One of my cousins in England, Biraj Barkakaty, happens to be a counter-tenor; currently an alto lay clerk at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, so my ears perked up at the recent NPR broadcast about tenor Carl Tanner who hails from nearby Arlington, Virginia. The interesting part of the NPR interview was the story of how Carl Tanner got into singing. He used to play football and sing high school choir, but he wasn't thinking about singing even after he graduated from the Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Winchester, Virginia. He said that he thought he wasn't good at it and he lacked the confidence and the drive, so he took a job driving truck, but found that it paid very little. Then, because of his physique, a bounty hunter hired him as a backup and he hunted down suspects for a while. He was quite good at too, having successfully captured 169 out of 178 suspects, but after getting shot at, he decided it was enough and, finally got into singing. And now he's a famous tenor, highly in demand at various opera houses around the world. Amazing story, isn't it!
Currently Carl Tanner is singing the role of Samson in the Washington National Opera's production of Samson et Dalila—they have seven performances during May 14 through June 4, 2005. I mentioned the Carl Tanner story and the Samson et Dalila opera to my violinist daughter Emily. She asked me if we could go see the opera and, guess what, I was able to get tickets to this Sunday's performance. The opera is sung in French with English supertitles; that'll be a chance to brush up on my non-existent French :-)
Tags: classical opera tenor countertenor Carl Tanner Samson et Dalila alto NPR
This is Carl. Thanks for the nice comments. Hope to see you posting at my new blog: http://tannerthetenor.blogspot.com.
Posted by: Carl Tanner | January 11, 2008 at 09:38 PM
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