Well, last summer I heard Michael Manicaci, who lists himself as "male
soprano", sing an easily lofted and poised high c that many sopranos would
envy (I'll bet he has range above that). His phrasing and tone in Handel's
Imeneo -- and Orlando the summer before -- were both stunning and beyond
reproach. The Imeneo may be heard in a live broadcast on NPR (today in my
neighborhood -- maybe yours too).
Dan Carno
At 05:06 AM 7/22/2005, you wrote:
Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>That said, however, the question of whether a countertenor may
>legitimately sing a given alto line (let's leave the sopranos out of
>it--I never heard of a countertenor who could hit a C above the treble
>clef and live to tell about it) is entirely a matter of what would have
>been considered appropriate at the time and place that the music was
>created.
A friend of mine at college (Selwyn, Cambridge, England) had a reliable
top C. He auditioned for a choral scholarship at King's College, but
despite being amazed, Boris Ord turned him down, possibly because his
sight reading was not quite good enough. Also the voice was not
particularly appropriate for the job: the quality in the alto range was
good, but not exceptional, and King's has boys for trebles.
--
Ken Moore
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