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	Sopranista - Definition, explanation
		Distinct from a countertenor, who trains himself to use the whole of the vocal cords to produce a fuller tone, the sopranista uses less of the thick part of the vocal cords - thereby allowing access to an extremely high range.
		Sopranistas are very rare, and do not have the power of voice which a castrato would have had.
		A famous sopranista from earlier times was Giovan Battista Velluti, for whom Rossini wrote the role of Arsace in Aureliano in Palmir.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/so/sopranista.php (278 words)

	sopranista (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A sopranista is a male singer who sings music written in the soprano range.
		Sopranistas are very rare, and do not have the power of voice which a castrato would have had.
		A famous sopranista from earlier times was Giovan Battista Velluti, for whom Rossini wrote the role of Arsace in Aureliano in Palmir.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /sopranista.html (212 words)

	Soprano article - Soprano Vocal ranges Mezzo-soprano Alto Sopranista Countertenor Alto - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In music, a soprano is a singer with a voice ranging approximately from middle C to the A a thirteenth above middle C (above the treble clef).
		Male singers whose voices have not changed are known either as "boy sopranos" or, in the Anglican and English Catholic traditions, as trebles.
		Historically women were not allowed to sing in the Church, so the soprano roles were given to young boys, and later to castrati, who were men whose larynxes had been fixed in a pre-adolescent state through the process of castration.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Soprano (330 words)

	Sopranista -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A sopranista is a male singer who sings music written in the (A female singer) soprano (Click link for more info and facts about vocal range) vocal range.
		There is a large body of music for male soprano written when it was common to use a (A male singer who was castrated before puberty and retains a soprano or alto voice) castrato - a voice type which, for all intents and purposes, no longer exists.
		A famous sopranista from earlier times was Giovan Battista Velluti, for whom (Italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868)) Rossini wrote the role of Arsace in Aureliano in Palmir.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/sopranista.htm (168 words)

	New York Film and Video Festival
		Il Sopranista / The Sopranist is a film concerning Faith and Opera.
		Il Sopranista / The Sopranist is set in Italy, in the present-days.
		It's a completely Italian film and it shows a culture that is slowly vanishing.
	www.nyfilmvideo.com /2005/nyapril2005/sopranista (83 words)

	Castrato (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There have also been reported cases of so-called "natural castrati" who were born with hormonal disorders that reproduce the above "desired" effects of castration without the surgeon's knife.
		Some uncastrated male singers are able to use their voices up into the soprano register, apparently without the use of the falsetto voice, and are known as sopranistas.
		Sopranistas are also able to perform some music which was written for castrati, and composers such as Rossini wrote parts specifically for sopranista.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/c/ca/castrato.html (392 words)

	Sopranista - ArtPolitic Encyclopedia of Politics : Information Portal
		A sopranista is a male singer who uses special vocal techniques to perform music written in the soprano range.
		These techniques apparently require the use of only of a part of the vocal chords, and do not use the falsetto voice.
		There is a quite large body of music written for male soprano, though this was written when it was common to use the services of a castrato.
	www.artpolitic.org /infopedia/so/Sopranista.html (182 words)

	Learn more about Soprano in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Boy singers whose voices have not changed are known either as "boy sopranos" or, in the Anglican and English Catholic traditions, as trebles.
		More generally, a soprano is the highest member of a group of similar instruments (for example, the soprano saxophone).
		The rivalry between the respective fans of Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi, for example, was one of the most famous of all opera (see anecdotes in La Tosca article).
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/so/soprano.html (345 words)

	Male soprano & countertenor, Aris Christofellis-Listen here (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His speciality is the ornamentation of the operatic music written for the castrati in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
		Aris is a sopranist or 'sopranista', a countertenor who sings in the high soprano.
		As the first male soprano to be heard in opera in over a hundred years, he is the originator of this voice type in the modern era; but whereas the previous operatic male sopranos were castrati, Aris is a countertenor using an exceptional falsetto.
	jan-billington.com /christofellis (372 words)

	Countertenor - TheBestLinks.com - Castrato, Opera, Pop music, Rock and roll, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The term countertenor is also used much less frequently to mean a normal male tenor who uses some falsetto at the very top of his range.
		It is thought that sopranistas also use falsetto, sometimes called 'unsupported falsetto', (there is much speculation over this unusual voice type).
		The sopranista can achieve a much higher range that the Countertenor.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Countertenor.html (933 words)

	The Lonely Pamphleteer Review
		Lasalandra indicated that Brooke Shields also discusses this illness in a book soon to be published.
		LPR met Italian director Mauro John Capece, whose short film Il Sopranista will be screened May 2nd at 8.10 p.m.
		LPR also met Australian writer, actor, singer and Nascar racer George Elliot at the festival opening.
	lonelypamphleteer.com /NYIIFF2005.asp (325 words)

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