How to Use countertenor in a Sentence

countertenor

noun

• The viol consort and the countertenor voice were once relics of the past.
  — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2019
• The arias for Dionysus, a countertenor role, are eerie tours de force.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
• The teachers were trying to treat me as a countertenor.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022
• And the countertenor Iestyn Davies, has managed to play both the Met and Broadway this season.
  — Charles Passy, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
• One of the most recent is by the engaging French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2020
• The countertenors bear the musical legacy of the castrati, says Mr. Davies.
  — Alexandra Wolfe, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
• Unnoticed by me was the fact that Tim was a countertenor, and I a bargain basement bass.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 16 June 2020
• The four male voices are countertenor, tenor, baritone and bass; and the one female voice is a soprano.
  — Mike Giuliano, baltimoresun.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• Holiday is a countertenor with a love for opera, and his high range talents shocked the judges, three of whom turned (Blake Sheldon was the odd one out).
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2020
• The countertenor double feels like the kind of idea that gets embraced at a brainstorming session.
  — New York Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• As the group began its final performance of the day, countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo kicked off the show from the bed of the truck.
  — Robert Bumsted, Star Tribune, 13 Oct. 2020
• Seven arias pierce the performance, sung onstage by the countertenor Iestyn Davies.
  — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 14 Dec. 2017
• The countertenor Kangmin Justin Kim made a headstrong Nero, with his wildly punkish blond hair and a wiry physique always coiled and ready to pounce.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2017
• His countertenor voice and phrasing—both mellifluous and frayed around the edges—convey anguish and hope.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2022
• And Washington is our modern Versailles, just as sick as the palace of the French royals but without the rouge and powdered wigs and countertenors.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
• Even connoisseurs argue over the true countertenor's range.
  — Rick Schultz, latimes.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• But many contemporary composers, like Philip Glass and Thomas Ades, are making use of countertenors as well.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2019
• For a countertenor, Orliński has a voice that does not go especially high.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 15 July 2019
• David Daniels arrived at the University of Michigan highly regarded as one of the great countertenor opera singers of his time.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2020
• Daniel Bubeck was a rather hooty version of a countertenor — and there’s little evidence that Bach had his alto solos sung by falsettists, as opposed to boys.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 1 May 2023
• This was the brainchild of the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, who accompanied squads of players in more than eighty concerts across the five boroughs.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 30 Nov. 2020
• The idea behind this recital from a noted countertenor and a lutenist is simple: Shakespeare’s words, set to music, interspersed with readings from the playwright, given by the actor Simon Jones.
  — David Allen, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
• Ms. Amereau is herself something of a welcome throwback at a time when countertenors have all but displaced contraltos in early music.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2017
• The clarion-voice countertenor John Holiday breaks your heart as John Blue, a transgender man embraced by this new family.
  — Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2017
• Indeed, only by sticking to a film format could the lightweight company have secured a star as luminous as countertenor Bejun Mehta, brimming with pathos in the lead role.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• The one disappointment was Biraj Barkakaty as the third Israelite, whose smallish countertenor failed to project adequately over the orchestra.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• Nicholas Garza gave Rinaldo a mostly mellow countertenor.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2020
• Mary of Clopas, a role originally sung by a castrato (an adult male whose boyhood high voice had been preserved by castration), was portrayed by Daniel Bubeck with a muffled, hooty countertenor.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2021
• As Song, Kangmin Justin Kim used his versatile countertenor to trace his character’s development from meek to forceful.
  — Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2022
• Anthony Roth Costanzo, acclaimed countertenor with the Metropolitan Opera, hopped into the bed of the pickup with a microphone.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 29 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024