“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 ...

As buglers sound the solemn notes of taps and 21-gun salutes are fired, among those Americans who once sang patriotic tunes on Memorial Day was a San Diegan, the “world’s greatest contralto.” She was ...

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 ...

In an era before microphones and modern amplification, one voice reigned supreme – the contralto. With their rich, velvety low registers and powerful, penetrating tones, contralto singers were once ...

Last week we scaled the heights of the highest vocal range, the soprano. Today, let's take one step down the vocal ladder. In the opera house, we tend to call them mezzo-sopranos, but there are many ...

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 ...

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, ...

"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 ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...