contraltos

Modern-day mezzo-sopranos and contraltos may have to dig a bit deeper in the library or labor for days with transposing, but should stand firm when countertenors and sopranos try to push them off the stage - or push back.

Archive 2007-01-01 Celeste Winant 2007

It works well on its own, but usually doesn't mix well with contraltos.

Archive 2009-05-01 Brian Clegg 2009

Modern-day mezzo-sopranos and contraltos may have to dig a bit deeper in the library or labor for days with transposing, but should stand firm when countertenors and sopranos try to push them off the stage - or push back.

A Mezzo-soprano Manifesto Celeste Winant 2007

We know that by the height of G.F. Handel's career, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos were finally recognized on the public stage, and music from that time on seems to fill the gap in tessitura (the general range within which the notes of a piece lie).

Archive 2007-01-01 Celeste Winant 2007

We know that by the height of G.F. Handel's career, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos were finally recognized on the public stage, and music from that time on seems to fill the gap in tessitura (the general range within which the notes of a piece lie).

A Mezzo-soprano Manifesto Celeste Winant 2007

"A common saying among contraltos is that they're only allowed to play 'witches', 'bitches', or 'britches'."

"How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?" Ann Althouse 2008

Thus, modern mezzos/contraltos such as myself wrestle with the slightly-too-high tessitura of the dessus or the slightly-too-low tessitura of the alto (or haute-contre).

Music on the Horizons Celeste Winant 2006

Thus, modern mezzos/contraltos such as myself wrestle with the slightly-too-high tessitura of the dessus or the slightly-too-low tessitura of the alto (or haute-contre).

Archive 2006-10-01 Celeste Winant 2006

She improved, and the little society became speedily divided into Walkerites and Larkinsians; and between these two ladies (as indeed between Guzzard and Bulger before mentioned, between Miss Brunck and Miss Horsman, the two contraltos, and between the chorus-singers, after their kind) a great rivalry arose.

Mens Wives 2006

This is a cappella group of eighteen singers (5 sopranos, 4 contraltos, 5 tenors, and 4 basses), directed by Electo Silva, who also composes and arranges.

The Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato 2001