Tenor or, a few notes below the C3, even down to A♭2. Some dramatic tenors have a rich and dark tonal colour to their voice (such as the mature Enrico Caruso) while others (like Francesco Tamagno) possess a bright, steely timbre. Dramatic tenor roles in operas: The heldentenor (English: "heroic tenor") has a rich, dark, powerful and dramatic voice. As its name implies, the heldentenor vocal "fach" features in the German romantic operatic repertoire. The heldentenor is the German equivalent of the tenore drammatico, however with a more baritonal quality: the typical Wagnerian protagonist. The keystone of the heldentenor's repertoire is
Girolamo Caruso 1923. On 12 November 1925, in the lecture room of Agronomy of "Istituto superiore agrario of Pisa", they placed a marble bust of Girolamo Caruso, carved by Giuseppe Michelotti, similar to those of Cosimo Ridolfi and Pietro Cuppari, wanted by Caruso himself. Alcamo, his native town, has remembered him by entitling him a street and the homonymous Technical Institute (now ITET). In 1873, in one of his introductory reports, Caruso put in evidence the social, economic, and productive implications of the "mezzadria" (called metayage in English): first of all it had to exist, from the economic point of view, for