Ingo Duckerschein <ingo_d@y...> wrote: > Completely unrelated question -- how many tenor arias actually require > the high C?
Do you mean "require" or "written"? ;-)
Rossini has quite a few written high Cs (ex. William Tell, but he didn't expect full chest voice), but most high Cs in the opera rep are "traditional" rather than notated. To get a real sense of those, you'll have to listen to a lot of recordings. Written high Cs are rare.
Is the high note in La Boheme a C or Cb? I think Stravinsky has a written high C# in Persephone (sic?). There's also that nasty high D in Orff's Carmina Burana... What are some other "rude" tenor high notes that were actually notated? Anyone?
Tako Oda
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