Entertainment News

Sat, 17 April 2010

The Ten Tenors Bring The Power of Ten to Australia

Filed under: classical music, rock music, Tours — site admin @ 5:31 pm

When you get more than one tenor and they’re Australian and good looking and sing like the heavens have opened, you get The Ten Tenors – Australia’s longest, continually running live export and they’re coming home.

Confirmed to return with their latest installment, a brand new show called The Power Of Ten – a hit overseas with sold-out shows in Europe, acclaimed by the critics and hailed as their best yet – this show punches it up with renditions of rock songs like you’ve never heard them before, including Meatloaf’s I Would Do Anything For Love and the famed Ike and Tina Turner rhythmic rocker, River Deep, Mountain High.

They tip their hat to fellow Aussies, AC/DC, opening The Power Of Ten with the might of a ten-muscled-voice-de-force, performing Thunderstruck in what is probably its most unique incarnation in history.

“Ten voices, in full thundering flight, fill every corner of the room,” says Musical Director, Graham Foote. “It really does hit you in the chest.”

The Ten Tenors’ The Power Of Ten will play an eleven date tour, kicking off on Mother’s Day in Adelaide, will divert to New Zealand before heading back to the Townsville’s Civic Theatre on May 30, the Mackay Entertainment Centre on June 1, Rockhampton’s Pilbeam Theatre on June 2, Maryborough’s Brolga Theatre on June 4, Brisbane’s Queensland Performing Arts Centre – Concert Hall on June 6, Toowoomba’s Empire Theatre on June 7 and Sydney’s Sutherland Entertainment Centre for two shows, June 9 and 10, before wrapping up with another two shows in Melbourne at The Palms at Crown, June 11 and 12.

Tickets for the Adelaide Mother’s Day 2pm matinee are on sale tomorrow, April 12, and East coast concerts go on sale Monday April 19.

“This show is new and different and powerful,” continues Foote, also one of the classically-trained, twenty or thirty-something, handsome, personable Tenors.

“We wanted something right out of the gate that was going set the tone, that would introduce the audience to the sound and build excitement.”

But it’s not all heart-thumping, chest-pounding boldness; the two hour The Power Of Ten is an ebb and flow of rock’s greatest hits alongside classical favourites, making for a fluid, dramatic and tender concert experience.

Their beautiful arrangement of the Seal hit Kiss From A Rose, through to the sung-in-Spanish, passionate, suave and powerful En Aranjuez con tu Amore – a famous melody that is deliberately “tenorial”; as well as their tribute to Pavarotti, the operatic song with soaring high notes, Rondine al nido; to the famous operative aria and the boys’ hallmark, Vesti la Giubba (perhaps the most famous after Nessun Dorma); to Queen’s The Show Must Go On, Paul McCartney’s Live and Let Die and Sarah McLachlan’s Angel, to any of the other incredible moments that fill this stunning show, The Ten Tenors’ The Power Of Ten is a unique blend of high-octane arias and kick-driven rock classics, decanted with divine tenderness.

The Ten Tenors’ huge, operatic|pop interpretation of the Eurythmics’ 80’s chart-topper, There Must Be An Angel, quite simply makes the soul soar.

And, as they are, and have been before, The Ten Tenors, renowned for their on-stage larrikinism, will be encouraging audiences to cheer, whistle, clap and shout and make as much noise as they possibly can.

A US reviewer commented of the show, “The Ten Tenors may come from the land down under. But they’re experts in over-the-top showmanship.”

If it’s true, as they sing, “a long way to the top if you want to Rock-n-Roll”, then it’s short and fast, it seems, if you want to Rock-n-Opera it, ten-fold, Tenor-style.

Emerging from their tenth professional year, The Ten Tenors have released eight albums, sold more than 1.3 million of them and gone multi-platinum; they’ve released four live concert DVDs and are set to release another one later this year from Spain; have performed more than 1,700 international concerts in 21 countries on six continents and sold in excess of 3.3 million concert tickets.

They’ve performed in Petra at the King of Jordan’s birthday party, officiated the Tennis Open in Germany, performed Australia’s national anthem at the prematch openers for two AFL Grand Finals and, the Melbourne Cup. They’ve opened Michigan State’s Grid Iron Grand Final and performed a benefit in the US for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. They even acquainted Americans with the started-in-Oz charity fund-raiser Movember, sporting “tashes” and inspiring curiosity during their media interviews in November last year.

In January they went Top 30 on the Spanish Charts with Orquesta de RTVE and this coming May and June, pumped high on the power, The Ten Tenors will return home with a brand new show unlike any they’ve ever done before.

The Power Of Ten – for those about to Rock-n-Opera, we salute you!

Adelaide

Sunday, 9 May - FESTIVAL THEATRE - 2pm

Tickets: BASS | 131 246 | www.bass.net.au

Townsville

Sunday, 30 May - CIVIC THEATRE - 2pm

Tickets: TicketShop | (07) 4727 9797

Mackay

Tuesday, 1 June - MACKAY ENTERTAINMENT & CONVENTION CENTRE - 7:30pm

(07) 4961 9777 | www.mackaytix.com.au

Rockhampton

Wednesday, 2 June - PILBEAM THEATRE - 7:30pm