person
Enrico Tamberlik
Tamberlik
also: Тамберлик
Italian tenor (1820-1889) famous across Europe and Russia for his powerful high C-sharp; a byword in Chekhov's day for vocal virtuosity, invoked here as the (implausible) teacher of a small-town lyric tenor.
Reading notes
- A Living Chronology §37 Tamberlik
Enrico Tamberlik (1820-1889), the real Italian tenor famed for his high C-sharp; invoking him as Prilipchin's teacher inflates the small-town singer's pedigree well beyond plausibility.