Angelo Manzotti (born 1971 in

Marmirolo Marmirolo (Emilian language#Dialects, Mantovano: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about east of Milan and about northwest of Mantua. Its territory, which is totally plain as part o ...

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) is an Italian countertenor or

sopranist A sopranist (also, sopranista or male soprano) is a male singer who is able to sing in the vocal tessitura of a soprano usually through the use of falsetto or head voice vocal production. This voice type is a specific kind of countertenor. In rar ...

. He began singing in the falsetto register at the age of twelve. He studied at the Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro and made his debut in August 1989 at the Rossini Opera Festival there. After perfecting his technique with

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, he won the 1992 Luciano Pavarotti International Competition in Philadelphia. He has developed a special technique where only the front parts of the vocal cords vibrate, and in this way, he is able to avoid having to use the falsetto, obtaining a clear voice, remarkably similar to a woman's voice.Quaquero, Myria
'Una voce molto speciale'
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'' June 2, 1997 (in Italian). Accessed 25 March 2008. His first recording, ''Arie di Farinelli'' (Bongiovanni, 1995), was awarded the "Timbre de Platine" by ''Opéra International''.

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Living people 1971 births Musicians from the Province of Mantua Italian opera singers 21st-century Italian singers {{italy-opera-singer-stub