The tenor sax is a jazz instrument. The paradigmatic jazz instrument, if I may thrown in a $50 word. How many tenor sax sonatas or concertos can you think of that feature the tenor as a solo, or even ...

Verdi’s “Luisa Miller” contains one of Italian opera’s greatest tenor arias, a heart-wrenching moment of loss and betrayal in the second act, when the hero is deceived into believing that his beloved ...

Prominent Italian producer Pietro Valsecchi (“Quo Vado”) is developing a high-end Luciano Pavarotti biopic for which he has secured a consulting agreement with Nicoletta Mantovani, the second wife of ...

Angel Blue and Jonathan Tetelman in ‘La Rondine.’ Karen Almond/Met Opera Of today’s pride of tenors, Jonathan Tetelman has recently been the subject of great media attention. Born in Chile, adopted by ...

Last Sunday's column was already written -- but not published -- when word came of the death of Luciano Pavarotti. I almost scrapped it to write something about Pavarotti, but decided to wait a week.

Spanish conductor David Gimenez Carreras put his mark on this drama-drenched, passion-permeated concert from the very first note. Starting concerts of short operatic extracts with the Overture to ...

Many people believe that Italy is the only country that can give birth to great tenors, such as Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, and Luciano Pavarotti. However, Richard Tucker, who was born in Brooklyn ...

Getting the world’s three greatest tenors—Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras—to risk their reputations and submerge their famous egos by appearing on the same stage seemed ...

I saw Pavarotti sing "Pagliacci" at Carnegie Hall 15 years ago and it was pretty good. The great man was a good 100 pounds over his fighting weight and he perspired heavily, but when it came time for ...

ROME — Giuseppe Di Stefano, one of the greatest tenors of the 20th century and a celebrated singing partner of soprano Maria Callas, died Monday, his wife said. He was 86. Di Stefano died at home in ...