big-voiced

Though the brash, big-voiced pop singer Chappell Roan kicked off the show in Palm Desert, for some dates Rodrigo will be joined by the legendary Gen-X rockers the Breeders.

Taylor Swift’s big-voiced tourmate Gracie Abrams and fully arrived folk-pop star Noah Kahan, who headlines a virtually sold-out Gorge Amphitheatre this summer.

With her powerful high notes, sumptuous tone and onstage intensity, it seemed that Wagner’s Ortrud, Fricka, Kundry and even Isolde — the province of big-voiced sopranos — might be possible.

His own drink-hoisting, arena-trained ballad “Sand in My Boots” later proved a more natural pathway for Wallen, who isn’t necessarily a big-voiced singer a la Luke Combs or Chris Stapleton, to create large-scale emotional moments in his set.

The big-voiced beard’s bourbon-sweet vocals soared through the stadium air, the pesky marine layer no match for his quivering vibrato.