| The question is how do we go about to find | | | | and according to GT, there are two pre-Caruso |
| websites dealing in details with operatic tenors | | | | tenors: Giovanni Apostolou and Fernando Valero. |
| from nowadays to as far back as the 19/18th | | | | Then comes a list of post-Caruso tenors: Alcaide, |
| centuries. | | | | Cortis, Davidov, Gigli, Labinsky, Marini, Martinelli, |
| If you use the Google Keyword Tool with | | | | Merli, Rosvænge, Schipa, von Pataky, Zanelli. The |
| Historical, Tenors as Keywords, you find the | | | | list of 20th century tenors lists names like |
| following: | | | | Björling, Lugo, Schmidt, Kiepura and so on. Why |
| The most popular keywords, connected with | | | | Rosvaenge and Schipa are post-Caruso tenors |
| operatic tenors, are: Tenor ahead of Tenors with | | | | and not Lugo and Björling will probably remain |
| different entries for 3 Tenors, 4 Tenors and so | | | | the secret of the prior Editor. |
| on. If you goggle tenor or tenors, you do not get | | | | The GT staff loves to appropriate information |
| any meaningful results. the same thing happens | | | | and to present it on their website without |
| with a Yahoo Search using the same keywords. It | | | | acknowledgment. A funny case is the one of the |
| is also the same thing with In each case we are | | | | Valero discography, which was copied entirely |
| looking at, we will limit our self to the first page of | | | | from Historical Tenors (HT) - including one |
| the search results. | | | | mistake. After the prior Editor was made aware |
| Now let choose the keyword Tenori, Yahoo | | | | of the missing acknowledgment and of the |
| Search, Google and yield one possible interesting | | | | unspecified error by the owner of HT, GT now |
| site Grandi Tenori. | | | | mentions the source - but the mistake is still |
| Now using the keywords Historical Tenors, we | | | | there. Another case is the biography of Achille |
| get following results: | | | | Braschi which is, according to GT, still "under |
| Google: At the top of the list there is an | | | | construction". There are, however, a few |
| interesting site Historical Tenors, strangely enough | | | | sentences about this tenor, of which every bit is |
| the site link is not direct but through other sites | | | | taken from another article about Achille Braschi. |
| on the first page of the search results. In the | | | | On the positive side, the biographies written by |
| search list, there is an entry for Golden Music | | | | Juan Dzazopulos are excellent. Mr. Dzazapulos also |
| Memories of Yesteryear and finally the Google | | | | publishes on the other site HT. |
| search first page ends up for another linkage to | | | | Now the article section is practically dead and that |
| the Historical Tenors site, even including one | | | | the author and editor of the audio of the month |
| through Geocities, now a defunct service. | | | | section seems to be rather tired of writing for |
| Yahoo Search: At the top again Historical Tenors | | | | GT, as the audio of the month has completely |
| but through another site, Grandi Tenori is on | | | | stopped - and that the forum, full of American |
| second place, and a possible new comer Greatest | | | | opera fans and amateur singers, is the only |
| Tenors With Frank E. Dee. The first page of the | | | | reason for why GT is still online. |
| search results also includes link to Flute related | | | | Now GT has a new editor who promises a new |
| pages. | | | | look and new sections, but nothing has happened |
| Bing.com: It provides a direct link to Historical | | | | yet. |
| Tenors on the first position, Grandi Tenori is on | | | | Now let look at the other sit HT. The HT website |
| the third place, while Italian Tenors. | Italy is on | | | | is the No. 1 tenor site on the internet. When one |
| second place and Golden Music Memories of | | | | lands on the index page, we find a very well |
| Yesteryear is at the bottom of the page, the | | | | organized page with a navigation bar at the top |
| other results not being really relevant. | | | | showing: |
| Let now examine those different possible sites: | | | | New (site update), Tenors' index, sound index, |
| Golden Music Memories of Yesteryear/Greatest | | | | tenors' operas, tenors' vital records, non-tenor |
| Tenors With Frank E. Dee is the same site that | | | | zone, articles, reviews and recollections, read/send |
| provides the same run of the mill information on | | | | comments, credits/thanks, cartoons, pearls of |
| tenors that you can find somewhere else while | | | | GT, links |
| providing a forum for mainly unsophisticated users. | | | | New is a link to a page displaying the latest |
| This is not what we are looking for. | | | | updates of the site with corresponding links. There |
| Italian Tenors. | Italy lists ten tenors that are also | | | | you have also a link to an older updates page in |
| run of the mill information and nothing new. We | | | | case you missed the latest updates. |
| can safely exclude that site as a rehash of the | | | | Tenors' index shows a wide variety of indexes of |
| same information. | | | | singers divided in categories mostly in linguistic |
| Grandi Tenori looks promising. It states in his | | | | origins (Italian, Spanish/Portuguese, English. Asian, |
| introduction: | | | | Eastern European and so on) with special |
| Grandi is an "E-Library" with biographies and | | | | categories such tenors could have recorded but |
| articles on tenors, historical and contemporary, | | | | did not, tenors that do nothing for the site etc |
| extended with rich analysis of renditions of arias, | | | | Sound index gives you all the sung material on the |
| news on promising tenors and debates on tenors | | | | site by composer, opera and singer. |
| vocal qualities, stage presence and interpretation. | | | | Tenors' operas give cast listings some as far back |
| The site also includes monthly reviews on opera | | | | as the 19th century for operas such Guillaume |
| on stage, on CD or on DVD, spectacular photos | | | | Tell, Il Trovatore etc |
| and featured singers of exceptional stature. | | | | Tenors' vital records give tenors birth and death |
| Grandi (GT for short from now on) is also a | | | | dates |
| meeting place for opera lovers, be it mere | | | | Non tenor-zone has interesting materials on non |
| aficionados or singers, professional as well as | | | | tenors, especially recommended a targeted |
| young and aspiring. One of the aims with the site | | | | comparison for the bass duet in Don Carlo. |
| is precisely to put aficionados of vocal art | | | | Articles are divided into two categories one on |
| together, and if possible, promote young singers | | | | singing by the great Baritone Joseph Shore and |
| and artists who otherwise lack projection. | | | | one with thought provoking articles by Daniele |
| A closer look at the site reveals a different | | | | Godor on Calleja, Pavarotti and so on. |
| matter: | | | | Many pictures of tenors, some very rare and |
| This e-library, however, comes with less than 100 | | | | unusual are shown on the sides of the index page |
| biographies of which most (exempt from the | | | | and below the navigation bar. |
| longer articles in the "feature" section) are not | | | | It has reliable biographies and discographies about |
| longer than 500 words. Many of the links to the | | | | historical and modern tenors. As to tenors, the |
| promised tenor biographies do not work. A closer | | | | site is very extensive and even superior to |
| look at the biographies unfortunately reveals the | | | | Kutsch/Riemens' cyclopedia. The site provides |
| lack of knowledge of the prior editor and his | | | | audio files of almost any tenor between De |
| assistants. Most of the biographies are not only full | | | | Reszke and Domingo for free. You can find |
| of strange comments about singing - also a lot of | | | | information on Rubini showing that he was |
| biographical information is inaccurate. | | | | probably the tenor that sang more roles on stage, |
| The rest of the site is written in exactly the | | | | close to 200 roles. In the 19th century section |
| same style. The tenor biographies are put into a | | | | you will find also information on Duprez, Nourrit, |
| weird order where everything is arranged around | | | | Abruñedo,, Fraschini and so on. The Italian and |
| Caruso: | | | | Eastern European sections are particularly filled |
| " Historical Tenors, meaning all the tenors from | | | | with information on good tenors that have been |
| the 15th century to the 1st half of the 19th | | | | forgotten with recordings, some unique. While on |
| century, including castrati; Pre-Caruso tenors | | | | the modern front, you can find Antonenko, |
| (1850-1900), Post-Caruso tenors (1900-1930) and | | | | Calleja, Villazon, Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras, |
| finally, 20th Century tenors." | | | | Annaloro, Poncet, Florez and so on. The site is |
| The prior Editor gives no reason for this choice; | | | | also filled with pictures not seen anywhere else. |
| instead, he declares that his choice was not | | | | The site is also updated and or corrected as new |
| "meant as historically correct" (sic). The first | | | | information becomes available. |
| section ("Historical tenors") has not a single entry, | | | | The site of choice is Historical Tenors. |