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The contralto voice has the lowest tessitura of the female voices and is noted for its rich and deep vocal timbre. [2] True operatic contraltos are very rare. [3] The following is a list of contralto singers who have regularly performed unamplified classical or operatic music in concert halls and/or opera houses. [4]
Lillian Evanti (1890–1967), classical concert performer and opera singer who gained fame in France; Maria Ewing (born 1950), operatic soprano and mezzo-soprano, classical and jazz concert performer; Cassandra Extavour (fl. 2000s), Canadian geneticist and classical soprano singer; Wilhelmenia Fernandez aka Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez ...
Jacqueline Marie Evancho (/ iː ˈ v æ ŋ k oʊ / ee-VANG-koh; [1] born April 9, 2000) is an American singer who gained wide recognition at an early age, singing primarily classical crossover covers. Since 2009, she has issued nine albums, a platinum-selling EP and two further EPs; three of her discs debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200.
Pages in category "21st-century American women opera singers" The following 196 pages are in this category, out of 196 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Charlotte Maria Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed, 21 February 1986) [1] is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress, and television presenter from Cardiff.. As a child, Church was a popular classical singer with a less-successful attempt to move into pop music in 2005.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch estimates in an article for The Guardian that about 40% of living composers are female, and yet, she laments, only about 17% of names on music publishers lists are female. [34] Research by the Boston Symphony Orchestra suggests a starker discrepancy; in programming for the top 22 US orchestras in 2014–2015, only 1.8% of ...
Mari Kodama (born 1967), classical concert pianist and recording artist; Momo Kodama (born 1972), classical concert pianist specializing in French and Japanese modern compositions; Yu Kosuge (born 1983), concert pianist who played from an early age; Mayako Kubo (born 1947), pianist and composer now in Berlin
Lesley Garrett, CBE (born 10 April 1955) [1] is an English soprano singer, musician, broadcaster and media personality. She is noted for being at home in opera and " crossover music ". [ 2 ]