In this blog post, we’ll explore 68 breathtaking contralto songs that attract your heart and soul. As a music enthusiast and researcher, I’ve carefully curated this list to include the most moving and ...

We listen back to an interview with Sarah Hennies, the composer of a piece called “Contralto.” It’s part music, part documentary, and it features the voices of transgender women. This transcript was ...

Avery Amereau was in the midst of an important day in New York City when Pasatiempo spoke with her by phone in early December. She was looking forward to her upcoming solo appearances with the Santa ...

“Oh là là! I’m actually living my dream,” said conductor and contralto Nathalie Stutzmann. “My two biggest goals in life were to be a singer and a conductor, and I am just living my dream.” Nathalie ...

Nathalie Stutzmann releases a new Erato recording of Baroque arias written for her voice-type: 'Contralto'. Conducting her orchestra, Orfeo 55, she explores arias written for some of the star ...

With her molten chest voice and commanding presence, Ms. Podles, a galvanizing Polish opera singer, developed a cult following. By Zachary Woolfe Ewa Podles, the Polish contralto whose darkly molten, ...

The contralto singer Jean Allister was as much at home on the concert platform as on the operatic stage, and in modern music as much as the classics. She sang at the Proms (1959-70, the Three Choirs ...

Once they were everywhere, mainstays of all the choral societies in the land, rousing us to action or soothing us with maternal balm. But now the contralto only seems to exist in the realms of the old ...

"This idea of the so-called female voice does not exist. A female voice is the voice of a person who is female," said Sarah Hennies, composer of "Contralto." "Contralto," is a groundbreaking work of ...

Celebrated contralto Maureen Forrester, who toured the globe giving concert tours and championed Canadian composers, has died at the age of 79. Her daughter, Gina Dineen, said the famed singer died ...

Manhattan playgoers last week saw Vickie (by S. M. Herzig; produced by Frank Mandel) do a bad job with a good idea. A satire on U.S. women’s war activities, it attacked the funny bone by way of the ...