#King of Tenors

[opera-ghosts]

1922: Enrico Caruso's wife Dorothy and daughter Gloria look at first copy of biography of Caruso while seated in a park in New York City, NY/ Gloria kisses picture of her father in book / Dorothy's hand holds book open at picture of Caruso / Gloria looks at book, hugs it to herself / 1921: crowds and horse-drawn hearse stand in front of the Church of San Francesco di Paola, site of Caruso's funeral / pallbearers put Caruso's coffin into hearse / robed people in funeral procession / glass-encased hearse with coffin inside passes by as people walk with it / from Greatest Headlines of the Century series / Note: [exact dates not known]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Lecture tips: Be naked and wet for the most convincing rhetoric.

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[ikjun]

Kim Joo-Taek (Julian Kim) performing "Dust and Ashes" as promotion for SHOWNOTE's production of Natasha, Pierre And The Great Comet of 1812

[jazzdailyblog]

Ben Webster: The Warm Sound of the Tenor Saxophone

Introduction: Ben Webster, a great jazz tenor saxophonist recognized for his rich, warm tone and soulful playing style, was born one hundred and fifteen years ago today, March 27, 1909, in Kansas City, Missouri. During his five-decade career, he established himself as one of jazz’s most famous and influential saxophonists. Early Life and Musical Beginnings: Benjamin Francis Webster was raised…

[foldingfittedsheets]

Man. Season 3 of His Dark Materials is letting me down in a big way.

[fortjester]

I can't say for sure, but being an alto and mostly only able to sing male roles from musicals as a child definitely at least contributed to whatever fucky gender identity I'm wrestling with in present day

[rougetveit]

sorry got busy w work and this blog died again but will be revived when i see aaron tveit sweeney todd (sweeron? aaroney?) in may exactly 2 years from the day i saw him in MR for the first time and all the haters can be mad about it. yeah he's King Tenor and he will steal any role he likes from baritones he is simply permitted by god to do that for any 12 week duration he chooses. he played traditionally baritone/baritenor enjolras with his high lyric light angelic tenor and defined a generation let him cook okay

[iloverace]

I saw a thing that said Jeremy Jordan should be Apollo in PJO

I need this so badly you don’t even know.

[widevibratobitch]

cannot get this out of my head and i dont mind tbqh

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Tenor Enrico Caruso (1873 - 1921) -- arguably the single most famous and beloved operatic tenor of all time -- is born in Naples, Italy. Over the span of a highly-celebrated 25 year professional career, Caruso sang to great acclaim at major opera houses all across Europe and the Americas, and appeared in a wide array of roles drawn from the Italian and French operatic repertoire. He sang more than 850 times with the New York Metropolitan Opera alone (both at the Met and on tour). One of the first major singing talents to be commercially recorded, Caruso released approximately 250 commercial recordings between 1902 and 1920 -- earning millions of dollars, and becoming the first true musical superstar of the modern recording era, in the process. Caruso also appeared in two (silent) motion pictures. In 1918, he played a dual role in "My Cousin" for Paramount Pictures, which included a sequence depicting him on stage performing one of his most notable roles: Canio the clown, who sings the famous aria "Vesti la giubba" from Ruggero Leoncavallo's (1857 - 1919) hit opera, "Pagliacci" (1892). The following year, Caruso also played a character called Cosmo in "The Splendid Romance." Producer Jesse Lasky paid Caruso $100,000 each to appear in these two efforts -- but "My Cousin" flopped at the box office, and "The Splendid Romance" was apparently never even released, and is now considered to be lost. When Caruso died suddenly of peritonitis at the age of just 48, it was a cause for international mourning. The King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III (1869 - 1947), opened the Royal Basilica of the Church of San Francesco di Paola for Caruso's funeral, which was attended by tens of thousands of people. Caruso's embalmed body was then preserved in a glass sarcophagus at Del Pianto Cemetery in Naples and displayed for nearly a decade so that mourners could continue to come and pay their respects... PICTURED: One of the many lovely swiftly-executed caricatures that Caruso (also a talented visual artist) accomplished over the years. This example is a small and rather mischievous-looking self-portrait, which he signed and dated to London in 1901.

[fairiesandstories]

Consuming Ana Huang’s Kings of Sin series was not something I had on my 2024 bingo card. But I’m also a slut for Italian men so is it really a surprise that I fell face first into this series

[girlscarpia]

I would watch siegfried if this was siegfried

not but imagine how fucking funny would it be. missed opportunity

[blujayonthewing]

every musical with a Big and/or A Bit Silly number performed by a bombastic tenor is a personal gift for me specifically

[hziyechdaily]

"Alonso pays the price for his carelessness as Ziyech’s free-kick is whipped towards Arrizabalaga’s far post with such precision that it hits the bar before going into the back of the net by bouncing off of the Chelsea stopper’s face! A farcical way to concede a goal, and Stamford Bridge falls into silence!"

[racingtoaredlight]

THE SONG OF THE MACHINE GORILLA

I don’t speak Italian but I am able to work out this song is about a machine gorilla. Probably (likely) inspired by the classic 1967 film, King Kong Escapes.

It is heartening to know that Mechani-Kong has inspired one of the Three Tenors. After hearing this song about a gigantic robotic gorilla I have adjusted my rankings of the tenors to put Bocelli on top. See you in gorilla hell, Pavarotti.

[rippingoffkingarthur]

Pict of Dr. Cool J Dog from ROKA #351...

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