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Mezzos in pants roles

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Sabine Devieilhe and Emily D'Angelo in Der Rosenkavalier. Wiener Staatsoper, 2025. (Photo: Michael Pöhn / Wiener Staatsoper)

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Risë Stevens for LIFE Magazine, 1950, ""flinging Cherubino's red cape over Octavian's costume".

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Denyce Graves as Don Fernando in Fidelio (Washington National Opera, 2024) Photo: Mauricio Castro

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Paula Murrihy & Ying Fang in Der Rosenkavalier (Santa Fe Opera 2024)

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Lise Davidsen and Amanda Forsythe in rehearsal for Tobias Kratzer's production of Fidelio. Royal Opera House, 2020. (Photo: Lara Cappelli)

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Michèle Losier, Tara Erraught, and Bernard Richter in Jetske Mijnssen's production of La clemenza di Tito. Staatsoper Hamburg, 2024. (Photo: Hans Jörg Michel)

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Sound off—how accurate is this? And what other trouser roles would you add?

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Joyce DiDonato and Daniela Barcellona in Semiramide. Royal Opera House, 2017. (Photo: Bill Cooper)

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bouncing off the walls a lil

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Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito’s production of Ariodante with Diana Haller, Ana Durlovski, and Christophe Dumaux. Staatsoper Stuttgart, 2017. (Photo: Christoph Kalscheuer)

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Voi che sapete from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, sung by Emily D’Angelo.

Happy birthday to the babygirl of all time (Nozze) <3

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Emily D’Angelo in the title role of Handel’s Ariodante. Opéra national de Paris, 2023. (Photo: Agathe Poupeney / ONP)

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another impeccable Cherubino portrayal

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Ingela Brimberg in Fidelio, Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2023. (Photo: Bernd Uhlig)

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Tatiana Troyanos and Edith Mathis in Der Rosenkavalier. Salzburger Festspiele, 1969.

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Joyce DiDonato and Daniela Barcellona in Semiramide. Royal Opera House, 2017. (Photo: Bill Cooper)