Best Opera Singer/Tenor?

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  1.  Exarch said: November 03, 2010 09:11 AM

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    hands down, Andrea Bocelli:






    yeah, that's the good stuff, (he's blind as well)
     

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    ♔Jean-Luc Picard♔ said: November 03, 2010 09:16 AM

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    Pavarotti is my all time favorite. Bocelli is indeed wonderful, but Pavarotti is simply above the rest in my book.

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  3. Exarch said: November 03, 2010 09:21 AM

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    well of course, pavarotti is a legend all the more so now that he's gone
    guess i shoulda gone to his concert when he was down in sydney, ah wellz.
     

  4. iudas said: November 03, 2010 11:13 AM

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    Bocelli is a fake.

    Alfredo Kraus is my favourite tenor.

    Pavarotti was indeed very good, and so were Placido Domingo and Nicolai Gedda, to name a few. Caruso must've been incredible to hear, too bad the recordings we have are so primitive.

    Outside the tenor range, I'd like to mention the great bass Cesare Siepi.
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    conon394 said: November 03, 2010 12:18 PM

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    Personally of recent tenors I vote for Domingo over Pavarotti - but is this not sort of hostage to modern recording its impossible to really get a feel for someone like Caruso (unless you heard him as a kid) and before him generations lost before recording...
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    abbews said: November 03, 2010 04:22 PM

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    Jussi Björling.
     

  7. Exarch said: November 04, 2010 07:18 AM

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    elaine paige is pretty good as well