In a Different Voice: Then and Now Winter 2025 Opera Course

Video Recording of 02/04/2025 Class

Countertenors: Then and Now

LINKS FOR COUNTERTENORS: THEN AND NOW

WHAT IS A COUNTERTENOR?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQjg50s2zPE  (8:47)

WHICH OF THESE COUNTERTENORS SINGS VIVALDI'S "NISI DOMINUS" THE BEST?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj4pkERsSWU (13:46)

ANDREAS SCHOLL

The Countertenor Voice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrab716ytxM (2:29)

RUSSELL OBERLIN

Explaining What Is a Countertenor and the Difference Between Falsetto and Countertenor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YgrPBTRjMk (3:15)

JAMES BOWMAN

Ruggiero singing "Sol Da Te Mio Amore" ("Only from you, my sweet love, does this heart find peace and comfort") from Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPa46zkrGbc (8:11)

Xerxes I admiring the shade of a plane tree and singing "Ombra Mai Fu" ("Never was a shade") from Handel's Xerxes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVLTOraUGJw (3:31)

Singing selections from the album "The Art of James Bowman"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rgExCKUCQs (9:09)

Singing Ptolemy's aria from Handel's Ptolemy, King of Egypt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2S_nbmFp-A (4:17)

Excerpts from 1979 Concert in Rome showing difference between Falsetto and Countertenor
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhRwQw_Sgkk (2:57)

ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO

NPR Interview with Anthony Ross Costanzo
www.npr.org/2019/10/07/767216524/after-nearly-losing-his-voice-to-cancer-anthony-roth-costanzo-takes-on-akhnaten?sc=ipad&f=1008 (42:00)

Interview: Living the Classical Life
www.youtube.com/watch?v=REg1aNx1Hdw (41:32)

Singing "Hymn to the Sun" from Philip Glass's Akhnaten
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JG33g_ELdeM (16:20)

Singing "Dove sei, amato bene?" ("O where are you, dearest beloved?") from Handel's Rodelinda, accompanied by Dr. Paul Kwak
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUzNVfiR-3A (4:34)

DAVID DANIELS

Xerxes I admiring the shade of a plane tree and singing "Ombra Mai Fu" ("Never was a shade") from Handel's Xerxes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1e49KLXNU (3:59)

Singing Henry Purcell's "Sweeter than Roses"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySXA9lP6yJE (3:18)

Talking about and singing "Cara sposa" ("Dear wife") from Handel's Rinaldo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ZEEVssXMk  (11:20)

Talking about the myth of Orpheus and Gluck's Orpheo ed Euridice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xltMzrnsDS0 (5:56)

IESTYN DAVIES

Singing "Dove sei, amato bene?"  ("O where are you, dearest beloved?") from Handel's Rodelinda
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxVZ2_bj4Ws (5:30)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWaItVHvqzA (5:28)

Singing Schubert's "Litanei" with Joseph Middleton (from new album)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=z73PXS830Nk 4:55)

Singing "Erbarme Dich Mein" ("Have mercy, my God") from JS Bach's St. Matthew's Passion
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsCf5XKatUE (6:02)

ALFRED DELLER

Portrait of a Voice Interview
www.youtube.com/watch?v=45H7boJQnxY (4:03)

Singing "Alma del gran Pompeo" ("Soul of great Pompei") from Handel's Giulio Cesare and "O thou tellest" from Handel's Messiah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=teTbE0pTtxc (9:29)

Singing Henry Purcell's "Music for a While"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAenKzFTxY (4:11)

Singing 7 Duets with his son, Countertenor Alfred Deller
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKbhODO_XDU (13:02)

PHILIPPE JAROUSSKY

Singing "Furibondo spira il vento" ("Furiously blows the wind and upsets sky and the earth") from Handel's Partenope
https://operavision.eu/feature/voice-types (2:35)

Singing a Vivaldi aria
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zQX2XqAE8c (9:28)

Singing John Dowland's "In Darkness Let Me Dwell" accompanied by Guitarist Thibaut Garcia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ_Nh-QXmAQ (3:50)

Singing French singer Barbara's "Septembre" accompanied by Guitarist Thibaut Garcia
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G23mRhZ2mW8 (3:33)

BEJUN MEHTA

The Life of Bejun Mehta (Conversation)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWSaMJLEybM (5:42)

Singing "Gia l'ebro mio ciglio" ("Already the eyelids, that sweet liquor, invites my eyelids to rest") from Handel's Orlando
www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQ2r1jRCiM (5:02)

Singing Handel's aria "Sento la Gioia" ("I feel the pleasure shine in my bosom")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyCdCyIetB4 (4:39)

Singing Handel's "I Will Magnify Thee"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM1NJg28wEg (4:06)

ARYEH NUSSBAUM COHEN

Concerts and Conversations – 2022
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmbhdtmBqzY (27:56)

Singing "Va tacito e nascosto" ("It must be tacit and hidden, when greedy is prey, the cunning Hunter")from Handel's Giulio Cesare
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZINKJvITrH4 (6:13)

Singing "Inhumano Fratel..Stille Amare" ("Inhumane brother, barbaric mother") from Handel's Tolomeo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q5ylOk-AvU (6:59)

Singing "Avinu Malkeinu"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHoRI1Vg7QA (3:17)

Quarantine Concert (unaccompanied)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsZ5OfWJd8c (33:13)

RUSSELL OBERLIN

Russell Oberlin in Recital
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oqdrrvh1ho (4:35)

Singing Handel's "But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kltsnq1QSMs (5:07)

Singing "O Thou that Tellest" from Handel's Messiah
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RszCtS5IMJ8 (5:48)

JAKUB JOZEF ORLINSKI

Singing "Vedro con mio diletto" ("I will see with joy, the soul of my soul") from Vivaldi's Il Giustino
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF4YXv6ZIuE (5:41)

Singing "Voi che udite il lament" ("Ye who hear my lament, have compassion for my pain") from Handel's Agrippina
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxcYfeWd3T8 (4:51)

Singing "Fiat pax"("Let there be peace in the world") from Zelenka, Laetatos som ZWV 90
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYK9f7YCM6M (3:25)

Singing duets with Michal Biel
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QYILgyPc68 (1:24)

ANDREAS SCHOLL

Singing Handel's "Music for a While"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enl3eBxuqxA (4:08)

Singing Rosano's "Stabat Mater"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6emEcoEZd-4 (34:23)

Singing "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger" accompanied by Edin Karamazov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBua7eLTBbQ (4:56)

Singing multiple selections from "The Glory of the Countertenor"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYEKJUTwZvk (15:56)