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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]
Galli-Curci first arrived in the United States in the autumn of 1916 as a virtual unknown. Her stay in the US was intended to be brief, but the acclaim she received for her historic American debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Chicago on 18 November 1916 (her 34th birthday) was so wildly enthusiastic that she accepted an offer to extend her association with the Chicago Opera Association, where she ...
Cecilia Bartoli OMRI (Italian: [tʃeˈtʃiːlja ˈbartoli]; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian mezzo-soprano widely known in the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi and for lesser-known music of the Baroque and Classical periods. She has also sung soprano and alto repertory. Bartoli is considered a singer with an unusual timbre ...
Women did not often compose classical music in the 18th century. While compositions written by women were acceptable in Europe and Great Britain, compositions written by American women were mostly vaguely attributed or unattributed. [2] From 1870 to 1910, women started to take more jobs in classical music, usually teaching positions.
Grace Melzia Bumbry (January 4, 1937 – May 7, 2023) was an American opera singer, considered one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, who also ventured to soprano roles. She belonged to a pioneering generation of African-American classical singers, led by Marian Anderson .
Indian women classical singers (4 C, 185 P) Pakistani women classical musicians (2 P) + Women's orchestras (15 P) C. Women classical cellists (7 C, 24 P)
Barbara Hendricks (born 1948), operatic soprano and concert singer who has settled in Switzerland; Caterina Jarboro (1898–1986), pioneering African-American opera singer who performed the title role in Aida in 1933; Betty Jones (1930–2019), operatic spinto soprano who performed in the 1970s; Isola Jones (born 1949), mezzo-soprano opera ...
Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953) [1] was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. Her death from cancer, at the height of her ...