heldentenor
See also: Heldentenor
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From German Heldentenor. Literally, “hero tenor”.
Noun
[edit]heldentenor (plural heldentenors)
- A singer with a deep, strong voice that spans the range between baritone and tenor
- 1988 October 21, George Grass, “WagnerVision”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- The absence of the Lyric's usual work-horse heldentenor William Johns (who, according to Lyric, dropped out of the show--quite uncharacteristically--due to illness) was sadly evident here.
- 2004, Joe Queenan, True Believers, page 158:
- Over the course of his lifetime, he will be forced to endure ... precocious heldentenors [.]