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The most thrilling, handsomely heroic, devastatingly tragic arias ever written! Tenors are the show-ponies of the operatic stage, the tall, dark and handsome playboys who every woman falls in love with at first sight, and every baritone sees, quite rightly, as a rival for love, success and all the best tunes. Everyone wants to be a tenor, so their clarion-call voices can ring out over the surging orchestra, and newspaper headlines can dub them 'King of the high Cs'. And yet they have a weakness, for the women they revere are either consumptive, or murderous, or doomed to some premature and deeply pathetic end, often in the key of E major. But then, with a voice that can thrill like no other, there's always another role beckoning, and always another dazzling heroine with whom you'll be singing love-duets within five minutes of first meeting. Who wouldn't want to be a tenor! Featuring internationally renowned tenors including Rosario La Spina, Luciano Pavarotti, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Juan Diego Florez, Mario del Monaco, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras, Jonas Kaufmann and more.