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2 unusual facts about Voice type


Helga Dernesch

Her career has taken her through four successive phases: from mezzo-soprano to lyric soprano to dramatic soprano and after about 1980 back to mezzo again (see also Voice type).

Voice type

Except for a few very rare voices (such as the American male soprano Michael Maniaci or singers with a disorder such as Kallmann syndrome), singers called countertenors generally sing in the falsetto register, sometimes using their modal register for the lowest notes.


Félix Vieuille

Félix Vieuille (15 October 1872, Saujon – 28 February 1953, Saujon) was a French operatic bass who sang for more than four decades with the Opéra-Comique in Paris during the first half of the twentieth century.

Graeme Danby

Graeme Danby (born 23 May 1962 in Consett, County Durham, England) is an operatic bass who has performed at several of the world's leading opera houses, notably the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the English National Opera.

Richárd Erdős

Richárd Erdős (Brno, 18 May 1881 - Frankfurt, 9 June 1912) was a Jewish Hungarian bass opera singer who was father of the American children's author Richard Erdoes.

The Last Temptations

Paavo Ruotsalainen, Finnish farmer, leader of religious revival - bass


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