contralto

How To Use contralto In A Sentence

• The results was that he was unable to see anything on the platform, except just nine sopranos and nine contraltos at each corner.
• Brahms wrote three piano rhapsodies as well as the Alto Rhapsody for contralto, male chorus, and orchestra.
• Julia Fordham sings in a smoky contralto that can also sweep upward to grab those higher tones when needed.
• And that doesn't mean that anything other than time and perseverance will turn your top lyric soprano into a belting contralto, but it is possible.
• It exists on a continuum with her other work in its carefully constructed ruminations on love bathed in her soaring contralto.
• Their legacy is a series of low coloratura contralto roles which serve to add variety and depth to the operas.
• Comic roles are skilfully handled by Massenet and come across well: Polish contralto Ewa Podles mustered grim regal splendour as the stepmother, with Madeleine Pierard and Kai Rüütel – both Jette Parker Young Artists – lively as the indistinguishably stupid sisters. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
• The choir and orchestra will be joined by four young soloists - soprano Rebecca Outram, contralto Alexandra Gibson, tenor David Brown and bass James Gower.
• I was about to play by myself, knowing that I alone could hear the contralto's aria and the accompaniment in my head.
• His writing for contralto or mezzo-soprano, to a text by Theocritus, is surely a masterpiece.