#countertenor

[numnum-num]

Klaus Nomi ad in Shinjuku, Japan, in 1981.

[sgiandubh]

Palate cleanser

After my previous Anon (the others, plus @ladyjane-lj's ask will kindly have to wait my long, 4 days week-end starting tomorrow evening, thank you), I really needed this:

I very much prefer this simple and heartfelt Elizabethan tune to what I just read and posted.

And, of course, Alfred Deller's unique voice. Pure bliss.

Good night.

[a-bit-obsessively]

One of my soft spots is a high male voice and a low female voice singing together. Here's my absolute favourite, countertenor Philippe Jaroussky together with Natalie Stutzmann singing parts of "Son nata a lagrimar" from Handel's opera Giulio Cesare.

Youtube:

[akathecentimetre]

IESTYN DAVIES as DIDYMUS in Handel's Theodora Teatro de Real, 2024 with Julia Bullock and Joyce DiDonato

[derring-do]

Iestyn Davies (and friend) rehearsing Handel's Saul for Glyndebourne 2025

[sugarrootwrites]

I'm curious

what's your vocal range??

Soprano

Mezzo

Alto

Tenor

Baritone

Bass

Countertenor

Contralto

nuance/bald/results

Voting ended onMay 8, 2025

I'm a soprano but my range is D2-A7 so idk ig nuance for me what range does that go into

I'd love if you reblogged with your ranges in octaves too 😉😉

[unulf0]

found a catena d'adone recording! 2010, scherzi musicali and nicholas achten ( same guys who did my l'euridice :) ). adi is sung by renoud van mechelen. i was initially suspicious because that fellow's a tenor, while it seems that adone was an alto role, but from what i've heard so far, he makes use of the upper end of his range quite a lot + has quite an androgynous sound(!!!) so that's slightly reassuring.

tangentially related- the wiki article for the opera says that the role of adone was created by a countertenor ( not an alto-castrato ), but i'm trying to find the source for that ( the listing for la catena d'adone on corago only names one cast member, loreto vittori- then again, the corago database isn't immune from errors, as seen in how several libretti there are erroneously attributed to metastasio ).

[18thcenturythirsttrap]

This morning's earworm (I know not why). The late, great James Bowman, with the late and equally great David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London, performing Giunta vaga biltà by Francesco Landini (1325/35 - 1397).