I don't believe he was parodying any particular tenor; I expect he was simply struck by the number of sibilants he had to generate whenever he sang it.
It reminds me a bit of Danny Kaye's impersonation of a Russian baritone with hay fever being presented with a bouquet of flowers and then trying to sing Ochi chornye as his final encore.
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