Issachah Savage

Issachah Savage is an American tenor appearing as soloist in Verdi's Requiem with The Florida Orchestra and The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay. He is known in the opera and concert world for a powerful, dramatic voice often associated with heavier, dramatic tenor repertoire. Listeners can expect a big, ringing sound suited to the demands of the Requiem's tenor solo.

In these performances, Savage sings the tenor solos in Verdi's Requiem, a large-scale choral and orchestral work written as a memorial rather than a liturgical piece for church use. The tenor part includes the "Ingemisco," a lyrical prayer that asks for mercy, and demands both a warm, sustained line and the ability to ride above a full chorus and orchestra in the work's more thunderous passages, like the "Dies irae." Listeners should expect a voice with enough weight and carrying power to cut through massed choral and orchestral sound, paired with the softer control needed for the piece's more intimate, prayerful moments.