The Serb tenor Vojislav Kostunica

Vojislav Kostunica had one great handicap for the profession of opera tenor, though: his length. A singer of only five feet tall would only be able to perform a limited number of parts on the opera stage, and these certainly did not include the parts for which he seemed destined in view of his vocal qualities.
In some scenes, his height of only five feet could be concealed, but more often it could not, certainly not in lovers' duets with sopranos towering over him head and shoulders. The movie director and accompanist of Vojislav Kostunica, Nemanja Kusturica (length 1.58m) told that Vojislav Kostunica was at least 10 cm shorter. So, even 1.50m seemed not granted to him.