Luciano Pavarotti heard him and thought he could be a great dramatic tenor.

"This is in no small part due to the American singers, the great tenors and the basses."

Some asked for clarification but were usually given short shrift by the great tenor.

I once talked to a great tenor when I was 12 and asked him how long he studied.

The great tenor was speaking from the vortex of a rare cultural confluence.

"The color of a great tenor and the singing of a young bull" was one opinion.

In the pantheon of great French dramatic/lyric-dramatic tenors, his place is secure.

He lived in a time blessed with great tenors.

Why, a great soprano or great tenor with the right work might take twenty minutes to die!

He justly observes that the great tenor sang best of all in his homeland.