countertenor

Example Sentences

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The most surprising of the opera’s quartet of characters is a young actor named Leonardo — a countertenor role — who impersonates Greta Garbo for a fan, whom Leonardo crosses over from Mictlan to visit every year.

From New York Times

That group, which she dissolved a decade later, was originally intended to allow her to sing Baroque repertoire that countertenors had otherwise claimed, she said, but podium dates started to follow.

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Onstage, Shamir glowed as he set his distinct countertenor voice ablaze against the cool stage lights.

From Washington Post

The teachers were trying to treat me as a countertenor.

From New York Times

The young countertenor Hugh Cutting was on less sure footing in similar passages, in which his intonation was unreliable compared with smoother legato melodies.

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