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Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors - History and Technique (Paperback)
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Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors - History and Technique (Paperback)
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Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the
first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an
international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been
the era of the castrati, with tenors and basses relegated to
character and supporting roles in the operas of their time. Rubini
stood apart because he not only matched the castrati in coloratura
and pathos, but he also had an extraordinarily high voice. With
Rubini's rise, and in his wake, several tenors came to sing roles
written specifically for them by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and
many other lesser-known bel canto composers. Signaling the end of
the dominance of castrati on stage, this period would last some
forty years until the advent of grand opera, Wagner, and Verdi and
the appearance of the first so-called High C from the chest by
Gilbert-Louis Duprez in 1837. Since then, the accepted tenor sound
has followed the tradition epitomized by Enrico Caruso and, in our
own era, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo. Many composers,
conductors, and performers would come to regard bel canto dramatic
operas as decorative and vapid until Maria Callas and Tulio Serafin
demonstrated the heights this genre of opera could reach. However,
opera directors and opera performers of late who have expressed an
interest in reviving selected masterpieces from the bel canto
tradition have found themselves confronted with the problem of
locating tenors versed in the vocal techniques necessary to carry
the high tessituras. In Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto
Tenors: History and Technique, Dan H. Marek explores the
extraordinary life of Rubini in order to frame this special period
in the history of opera and connect the technique of the castrati
who were among Rubini's instructors. Drawing on the work of Berton
Coffin, Marek offers long-sought answers to the challenges
presented by high tessitura of bel canto operas for tenors. To
further assist working singers, Giovanni Battista Rubini and the
Bel Canto Tenors includes over sixty pages of exercises written by
Rubini himself before 1840, which Marek, for the first time ever,
has adapted to acoustical phonetics. Professional singers, teachers
and their students, vocal coaches, and opera conductors will find
this work indispensable as the only English-language work on high
tessitura for tenor and soprano singing.
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