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Title: Help!
Review: I suppose that Russell Watson is to fall into the same category as Andrea Bocelli as a love him or hate him tenor. This man's voice is atrocious. It is thin and completely colorless. When I heard excerpts from the CD, I positively cringed. I know that he has won awards, but I absolutely do not understand why. The rags-to-riches story is nice, but the voice itself has no foundation, no richness -- he just hits high notes. If you're going to listen to arias as an introduction to opera, please buy a CD by Domingo or Pavarotti so that you'll know what a tenor should really sound like. Though I'm not crazy about Bocelli singing opera yet (apparently he's working on it), he does have a beautiful, rich, deep quality to his voice as evidenced on "Sogno", his CD of love songs. I wish Watson all the best, but his popularity astounds me. And I love tenors! I only gave this CD one star because zero was not an option.
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