Twenty "Rarer" Tenors

Published: Nov. 11, 2008, 4:20 a.m.

Twenty Tenors who may not be as well-known as others, but who nevertheless sang beautifully and had major careers, mostly in the earlier part of the 20th century:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Contents as follows:

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1.Silvano Isalberti \xa0"Stelle d'oro" (Denza)
2.Carlo Dani\xa0\xa0 "Le Reve"\xa0 (Manon)
3.Giulio Crimi\xa0 "O mio picciolo tavolo" (Zaza)
4.Carlos Mejia\xa0 "Ecco ridente"\xa0\xa0 (Barbiere)
5.Wilhelm Herold\xa0\xa0 Fra Diavolo Aria\xa0 (Auber)
6.Bjorn Talen\xa0\xa0\xa0 Barber of Bagdad aria\xa0 (Cornelius)
7.Carl Martin Oehmann\xa0 "Prize Song" (Meistersinger)

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\xa08.Karl Jorn\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 "Ah quel plaisir"\xa0 (La Dame Blanche)
\xa09.Karel Burlan (in photo)\xa0 "My colleague Caruso" (Burlan)
10.Stanislaw Gruszczynski\xa0\xa0"Eternamente"\xa0 (Mascheroni)
11.Petra Raitscheff\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 "E canto il grillo"
12.Ignacy Dygas\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Aria from "Haunting Manor"\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0
13\xa0Giuseppe Krismer\xa0\xa0\xa0Damnation of Faust Aria (Berlioz)\xa0
14.Tadeusz Liliwa\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Aria from "Halka" (Moniusko)
15.Andrei Markovitch Labinski\xa0\xa0\xa0 Dubrovsky Song
16.David Juzhin\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Le Prophete aria\xa0 (Meyerbeer)
17.Alexander Bogdanovich\xa0\xa0 "Love is a delightful dream (Bleichman)
18.Alexander Davydov\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 "Leave me"\xa0 (Davydov)
19.Modest Menzinsky\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 "Barcarolle"
20.Ivan Erschov\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 Tannhauser Act One Aria\xa0 (Wagner)

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\xa0 (If you can spell every name without looking, I will give you a gift of
\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 all my Sarah Brightman CD's.)

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