Legendary character, international tenor starved of love (6)
I believe the answer is:
icarus
'legendary character' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'international tenor starved of love' is the wordplay.
'international' becomes 'i' (abbreviation eg in IMF).
'tenor' becomes 'caruso' (singer Enrico Caruso).
'starved of' suggests deleting specific letters.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'caruso' with 'o' removed is 'carus'.
'i'+'carus'='ICARUS'
(Other definitions for icarus that I've seen before include "one on hazardous trip" , "Mythical flier who went too near the sun" , "who made unwise flight?" , "he drowned" , "he tried flying" .)