Tuesday, January 1, 2019

The Ten Tenors: Larger Than Life (2004), 6

1h | Music | TV Movie July 2004
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Director: Mark FitzGerald

Per the dvd artwork, the ten (Australian?) tenors in this concert are:
Craig Atkinson, Shannon Brown, Drew Graham, Craig Hendry, David Kidd, Liam McLachlan, Stewart Morris, Dominic Smith, Tod Strike, Jason Turnbull. (Note: the 10 Tenors website lists a completely different current cast.)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1493882/

Clearly cashing in on the 3 Tenors (Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti) series of concerts. This is not necessarily their first dvd, and definitely not their first album, but I got this in a bundle with something else I wanted.

Their sound is somewhere between a boy band (dressed in matching black 3-piece suits) and a choir.

No songs listed in the Soundtracks, but 11 in the film. Here's the track listing (copied from bn, verified on the chapter menu):
1. Funiculi Funiculà [4:39]
2. Italian Medley: Torna Surriento/La Danza/Core 'Ngrato/Volare [7:17]
3. Thunder Point [4:31]
4. Nessun Dorma [3:27]
5. Por una Cabeza [3:03]
6. Opera Medley: La Donna È Mobile (Rigoletto)/Che Gelida Manina (La Boheme)/Va Pensiero (Nabucco)/Largo al Factotum (The Barber of Seville) [15:05]
7. Conquest of Paradise [3:54]
8. Stonde [3:38]
9. Water/Va Pensiero [4:04]
10. Australian Medley: Botany Bay/Moreton Bay/Waltzing Matilda [6:47]
11. Rawhide [3:13]

This is only an hour, and I was ready for it to be done well before the end. Partially to check the track list, but also because their voices are not as operatic as I was expecting. They sing Nessun Dorma and other arias, but this is not the way I want to hear such works. I'd even prefer to hear Frankie Laine sing Rawhide.

Rated (not enough votes yet)

distr. PBS, dir. FitzGerald; 6