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Contralto Meredith Arwady's title character is the medieval version of a battered wife.
Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera
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Contralto Meredith Arwady was a dull Griselda in an unflattering wig and costume, only catching fire when she explored the very resonant depths of her range.
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Contralto Meredith Arwady's title character is the medieval version of a battered wife.
Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera
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I have a pretty good range generally Contralto through the mid upper levels of Mezzo Soprano.
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So exquisite is the adaptation of Bass to Treble, of Tenor to Contralto, that oftentimes the Loved Ones, though twenty thousand leagues away, recognize at once the responsive note of their destined Lover; and, penetrating the paltry obstacles of distance, Love unites the three.
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Then she addressed him in a normal Contralto voice, the one he'd heard over the phone.
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Then she addressed him in a normal Contralto voice, the one he'd heard over the phone.
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His wife was Henrietta Lebrune, the Boston “Society Contralto,” and the single child of the union was, at the request of his grandfather, christened Anthony Comstock Patch.
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_Young Lady_ (_in Contralto tones of remarkable depth and richness_).
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891
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The next and most important step was in all probability to make the common Geige or three-stringed Fiddle of the same shape as these Tenor and Contralto
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