Reviews:

Reviews from Emmy nominated Verdi's Requiem production:

1.
There was one exception: Tenor Franco Tenelli, who began his career at the Tbilisi National Opera .
The auditorium acoustics, in particular, adored his sound and phrasing. Use of words was superb. Might there be a place for him next year?

By David Patrick Stearns

Inquirer Classical Music Critic

posted sept, 2009

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2.
Singing in Latin and Italian is a pleasure for
any smart singer and known to clarify the
sound, providing the singer caters slavishly to
le parole (the words).
Tenelli was the strongest of the soloists, delivering warm and lovely, resonant, tenor sounds largely due to
his impeccable diction and vocal technique.

He is a polished and well schooled and
expressive singer with an appealing quality,
well matched to the work.

His Ingemisco was beautifully rendered with perfectly tuned, legato phrases.

By Patrizia Cioffi-
(classical singer,voice teacher/coach and Artistic Director of Le voci internazionali since 1982)

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"Tenor Franco Tenelli is a poised artist.
His expressive range is exciting and daring.
With his huge, ringing sonority, Tenelli is a singer who take enormous risks, singing at the very edges of his emotive and dynamic ranges."
Colleen Johnston "Record" Kitchner

"Franco Tenelli gave his Mario Cavaradossi a voice of steely brilliance."

by Frieder Mossler, "Suddeutsche Zeitung"

"...dazzling technical and dramatic assurance."
Opera Canada

"Franco Tenelli, who performed the role of Canio, came close to matching the great Spaniard in all-important matter of intelligent interpretation."
Ed Krawchyk, "London Free Press"

"Remarkable French diction...
Opera Canada

"This tenor has a "Bolshoi" (Grand) ring and there was heart in his singing. He stuck a chord with the audience."
Arthur Kaptainis, "Montreal Gazzette"

"Il a une voix heroique...Il partait avec l'affection du public. Il chante avec une generocite, come s'il chantait pour la derniere fois."
" He has heroic voice...Public loved him. He sings with such a generosity if it were for the last time."
Craig Rutenberg, CBC

"Franco Tenelli sang with confidence and resolve, with great projection and a majestic high register.
David Abrams, "Herald-Journal" USA

"He was the evening vocal star..."
Peter Spencer, "Star-Ledger Newark"

"Franco Tenelli offered up a powerful tenor voice..."
Bill F.Faucett "Balm Beach Post"

"Tenelli has a strong voice that cut through the hall's swampy accoustics
Doug Wyatt, "Savannah Morning News"

"...pleasingly virile timber..."
C.J.Gianakaris, "Gazette" Kalamazzoo

Opera Repertoir:
Verdi:
Otello(Otello),Riccardo(Ballo in Maschera),
MacDuff(Macbeth),Duke(Rigoletto),Alfredo(La Traviata), Manrico(Il Trovatore),Radames(Aida).

Puccini:
Calaf(Turandot), Cavaradossi(Tosca), Des Grieux(Manon Lescaut),Pinkerton(Madama Butterfly), Rodolfo(La Boheme).

Bizet:
Don Jose(Carmen), Nadir(Pearl Fishers).

Tchaikovsky:
Herman "Dame Pique"
Lensky "Eugene Onegin"

Other:
Canio(I Pagliacci) Leoncavallo,
Turiddu(Cavaleria Rusticana)Mascagni
Bacchus(Ariasne auf Naxos) Strauss
Andrea Chenier(Andrea Chenier)-Giordano
Samson "Samson et Dalila" C.Saint-Saens
Forgael "Shadowy Waters" by John Plant

Concert Repertoir:
King David in "Psalmus Hungaricus" by Kodaly
Kodaly's "Te Deum"
Verdi's Requiem
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony
Liszt's Coronation Mass
Dubois' "Seven last words of Christ"
Gounod's Messe Solennelle (St.Cecilia)
Gounod's vocal cycle "Biondina"
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem
Mozart's Requiem

Companies and venues:
Air Canada Place(Toronto, All Star Gala for John Paul II available on CD and DVD) New York City Opera, Busseto Opera Festival(Italy), Place des Arts(Montreal, Canada), New Jersey State Opera,
Turkish State Opera and Ballet House, Tbilisi State Opera(Georgia), Baku State Opera(Republic of Azerbaijan), Quebec Grand Opera(Canada), McGill Opera(Montreal), Center Pierre Piladeault(Montreal), Grand Opera(Philadelphia) , Atlanta State Opera, New Orleans's Opera House, Opera Ontario, Munich Summer Festival(Germany),Opera Bergen(Norway), Opera Carolina(USA), Bob Jones Opera(S. Carolina), Pollack Center(Montreal), Ford Center for Performing Arts(Toronto),Carnegie Hall.

Awards and Honors
Winner of the Montreal International Voice Competition(1993)
David Andguladze Grant for academic excellence, Tbilisi State Concervatory.
Diploma of Excellence, M.A.Music, Summa Cum Laude.
Master's Degree in Music McGill School of Music.

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