Dresden, Heldentenor, Rienzi, Tannhäuser, Tichatscheck

The contribution acquaints the readers with the specific male voice type of the ?Heldentenor?, which is characteristic of the interpretation of the German Romantic opera. Furthermore, the text introduces a personal profile of Joseph Aloys Tichatscheck, Czech singer and prominent European Heldentenor, emerging currently upon the basis of digitized national and international libraries and archives. It charts pinnacles of Tichatscheck?s career and follows the world premieres of the Rienzi and Tannhäuser operas as well as his successes as a singer outside Bohemia. All these points have been achieved using historical, music-historical, historical-analytical, heuristic and comparison methods. The text is a fragment of a thesis in progress. The aim of the thesis is to use period sources to reconstruct Tichatscheck?s character and process the data perceivable from the available correspondence and newspaper articles of the period press chronologically. The aim of the research is mainly achieving the existence of the first Czech source-based monography of the performer provided with an edition of the sources.