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Sopranist

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A sopranist (also, sopranista or male soprano) is a male singer who is able to sing in the vocal tessitura of a soprano usually through the use of falsetto vocal production. [1]

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Adam Lopez

Adam Lopez Costa (born 26 August 1975), billed as Adam Lopez, is an Australian pop musician, vocal coach, and session vocalist.

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Alfred Deller

Alfred George Deller, CBE (31 May 1912 – 16 July 1979), was an English singer and one of the main figures in popularising the return of the countertenor voice in Renaissance and Baroque music during the 20th century.

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Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, Alfred Garrievich Shnitke; November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Soviet and German composer.

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Angelo Manzotti

Angelo Manzotti is an Italian countertenor or sopranist born in 1971 in Marmirolo, Italy.

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Aris Christofellis

Aris Christofellis (Άρης Χριστοφέλλης; born 5 February 1960) is a Greek sopranist (male soprano) and musicologist.

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Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist.

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Boy soprano

A boy soprano is a young male singer with an unchanged voice in the soprano range.

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Brian Charles Rooney

Brian Charles Rooney is an American actor and singer.

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C (musical note)

C (Do, Do, C) is the first note of the C major scale, the third note of the A minor scale (the relative minor of C major), and the fourth note (F, A, B, C) of the Guidonian hand, commonly pitched around 261.63 Hz.

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Castrato

A castrato (Italian, plural: castrati) is a type of classical male singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto.

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Choir

A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.

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Contralto

A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.

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Countertenor

A countertenor (also contra tenor) is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equivalent to that of the female contralto or mezzo-soprano voice types, generally extending from around G3 to D5 or E5, although a sopranist (a specific kind of countertenor) may match the soprano's range of around C4 to C6.

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David Daniels (countertenor)

David Daniels (born 12 March 1966) is an American countertenor.

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David Hansen (countertenor)

David Hansen (born 6 October 1981) is an Australian countertenor.

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Death in Venice (opera)

Death in Venice is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, his last.

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Edson Cordeiro

Edson Cordeiro (born February 9, 1967) is a sopranist countertenor and pop and jazz singer.

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Endocrine system

The endocrine system is a chemical messenger system consisting of hormones, the group of glands of an organism that carry those hormones directly into the circulatory system to be carried towards distant target organs, and the feedback loops of homeostasis that the hormones drive.

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Falsetto

Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.

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Farinelli

Farinelli (24 January 170516 September 1782), was the stage name of Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola Broschi, celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.

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Historia von D. Johann Fausten (opera)

Historia von D. Johann Fausten is an opera by the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998) in three acts, with introduction and epilogue to the German libretto by Jörg Morgener (Jürgen Köchel) and Alfred Schnittke after the anonymous prose book of the same name (published by Johannes Spies in 1587).

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James Bowman (countertenor)

James Thomas Bowman CBE (born 6 November 1941 in Oxford, England) is an English countertenor.

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Jochen Kowalski

Jochen Kowalski (born 30 January 1954) is a German alto or mezzo countertenor, noted for his very rich timbre.

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Larynx

The larynx, commonly called the voice box, is an organ in the top of the neck of tetrapods involved in breathing, producing sound, and protecting the trachea against food aspiration.

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Mephistopheles

Mephistopheles (also Mephistophilus, Mephostopheles, Mephistophilis, Mephisto, Mephastophilis, and other variants) is a demon featured in German folklore.

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Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano or mezzo (meaning "half soprano") is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range lies between the soprano and the contralto voice types.

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Michael Maniaci

Michael Maniaci (born May 3, 1976) is an American opera singer.

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Modal voice

Modal voice is the vocal register used most frequently in speech and singing in most languages.

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Radu Marian

Radu Marian (born in 1977) is a Romanian/Moldovan male soprano or sopranist.

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Robert Crowe (singer)

Robert William Crowe is an American operatic sopranist (male soprano) and musicologist.

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Scientific pitch notation

Scientific pitch notation (or SPN, also known as American Standard Pitch Notation (ASPN) and International Pitch Notation (IPN)) is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave.

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Simone Bartolini

Simone Bartolini is an Italian sopranist.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Superius

In early vocal music, Superius is the Latin-derived name given to the highest voice-part.

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Tessitura

In music, tessitura (pl. tessiture, "texture") is the most esthetically acceptable and comfortable vocal range for a given singer or, less frequently, musical instrument; the range in which a given type of voice presents its best-sounding (or characteristic) timbre.

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Tomotaka Okamoto (singer)

is a Japanese sopranist.

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Vitas

Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachov (Vitaly Vladasovich Grachyov; born 19 February 1979), known professionally as Vitas (ˈvʲitəs), is a Russian singer.

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Vocal range

Vocal range is the measure of the breadth of pitches that a human voice can phonate.

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Voice type

A voice type classifies a singing voice by vocal range, vocal weight, tessitura, vocal timbre, vocal transition points (passaggia) like breaks and lifts, and vocal register.

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Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley

Vyatcheslav Kagan-Paley, also known as Slava ("Слава" Каган-Палей), is a Belarusian countertenor, male alto and baritone.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopranist

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