It's interesting that they slightly prefer deep voices, and perhaps more interesting still that they like women tending towards the contralto.
The first of the three again revealed Mahler's superstition: beginning as a song cycle (to Chinese poems in German translations), it grew into "A Symphony for Tenor, Baritone (or Contralto) and Orchestra".
Her pure vocal quality, richness of tone, and tremendous range made her, in the opinion of many, the world's greatest contralto.
She was thereafter established as the preeminent contralto in both concert and opera on the American stage and perhaps in the world.
Said to have had a fine contralto voice, Cushman eventually was forced to abandon opera when her voice failed her.
Although plain, she was a popular figure, with a fine contralto singing voice and great linguistic ability.
April 22, 1912 Higher Walton, England October 8, 1953 London, England Kathleen Ferrier, (born April 22, 1912, Higher Walton, Lancashire, Eng. died Oct. 8, 1953, London) contralto who was one of the most widely beloved British singers of her day.
The contralto parts in Britten's Spring Symphony and the canticle Abraham and Isaac were written for her, as was Sir Arthur Bliss's scena The Enchantress.
Marian Anderson, the famed African American contralto, with the support of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, was granted permission by the Department of the Interior to perform at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Any barriers between the sacred and the sensual that Aretha Franklin may have left standing were blown away by Mavis Staples and her thrilling contralto.
His contralto range was the result of a hereditary hormone deficiency that also prevented him from experiencing puberty and growing taller than 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in); he was in his 30s before he grew about 20 cm (8 in) taller.
