The gentle timbre in the tenor voice, an approach to the voices of Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and Beniamino Gigli

Abstract

This study is going to debate the gentle timbre in the tenor voice in the beginning of the XX century. The gentle timbre is a characteristic in the tenor voice that is intended to be produced. This article will address the technical components of the gentle timbre in the tenor voice and study, as examples, Lauri-Volpi and Gigli’s voices. Caruso, who was also a tenor star of this epoch, brought a completely different approach to the tenor voice, that evolved in a new tendency of singing, different from the gentle timbre approach.