How about "Oreste", after tenor Oreste Kirkop who was from Malta, and who had a successful career in the 1950s; he had a repertoire of over 60 roles, and was the lead tenor at Covent Garden from '54-'58, and starred in one of the movie versions of Rudolf Friml's THE VAGABOND KING.
Orestes, of course, was the brother of Electra and Iphigenia and son of Agammemnon.
Having killed his mother - Clytaemnestra - and her second husband Aegisthus, who had murdered Agammemnon, Orestes was tried, acquited, got his act together psychologically, and went on to become king of Agammemnon's rather large kingdom.
The mythological Orestes was further immortalized by both Euripides and by Richard Strauss, in his opera ELEKTRA, in which Oreste is a bass. So you have your vocal basses covered - Oreste Kirkop being a tenor, and Strauss's Oreste being a bass.
A name with operatic, mythological, and Maltese connections: what more could any puppy ask for?
Karen Mercedes ............................ NEIL SHICOFF, TENORE SUPREMO http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html
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