A Janesville man who was sent to the Royal Academy of Music in London on proceeds from a benefit concert has become the youngest singer—and only countertenor—to win a prestigious singing contest. In ...

Opera star Anthony Roth Costanzo takes us through a day in the life of a countertenor as he prepares for an evening performance at the Met. The Grammy-winning vocalist, starring in Philip Glass’s ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — His is the rarest of voices—a male who can sing in a register normally reserved for female sopranos. Chuanyuan Liu is a countertenor and is one of fewer than ten Asian countertenors ...

NEW YORK -- Jordan Rutter-Covatto is professional countertenor based in New York City. People hearing him perform for the first time are sometimes taken by surprise, because his singing voice sounds ...

Three Countertenors Ring in L.A. Opera's 'Giulio Cesare' When one listens to a countertenor singing, it can be a surreal, albeit hair-raisingly beautiful experience. A countertenor is a male alto ...

JAKUB JOZEF ORLINSKI: (Singing in Italian). Jakub Jozef Orlinski says he was an active kid growing up in Poland, like... ORLINSKI: Rollerblading in a very extreme way in skate parks - I did all those ...

Despite being one of the first and oldest forms of popular music, opera sometimes struggles to connect with 21st century audiences. However, Anthony Roth Costanzo is breaking down the genre's stodgy ...

Nigel Perrin, who has died aged 76, was an agile countertenor with a beautiful clean line and an infectious personality who did much to define the character, sound and style of the King’s Singers in ...

In this dreary COVID-19 winter, there are some high points — and high notes — available to people cooped up at home. The documentary “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart,” which premiered on ...

If you haven’t heard of the Renaissance singing group Ampersand, you’re in good company. The cohort of six professional singers in their mid-thirties is one of the few in Vermont to specialize in ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.