The 5 Greatest Tenors of All Time

A list of my five favorite tenors including fun facts and performance clips!

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[daviddecarlo]

A list without Bjorling and Tucker is incomplete in my opinion.

[howiejohnsonm.b.e]

Sorry mate, without Bjorling you cannot be taken seriously!!!

[TheCarnivalguy]

Jussi Bjorling is the only tenor that came close to having a Stradivarius in his throat. He was phenomenal.

[joserosa]

And Mario DelMonaco? Not on this list? How about Jussi Bjorling?

[clairebeaumont]

What about Jussi Bjorling, the Swedish tenor? Best tenor in my opinion. The famous duet from the Pearl Fishers he sang with Robert Merrill from America was breathtakingly

[suffes]

A top 5 list without Björling is like a car without an engine. Björling was considered the leading tenor for a period called the Golden era of tenors. The end of the 30's to a bit into the 60's. Here you will find most of the great classical tenors.

[andrewblackmore]

My list would have to include Jussi Björling.

[MarioHernandez-qrvx]

And: DI STEFANO, BJOERLING, GIGLI, KRAUS, SCHIPA, MELCHIOR, BONISOLLI, VINAY, VICKERS AND MANY OTHERS?

[carriagemaker]

Sorry, you just missed the biggest of them all - Jussi Bjorling!

[pandelilazaridi]

JUSSI BJORLING SHOULD BE IN THAT LIST! ONE OF THE FREATEST VOICES AND ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING MUSICIANS AND THEREFORE FOM THE BEST SINGERS EVER PAST THROUGH LIFE AND TALKING ABOUT TECHNOLOGY OF THE SOUND BEEN SO FAR FAR BEHIND THEN! HE WAS A TRUE "T R O V A T O R E" ! (Trovador) "ONE OF A KIND" HE HAD THE "ITALIAN HEART"

[tonygomes]

JUSSI BJÖRLING IS APART FROM ALL THE OTHER GREATEST TENORS...HE REACHED HEIGHTS IN VOICE RICHNESS, CONTROL, AND EMOTION IMPARTING QUALITY, THAT STANDS APART AND ABOVE ALL OTHER TENORS; HE IS NOT ONE MORE TENOR MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTANDING THIS...

[beatsandwaves]

Shame on you not to have added Jussi Bjorling, of whom, when Pavarotti was asked what he thought about him, he replayed: 'I am only human'

[sharonholdren]

I am thrilled to hear Fritz Wonderlich was second on your list. He is first on mine. When I was a kid in the 50s we had an album of hard plastic 78s of his. When he died my mother held it and wept. It wasn't until the advent of the Internet I was able to hear again that beloved voice and truly appreciate what he meant to my parents.

[peterschmitz]

meine liste der besten Caruso, Aureliano Pertile, Tito schippat.jussi Björling and Richard Tucker

[selini]

The extremely short life of Fritz Wunderlich and his impact on today’s tenors who claim his technique as their ideal is still amazing

[dot]

My neighbor is a tenor, he sounds mostly like a strangled cat.
A shame Wunderlich died so very young. He would have been the best. My favorite for sure.

[gbbyron]

You forgot Jussi Biorling. That's too bad!

[mrm.]

...but was it Jussi Björling in the presentation?

[johnholmes]

gigli and bjorling surely belong on the list

[Elena-sjjw]

Franco Corelli - no doubt the best in dramatic Italian opera!