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Written by Rebecca LaPole, for NEXTnc
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Thursday, 23 November 2006 |
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 Women, prepare to be wooed. Men, prepare to be wowed.
The Ten Tenors are coming to the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins for a 5-night stay, Nov. 28–Dec. 1. Their Australian accents, sexy demure and talented singing voices are enough to make anyone swoon.
Calling from Ontario, Canada, Ten Tenor singer Stewart Morris laughed heartily when asked if the Ten Tenors take lessons from fellow Aussies, Thunder from Down Under, on being sexy. “We probably should,” he said.
“It is very hard to do and not laugh at yourself. When you’re up there singing with gusto about romance and passion, we have a hard time,” Morris said. “For Australians, it’s not like us to be too serious. It really takes concentration, but the girls like it, so we just think, there’s a room full of girls out there, you gotta be a sexy man.”
The Ten Tenors sing everything from pop to opera and some songs are German, Italian and French. Morris doesn’t know several different languages, just the basic words needed to sing opera. “Love, longing, dying, happiness; those words pop up a lot,” he said.
Morris enjoyed music in general as a youngster and found an opportunity in high school to audition for “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat”. He loved how “Joseph” has a fun story and makes fun of itself.
“I like how it’s in a ‘70s context and we get to wear psychedelic clothing. And there’s just great music, simple and catchy. It’s like a party on stage.”
The audience’s reaction always gives Morris a thrill. Especially, he said, “when we perform songs like ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and then switch to ‘Nessun dorma’, the crowd gets a frenzied vibe, and then we completely change cues, and we get an even bigger response. We cross genres and I like that people can really enjoy that.”
Morris also loves grandeur in his personal life.
“There’s a rule in my house that if you’re going to have a party, it must be a spectacle. Once I had a dummy with a watermelon for a head and played ‘Ride of the Valkyries’. I came out of the fog and sliced off the head. It was awesome.”
TO GO TO THE SHOW
• 7:30 p.m. Nov. 28-Dec.1, and 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2
• Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St., Fort Collins
• $38 center seats, $36 side seats, available at www.lctix.com or call 221.6730 | Only registered users can write comments.
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