WORLD'S BEST TENORS
“British tenors are the best in the world/’ declared Sir Thomas Beecham recently. Following that assertion the Daily Mail critic compiles the following list of the world’s best: Italy: Beniamino Gigli, Lauri Volpi, Aureiiano Pertile, Martinelli. United States: Mario Chamiee, Charles Hackett. France: Paul Franz. Belgium: Fernand Ansseau. Denmark: Lauritz Melchior Greece: Ulysses Lappas. Spain: Miguel Fleta. Poland: Kiepura. Yugoslavia: Pattiera. England: John Coates, Alfred Piccaver, Tom Burke, Walter Widdop, Frank Mullings. Scotland: Joseph Hislop. Wales: Ben Davies, Tudor Davies. Ireland: John McCormack. Russia, where the basses are incomparable, and Austria and Germany, whence come most of the finest women singers of the day, seem not to be the home of the tenor.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 16
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116WORLD'S BEST TENORS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 126, 18 August 1927, Page 16
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