Article: Angels and Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, 1600-1900.(Book review)

Article: Angels & Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in ...
Opera News;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Angels & Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera by Richard Somerset-Ward Yale University Press, 310pp ... change, plus c'est la meme chose, as Richard Somerset-Ward makes abundantly clear in this ...

Article: Absolute prima donnas Michael Kennedy enjoys the bad behaviour ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  June 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Angels and Monsters by Richard Somerset-Ward Yale, pounds 25, 325 ... and monsters are the male and female sopranos who sang in opera between 1600 ... study, the American author Richard Somerset-Ward combines scholarship ...

Article: Hitting the high notes.(Spring Music)(countertenor Brian Asawa is ...
The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine);  May 12, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... that for more than a century were usurped by crossdressing female sopranos and mezzo-sopranos. The appetite for these peculiar male ... discovered that I had a strong falsetto voice by imitating female sopranos in the choirs I was singing with in college," he confesses ...

Article: THE CRITICAL EAR.(Pasatiempo)
The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM);  September 18, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... that. Crowe belongs to the rare category of the male soprano: a man who disports himself in high-pitched reaches where female sopranos love to linger, up to and including high C. "There was a time I sang a Bach B Minor Mass at Lincoln Center," Crowe ...

Article: More plot twists to come.
Financial Adviser;  May 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... that all operas ended with a set-piece aria delivered by a portly lady. Although this comment is rather insulting to female sopranos, it is meant to convey the idea that there could be many twists and turns ahead in the operatic narrative before the final ...

Article: Early Music Glows With True Majestie
Chicago Sun-Times;  October 26, 1993 ;     663 words ... ... wherever it performs. Performing mostly early music, the choir is trained in the techniques of English choral singing. The female sopranos sing with the choirboys' clear "head tone," which forbids throaty vibrato or other less-than-pure techniques. At ...

Article: Etc Etc: Soothing sopranos.(The Guide)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland);  May 24, 2002 ;     341 words ...Byline: Robin Greer They are the most feared audience in the world, and yet three female sopranos (singers, not the television show about gangsters) are going to try and soothe the soul of the savage beast with the power of ...