Lately you may have noticed the omnipresence of a new opera star, a handsome young man with a rakish beard, gazing out from the covers of opera magazines and CD jewel cases. His name is David Daniels, ...
Andreas Scholl is nearly fifty, and embarking on a new career as a conductor; Iestyn Davies is currently packing them in with his incarnation of the castrato Farinelli at a West End theatre. Ten years ...
Reginald Mobley is a countertenor. It's a male vocal range comparable to a female mezzo-soprano. And Reginald Mobley is one of THE top countertenors in the world! Nowadays, countertenors often sing ...
Andreas Scholl is nearly fifty, and embarking on a new career as a conductor; Iestyn Davies is currently packing them in with his incarnation of the castrato Farinelli at a West End theatre. Ten years ...
A revival of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” this summer at Glyndebourne, an English opera festival, features three countertenors with three different sounds. By David Belcher It’s a good time to be a ...
“In principle I’m a singer. I don’t define myself as a countertenor. I'm a musician and then I’m a singer.” The celebrated German countertenor Andreas Scholl says his distinctive, otherworldly high ...
Gaga, move over — and you, too, Annie Lennox, Grace Jones and David Bowie. Make room for the countertenors, particularly Bejun Mehta, whose sweet voice holds a sweet and strange, gender-bending and ...