The Tristan test From: Opera News | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright Metropolitan Opera Guild, Incorporated Dec 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Why does Wagner's masterpiece terrify heroic tenors?

When we meet Beethovens Flo- restan in his dungeon, he cries out "God, what darkness here!" The line starts on high G: yearning and the upper middle of the tenor voice are natural soulmates in Romantic opera. Tamino, midway through his journey, asks, "0 eternal night, when will you vanish?" in a similar range. He longs for the dawn of his union with Pamina as Florestan long for his beloved Leonore, and both proceed to imagine or anticipate reunion, mounting by degrees - E G, A, in Flo-` restan's case touching B-flat.

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