequate Manfred Jung. More lyrical and vocally more heroic, he is a finer musician, ...

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