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List Of Operatic Contraltos
The contralto voice in opera and classical music has a range which typically lies between the F below middle C ( F3) to two Fs above middle C (F5). In the lower and upper extremes, some contralto voices can sing from the E below middle C (E3) to two Bs above middle C (B5). The contralto voice has the lowest tessitura of the female voices and is noted for its rich and deep vocal timbre. True operatic contraltos are very rare. The following is a list of contralto singers who have regularly performed unamplified classical or operatic music in concert halls and/or opera houses. A–L *Eunice Alberts (1927–2012) *Marietta Alboni (1823–1894) *Marian Anderson (1897–1993) * Fanny Anitúa (1887–1968) * Cecil Arden (1894–1989) *Germaine Bailac (1881–1977) * Fedora Barbieri (1920–2003) *Eula Beal (1919–2008) *Marianne Brandt (1842–1921) * Karin Branzell (1891–1974) * Muriel Brunskill (1899–1980) *Clara Butt (1872–1936) *AnnaMaria Cardinalli (born 1979) * Marie-Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Anderson
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897April 8, 1993) was an American contralto. She performed a wide range of music, from opera to spirituals. Anderson performed with renowned orchestras in major concert and recital venues throughout the United States and Europe between 1925 and 1965. Anderson was an important figure in the struggle for African-American artists to overcome racial prejudice in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. In 1939 during the era of racial segregation, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to allow Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. The incident placed Anderson in the spotlight of the international community on a level unusual for a classical musician. With the aid of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Anderson performed a critically acclaimed open-air concert on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, on the Lincoln Memorial steps in the ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fedora Barbieri
Fedora Barbieri (4 June 1920 – 4 March 2003) was an Italian mezzo-soprano and actor. Barbieri was born in Trieste. She performed regularly in Florence for fifty years, and performed internationally through the years. She died, aged 82, in Florence. Career After studying singing with Federico Bugamelli and Luigi Toffolo, she won an audition at age twenty to enter the school of the Teatro Comunale in Florence, where she studied with Giulia Tess. She then debuted in November 1940, as Fidalma in Il matrimonio segreto. Her Teatro alla Scala debut, where she was to have her greatest successes, came in 1942, as Meg Page. She was one of the first performers to investigate and perform in early operas by Monteverdi and Pergolesi. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on 6 November 1950, as Princess Eboli in Verdi's ''Don Carlos''. Altogether, she gave 95 performances there over 9 seasons, in 11 different roles. She also sang Eboli in the famous Luchino Visconti production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clorinda Corradi
Clorinda Corradi (November 27, 1804 – June 29, 1877) was an Italian opera singer and one of the most famous contraltos in history. Life Clorinda Corradi Pantanelli was born in Urbino, Italy. She was the daughter of a nobleman, Filippo Corradi, and countess Vittoria Peroli. Corradi received her musical education in Urbino. Initially, her father enrolled her at the Cappella Musicale di Urbino under the direction of music teacher and composer Filippo Celli. She was obliged to make a living by singing because of the family's economic situation. She began her career at the Recanati theatre in 1823 with the Rossini's operas ''L'Italiana in Algeri'' and ''La Cenerentola'' and was received well by audiences and critics. Between 1823 and 1835 she gave a series of performances in the most famous Italian theatres ( La Scala, Milan; Teatro Comunale, Bologna; La Fenice, Venice; Teatro Comunale, Ravenna; La Pergola, Florence; Teatro San Carlo, Naples; etc.). In Europe, Corradi sang in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Condon
Kate Condon (February 4, 1877 – May 27, 1941) was an American contralto who performed in light and grand operas on Broadway and in opera houses over the first two decades of the twentieth century. Early life Condon was born in 1877 in Bloomington, Illinois, the second youngest of six children raised by William and Bridget Condon. Some records give her birth date as February 4, 1880, but this is unlikely since her brother Thomas was born in October 1879. Condon's parents both came to America from Ireland in the years leading up to the American Civil War and married in 1859, settling in Bloomington, where in 1860 their first child was born. Her father became a well known Illinois merchant. Career Condon's first appearance in a major production on the New York stage came in November 1900, playing Siebel in the English Grand Opera Company's production of Charles Gounod's ''Faust'' with the Metropolitan Opera. She had previously been a member of the Castle Square Company in Boston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Belle Cole
Belle Cole (1845 or 1853–1905) was a well-known American contralto opera singer. Belle Cole was born Lucetta Belle Weaver to Philander Weaver and Mary Ruth Ann Harford, the ninth of eleven children. She was married to J. Calvin Cole. She first achieved success while on a transcontinental tour of the United States with Theodore Thomas in 1883. She later sang in England, performing at The Crystal Palace The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. The exhibition took place from 1 May to 15 October 1851, and more than 14,000 exhibitors from around th ... and many other venues. In 1901, she toured Australia and in 1894 she performed in several New Zealand cities. References External links A poster of Belle Colle in the British Library collection American contraltos 1845 births 1905 deaths {{US-opera-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lili Chookasian
Lili Chookasian (August 1, 1921April 9, 2012) was an American contralto of Armenian ethnicity, who appeared with many of the world's major symphony orchestras and opera houses. She began her career in the 1940s as a concert singer but did not draw wider acclaim until she began singing opera in her late thirties. She arose as one of the world's leading contraltos during the 1960s and 1970s, and notably had a long and celebrated career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1962 through 1986. She was admired for her sonorous, focused tone as well as her excellent musicianship. She often chose, against tradition, to sing oratorios from memory. Early life and concert career: 1921–1958 Chookasian was born in Chicago, the youngest of three children to immigrants from Armenia. Her family had immigrated to the United States shortly after the Armenian genocide of 1915 which claimed the lives of two of Chookasian's grandparents and several members of her extended family. Chook ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Louise Cébron-Norbens
Marie-Louise Cébron-Norbens (1888–1958) was a French mezzo-soprano opera singer who is remembered for her roles in operetta. She made her début at the Gaîté-Lyrique as Prince Charming in Nicolas Isouard's '' Cendrillon'' in January 1909. She went on to perform in operettas in various Paris theatres until 1938, participating in the première of Ruggero Leoncavallo's ''Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre'' at the Théâtre Apollo in November 1910. One of her major successes was the role of Zélie in Louis Urgel's operetta ''Monsieur Dumollet'' at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in May 1922. Biography Born in the 8th arrondissement of Paris on 31 March 1888, Marie Louise Berthe Cébron was the daughter of Berthe Marie Louise Cébron. She married twice, first on 25 July 1910 with the lawyer Jacques Josef Guélot who died fighting on 6 September 1914, and then on 11 September 1920 with Adolphe Eugère Altuzaara-Alvarrez of the Cuban consulate. From 1907 to 1908, she studied at the Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AnnaMaria Cardinalli
AnnaMaria Cardinalli ( AnnaMaria Cardinalli-Padilla; born 1979) is an American military investigator, classical guitarist, and operatic contralto. Education Cardinalli graduated from high school at the age of 14 and college at the age of 18. Her M.A. was awarded at age 20, and, at the age of 24, she became the youngest person to complete a doctoral degree at the University of Notre Dame. She received a B.A. in Performing Arts from St. Mary's College of California, her M.A. in the Great Books Program from St. John's College in Santa Fe, and completed her Ph.D. in Theology, where she majored in Liturgical Studies with a minor in Latino Studies. Her doctoral research focused upon the music and worship practices of the ''Penitentes'', a secretive Catholic religious society with roots in medieval Spain. Also at 14, Cardinalli published the nonfiction book ''Why Wait? Graduate!'' (Northwest Publishing, 1995), intended to assist other students seeking early graduation from high schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Butt
Dame Clara Ellen Butt, (1 February 1872 – 23 January 1936) was an English contralto and one of the most popular singers from the 1890s through to the 1920s. She had an exceptionally fine contralto voice and an agile singing technique, and impressed contemporary composers such as Saint-Saëns and Elgar; the latter composed his ''Sea Pictures'', Op. 37 with her voice in mind. Her main career was as a recitalist and concert singer. She appeared in only two operatic productions, both of Gluck's ''Orfeo ed Euridice''. Later in her career she frequently appeared in recitals together with her husband, the baritone Kennerley Rumford. She made numerous recordings for the gramophone. Early life and career Clara Butt was born in Southwick, Sussex, the eldest daughter of Henry Albert Butt, a sea captain, and his wife Clara ''née'' Hook. Kennedy, Michael"Butt, Dame Clara Ellen (1872–1936)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, Jan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Musical Times
''The Musical Times'' is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in the country. It was originally created by Joseph Mainzer in 1842 as ''Mainzer's Musical Times and Singing Circular'', but in 1844 he sold it to Joseph Alfred Novello (who also founded '' The Musical World'' in 1836), and it was published monthly by the Novello and Co. (also owned by Alfred Novello at the time).. It first appeared as ''The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular'', a name which was retained until 1903. From the very beginning, every issue - initially just eight pages - contained a simple piece of choral music (alternating secular and sacred), which choral society members subscribed to collectively for the sake of the music. Its title was shortened to its present name from January 1904. Even during World War II it continued to be published regularly, making it the world's oldest continuously publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Brunskill
Muriel Lucy Brunskill (18 December 1899 – 18 February 1980) was an English contralto of the mid-twentieth century. Her career included concert, operatic and recital performance from the early 1920s until the 1950s. She worked with many of the leading musicians of her day, including Sir Thomas Beecham, Albert Coates, Felix Weingartner and Sir Henry Wood. Early years Muriel Brunskill was born in Kendal, Westmorland, England, daughter of Edmund Capstick Brunskill."Brunskill, Muriel" ''Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008''; online edn, Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 1 May 2009 She studied singing in London and Paris with |
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