History Main / TenorBoy

Contrast BadassBaritone, BassoProfundo and EvilSoundsDeep.

* The title character of ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'' is always cast as a tenor, to represent his innocence.

* Any prince worthy of getting the girl and lines of song in Disney films is a tenor, but the Prince in ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' might be the tenorest of the tenors: he has only a few lines altogether, but dang if some of those aren't used to establish his bright and youthful timbre to complete a duet with Snow White's own [[TheIngenue Ingenue soprano]]. To Opera-Savvy viewers [[DarkerAndEdgier the more gruesome accusations about his motives and character]] simply don't make any sense.

* In Disney's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', protagonist Aladdin is a baritone. {{Justified|Trope}} since his role doesn't follow the straitlaced archetype in the first place, instead he's an affable rogue. Yet still, he is the heroic young male lead and he does get the girl. Interestingly enough, Brad Kane, who provided the singing voice for Aladdin, also played Arpad in the 1992 revival of ''She Loves Me''.

* Orpheus from ''Theatre/{{Hadestown}}'' is another classic example, particularly Reeve Carney's take on the role. Doubly so when he's singing [[Leitmotif the refrain from the Epic triad]]. ''Triply'' so any time his voice is thrown into contrast with that of [[EvilSoundsDeep Mr. Hades]].

* Orpheus from ''Theatre/Hadestown'' is another classic example, particularly Reeve Carney's take on the role. Doubly so when he's singing [[Leitmotif the refrain from the Epic triad]]. ''Triply'' so any time his voice is thrown into contrast with that of [[EvilSoundsDeep Mr. Hades]].

* Orpheus from ''Theater/Hadestown'' is another classic example, particularly Reeve Carney's take on the role. Doubly so when he's singing [[Leitmotif the refrain from the Epic triad]]. ''Triply'' so any time his voice is thrown into contrast with that of [[EvilSoundsDeep Mr. Hades]].

* Raoul from ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'', though he has a noticeably lower tessitura and can and has been played by baritones (Creator/JohnBarrowman, for example). Notable for being hated by most of the fans. Ironically The Phantom himself is usually a tenor.

* VideoGame/NiNoKuniIIRevenantKingdom: SupportingProtagonist and AudienceSurrogate Roland Crane is a tenor for most of the game (his older, First World version is a raspy baritone to indicate his age), but, being a professional politician, he's the resident GuileHero, DeadpanSnarker and OnlySaneMan. He's also very much [[TheStoic a stoic]] most of the time.

Contrast BadassBaritone and EvilSoundsDeep.

* In the opera adaptation of ''Film/TheFly1986'', the two male corners of the LoveTriangle -- {{Adorkable}}, never-been-in-love-before Seth Brundle and manipulative, jealous, worldly Stathis Borans -- are a bass-baritone and tenor, respectively. This hints at what each character becomes over the course of the story as Seth mutates into a deranged HalfHumanHybrid and Stathis becomes the despairing Veronica's confidant.

* Likewise, Radames from Verdi's ''Theatre/{{Aida}}'' is also a spinto tenor, so he's hardly boyish.

* And in Janacek's Jenufa, we have two tenors: Steva is a jerk who knocks up poor heroine and then leaves her, Laca is a neurotic who cuts her face in a fit of jealousy (that's why Steva leaves her, WhatMeasureIsANonCute).

* Raoul from ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera''. Notable for being hated by most of the fans. Ironically The Phantom himself is usually a tenor.

* Parsifal, Stolzing, and Siegfried -- the more "boyish" [[Creator/RichardWagner Wagner]] tenors. There's a point in one of the operas where Siegfried has to impersonate another character, a baritone. It's notorious difficult to pull off on stage. Some recordings of the opera get around it by having Siegfried sing the part in his normal voice and then editing it into a baritone. It's also been done on stage by having the actual baritone sing and act the part, then leave stage and "re-enter" as tenor Siegfried, which works since he's also supposed to be in magical disguise.

* Gabe and his father Dan from ''Theatre/NextToNormal'' are both expected to hit some very high notes. Fitting with the intense RockOpera style of music and their boyish NiceGuy characterization.

* Gabe Goodman in ''Theatre/NextToNormal'' is a tenor, but is actually [[spoiler: a (sorta) villainous ghost-child]].

* The title character of ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'' can be cast as either a tenor or a baritone. Tenors may be able to sing instead of shout the last note of "Extraordinary," whereas baritones have to go into falsetto for the high C in the "Corner of the Sky" fadeout.