This thesis consists of five chapters: The first chapter, the foreword cover this essay’s objective and motive of research, to method and area of my analysis. The second chapter is an introduction of different spectrum of such role, the historical backgrounds, and the methods of practicing. In the third chapter is an analysis of tenor’s art songs repertoire Schumann’s Dichterliebe op. 48 and translation there of. To explore a tenor’s role in opera in the fourth section, I utilize G. Verdi’s “ De’ miei bollenti spiriti ” from La Traviata and“La donna è mobile”from Rigoletto, with a study of the composer and the playwright’s biography and backgrounds. In addition, a translated interpretation analysis and the tenor’s role characteristics herein portrayed in the before mentioned masterworks will be discussed. Lastly, the fifth section is bring down the curtain and then conclude the thesis.
