Day: June 10, 2011

Front facade of Houghton Library

Something I sang, that I don’t sing any more

[Thanks to Andrea Cawelti, Ward Project Music Cataloger, for contributing this post.] Gilbert Duprez was a superstar in the Bel Canto age of opera. The first tenor to sing a high C in chest voice, his darker, stentorian vocal technique ushered in the sound we now associate with dramatic tenor roles, and set in motion…