Editing Tenor (section)

=== Tenor buffo or spieltenor ===
A Tenor buffo or spieltenor is a tenor with good acting ability, and the ability to create distinct voices for his characters. This voice specializes in smaller comic roles. The range of the tenor buffo is from the C one octave below middle C (C<sub>3</sub>) to the C one octave above middle C (C<sub>5</sub>).<ref>{{cite web|author1=Suverkrop, Bard|author2=Draayer, Suzanne|year=2017|title=Tenor Aria|website=IPASource.com|url=http://www.ipasource.com/tenor|access-date=16 April 2017}}</ref> The tessitura of these parts ranges from lower than other tenor roles to very high and broad. These parts are often played by younger tenors who have not yet reached their full vocal potential or older tenors who are beyond their prime singing years. Only rarely will a singer specialize in these roles for an entire career.<ref name=Boldrey /> In French [[opéra comique]], supporting roles requiring a thin voice but good acting are sometimes described as 'trial', after the singer [[Antoine Trial]] (1737–1795), examples being in the operas of [[Maurice Ravel|Ravel]] and in ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann]]''.<ref>{{cite book | author = Cotte, R.J.V. | date = 1997 | chapter = Trial, French Family of Musicians | title = The New Grove Dictionary of Opera | location = London, New York | publisher = Macmillan | url = http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/ | access-date = 16 April 2017 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170309025722/http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/ | archive-date = 9 March 2017 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>{{page needed|date=April 2017}}

Tenor buffo or spieltenor roles in operas:<ref name=Boldrey />{{page needed|date=April 2017}}

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* Count Danilo Danilovitsch, ''[[The Merry Widow]]'' ([[Franz Lehár|Lehár]])
* Don Basilio, ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]'' ([[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]])
* Mime, ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen]]'' ([[Richard Wagner|Wagner]])
* Don Anchise/ Il Podestà, ''[[La finta giardiniera]]'' (Mozart)
* Monostatos, ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' (Mozart)
* Pedrillo, ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]'' (Mozart)
* Slender, ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera)]]'' ([[Otto Nicolai|Nicolai]])
* John Styx, ''[[Orpheus in the Underworld]]'' ([[Jacques Offenbach|Offenbach]])
* Prince Paul, ''[[La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein]]'' (Offenbach)
* Kálmán Zsupán, ''[[The Gypsy Baron]]'' ([[Johann Strauss II]])
* The Captain, ''[[Wozzeck]]'' ([[Alban Berg|Berg]])
* The Magician, ''[[The Consul]]'' ([[Gian Carlo Menotti|Menotti]])
* Beppe, ''[[Pagliacci]]'' ([[Ruggero Leoncavallo|Leoncavallo]])
* Frantz, ''[[The Tales of Hoffmann]]'' (Offenbach)
* Spoletta, ''Tosca'' ([[Giacomo Puccini|Puccini]])
* Goro, ''Madama Butterfly'' (Puccini)
* Pong, ''Turandot'' (Puccini)
* Gastone, ''[[La traviata]]'' ([[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]])
* Roderigo, ''[[Otello]]'' (Verdi)
* Dr. Caius, ''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]'' (Verdi)
* Gherardo, ''Gianni Schicchi'' (Puccini)
* King Kaspar, ''[[Amahl and the Night Visitors]]'' (Menotti)
* Triquet, ''[[Eugene Onegin (opera)|Eugene Onegin]]'' ([[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]])
* The Holy Fool, ''[[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]]'' ([[Modest Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]])
* Pasquale, ''[[Orlando paladino]]'' ([[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]])
* Platon Kuzmich Kovalev, ''[[The Nose (opera)|The Nose]]'' ([[Dmitri Shostakovich|Shostakovich]])
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