I found a striking new face of tenor on the web, whose name is Joseph Kaiser, Canadian, whose voice clear and flowingly lyrical which is absolutely on the very line of my favourites, among whom are Tito Schipa, Giuseppe di Stefano, Nicolai Gedda, Fritz Wunderlich, Peter Schreier, Jose Carrearas, and Ian Bostridge.
Besides, along with the beautiful voice, let alone good-looking, his figure of 6’4” tall is overwhelming. I’ve never met a tenor like him. He reminds me of Placido Domingo or my Stefano of their younger years, though his appearance does not resemble them. Joseph Kaiser made Lensky and his aria very special, whose character in Eugene Onegin has not been so attractive for me before. Captivated with Kaiser’s singing Lensky, I’ve searched for all of Lensky’s aria (“Kuda Kuda, vi Udalilis…”) on the YouTube and listened to most of them. They are Stefano’s, Gedda’s, Wunderlich’s, Domingo’s, Jan Peerce’s, Rolando Villazon’s, Jussi Bjorling’s, Manuel Escorcio’s, and so on. Each of them was definitely intriguing. I don’t have realised till now how fascinating Lensky’s aria was like this. It is not less than Nemorino’s, Orfeo’s, Rodolf’s, and Cavaradossi’s.
I was lucky to have run across Joseph, in a sense both accidently and mistakenly. Initially I wanted to search for a man named Joseph Kaizer from the web, who played “Hora Staccato” nicely with cello. I, then, wrongly typed z to s, and consequently confronted with a tenor whose name Joseph Kaiser. What a fantastic mistake! I must have been destined to know him. ;-) Ridiculous is it? Maybe…, but the “destined” is right formulation because I passionately love [classical] music. Anyway, it is the first time for me to have been knocked out by a tenor at one blow. Do I become too generous for listening to music? Is my longing hours for Music so long, my immortal lover whom I’ve neglected for these years?
You know, my first foreign pen-pal of decades ago was a boy named Joseph, yet he was a HongKongnian, and one of the permanent companions of my literary life is Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born British writer. Now I begin to think that Joseph is a special name for me. In addition, I also found a young Russian tenor named Alexey Kudrya, whose voice has tremendous musical potentiality of my favourite. These days, I have been so happy with their voices.
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