Theyre not comprimario roles, we heard from a number of readers who reminded us that some of these roles are considered lead roles.
And maybe we were being too picky when we denominated the role as comprimario for the purposes of which we meant it.
We were simply trying to acknowledge outstanding performances that served to make the strong counterpoint to the main story, and we called the singer charged with the duty of singing that counterpoint, a comprimario, closing the gap between lead characters and secondary characters and widening the gap between comprimario and supernumeraries.