At 9:06 PM -0700 6/7/07, Mark D Lew wrote:
Hmm, in my mind "haut-contre" and "countertenor" are not the same thing at all.
Quite right. The former is a voice which simply lies higher than the average tenor. I've had a couple of students with that kind of voice, and judging by the sound I've always assumed that Russell Oberlin was an haut-contre. The latter is a highly developed falsetto. But I didn't think I needed to go into that much detail.
Aside from the haut-contre repertoire in French baroque opera, a haut-contre voice is what I want to hear for the high tenor solo in Carmina burana.
Interesting. When we did it the soloist was a baritone, but with a good and flexible falsetto.
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