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	Breeches role - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role) is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing (breeches being tight-fitting knee-length pants, the standard male garment at the time breeches roles were introduced).
		The most common kind of breeches role in the 17th century is one where a woman character puts on male disguise in order to overcome some obstacle to marrying her lover.
		Donizetti's Anna Bolena: the role of "Smeton" is sung by a mezzo-soprano
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pants_role (1163 words)

	homepage kordula knaus: projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A female singer singing a male role (also called trouser role) is one of the strangest realities of the art form opera, which does not exist in the same way within other performance arts.
		It is all the more astonishing that the phenomenon of the trouser role has hardly been taken up by research, although in the last decades corporeality, performance, gender and role models have played a significant role within musicology (similar to other disciplines within the humanities).
		First, the question should be answered, why many trouser roles as well as castrato roles were transposed and sung by male voices in performances of the 20th century.
	www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at /staff/knaus/project.html (278 words)

	Drag (clothing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In overwhelmingly male-dominated societies, where active roles were reserved to men, a woman might dress as a man under the pressures of her dramatic predicament.
		In Baroque opera, where soprano roles for men were sung by castrati, Handel's Alcina disguises herself as a man to save her lover, a male soprano: contemporary audiences were not the least confused.
		In Romantic opera, certain roles of young boys were written for alto and soprano voices and acted by women en travestie (in English, in "trouser roles") [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drag_(clothing) (1416 words)

	Alphabetical list of Opera Roles P - Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		2) Tenor role in Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers.
		Tenor role in Moussorgsky's Boris Godunov and baritone role in Dvorak's Dimitrij.
		3) Soprano role in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba.
	www.bohemianopera.com /roles_pz.htm (1634 words)

	Alphabetical list of Opera Roles A - F
		Tenor role in in Gluck's and Lully's Alceste.
		Tenor role in Puccini's and Auber's Manon Lescaut.
		2) Soprano role in Offenbach's Orphée aux Enfers.
	www.bohemianopera.com /roles_af.htm (1895 words)

	United States Marine Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In World War I, the battle-tested, veteran Marines served a central role in the U.S. entry into the conflict, and at the Battle of Belleau Wood, Marine units were in the front, earning the Marines a reputation as the "First to Fight".
		World War II In World War II, the Marines played a central role in the Pacific War, and the war saw the expansion of the Corps from two brigades to two corps with six divisions and five air wings with 132 squadrons.
		Marines "blouse" their boots, that is, they roll the cuffs of their trousers back inside and tighten them over the boots with an elastic cord or spring known as a boot band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps (9570 words)

	Georgia A. Duan / Academic / Sophomore Year
		With the decline of the castrati, however, arose the prominence and status of the soprano and mezzo soprano on stage in the consequent replacement of the high voice of a male with that of a female.
		The switch from skirts and dresses that masked the shape of a woman's legs to trousers, which actually accentuated a woman's curves was a scandal in itself, though audiences were enthralled with such indignity.
		Although Cherubino, the travesti role in W. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro was intentionally cast for a female singer, the manner in which he is portrayed in the opera critiques the entire practice of transvestism on stage.
	www.stanford.edu /~georgiad/academic/soph.html (2028 words)

	jennifer rivera, mezzo-soprano \| press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jennifer Rivera was a triumph in the pants role (her pants were red plaid).
		The role was actually written for a contralto, and Ms, Rivera's lower tones were authentic.
		The young mezzo soprano is physically perfect for the role: She has an inner joy that produces the wide-eyed gasps, incorrigible snickers, and wiry body movements an "enfant terrible" deserves.
	www.jenniferrivera.com /press.html (1450 words)

	Roles for Mezzo Sopranos quiz -- free game
		The greatest of all mezzo roles, this gypsy is torn between love and complete independence.
		This role demands that the singer wear a beard, but it's not a trouser role.
		Although she gets to look very sexy on stage and she does save the tenor's life, this girl has no aria of her own.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=59298 (297 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Virtuosity is needed for all four leads (even the bass role, though brief, has a fine, challenging aria and must hold the bottom steady in ensembles), with huge ranges and a great gift for fast coloratura.
		In the pivotal role of Elena, loved by King James V, betrothed to Rodrigo and in love with Malcolm, soprano Ruth Ann Swenson met the role fearlessly.
		He approached the role, however, as if it were written by Mascagni, often bulldozing his way through, going for huge volume and, in general, indulging himself.
	www.classicstoday.com /Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.asp?Acrion=User&ID=316 (674 words)

	Who wears the pants in this opera? - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		It is a classic "trouser role" -- a male character intended to be sung by a woman.
		While it might be argued that Mozart's choice of soprano for the teen was meant to suggest his voice hadn't changed, trouser roles are created for musical reasons.
		He's keen to perform other trouser roles, such as the composer in "Ariadne auf Naxos," Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier" and roles for castrato in Mozart's "Idomeneo" and "La Clemenza di Tito." Castrati were men who underwent surgery as children to prevent male hormones from deepening their voices, a practice that ended in the 19th century.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/arts/s_270950.html (496 words)

	Classical Music :: The Classical Source :: Chelsea Opera La Wally :: Classical Music
		That comes very near the end of Act 1, which is not the strongest act, despite the aria and the powerful duet leading in to it between Wally and Gellner, to whom Wally’s father has promised her in marriage.
		It’s rather slow to start, and the little song sung by Wally’s friend Walter (a ’trouser’ role) is not tuneful enough for a folksong and lacks the ’dignity’ of an aria.
		The role of Wally is not an easy one, but Alwyn Mellor rose to the challenge.
	www.classicalsource.com /db_control/db_concert_review.php?id=1298 (529 words)

	U-Daily News - STAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		One of the great pleasures of opera is hearing a star in a role she has made her own — a star in a star part.
		It was the 51st time Gruber has sung the role, and she inhabits the part in every nuance and every gesture, every note and every trill.
		When DeMain discovered she had once sung the role in an AVA production, she was cast as the Countess in the final performance on Sunday.
	u.dailynews.com /Stories/0,1413,211~23542~2664061,00.html (674 words)

	Humor Hangout--A humor column for readers with taste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		But my boss is a sweet person and cooed, “Ooooh,” when she finally had her attention drawn by her furious subordinate to the appalling state of the latter's trousers.
		I am sure my boss has lost trousers at some point in her working life, most of which has been spent in Wyoming.
		They play a significant role in our lives, as does breeding, particularly among upright Asiatics although there are problems with a lack of vigor, according to my research on this topic.
	humorhangout.blogspot.com (2825 words)

	Trouser
		Tommy Skanks), professional snowboarder, drummer, and Trouser Pilot to find out just what the hell was going on with his latest side project.
		But though trouser downsizing affects virtually all Americans, the hardest hit are those in the...
		Trouser Press was a rock and roll magazine started in 1974 by editor/publisher Ira Robbins.
	shockprotection.shutshock.com /trouser (790 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Haydn's 'Speziale': Quite a Concoction
		It is a charming little piece of fluff, deeply imbued with Haydn's wit and his gift for lilting melodies, with well-defined characters and a plot that is silly but lively.
		It is neatly developed, with no chorus and only four characters: two tenors and two sopranos (one of them, actually a high mezzo-soprano, in a trouser role).
		It opens with an aria, well-sung by Hudspeth, that complains about an apprentice apothecary's job, much like Leporello's opening aria in "Don Giovanni." The trouser role of Volpino reminds one of Cherubino in "The Marriage of Figaro" and the young lovers' use of disguises will call "Cosi Fan Tutte" to mind.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A49506-2003Oct5?language=printer (367 words)

	Vivica Genaux: Reviews
		Dressed in a simple, long fl mourning coat, fl trousers and dress shirt, the only touch of dishevelment a carelessly untied bow tie, Orfeo is ready to brave the furies of hell for his love.”
		Tall and slim, she excels at trouser roles and her agile voice has a wide variety of dramatic colors.
		Orfeo is a physically demanding part – almost two hours of nearly uninterrupted singing, and it’s a role whose entire drama is entrusted to that one voice.
	www.ffaire.com /genaux/orfeo-rev.html (853 words)

	Buddug Verona James
		She created the role of Faranesi in Gerald Barry's Intelligence Park for Opera Factory at the Almeida - recorded for BBC.
		She has recorded the roles of Rosina, Maddalena, Mercedes and Second Lady for Operavox Cartoons conducted by Wyn Davies.
		In August of 2001 Buddug and her sister Eirian were awarded the highest accolade of the White Robe at the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales at Denbigh.
	www.concertartist.info /bio/JAM001.html (419 words)

	Marie Podvalova [CF]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		These recordings of standard Czech operatic fare are a wonderful testimony to her, as they were made when she was in her vocal prime at the start of the 1950s.
		She made the Smetana roles her own (Milada in Dalibor and the title role of Libue), but Fibich’s árka (again the title role) became her trademark, and she was lucky to have worked under those great Czech opera and recording conductors Talich, Chalabala and Krombholc.
		Some of the supporting roles featuring in duets or other ensembles are unmemorable, in Dalibor there are moments of ‘ghostly’ anticipations of entries after a pause which have either appeared or slipped through the net in the digital transfer, and some of the orchestral playing may not always be up to standard.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2003/Jan03/Podvalova.htm (387 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: She's No Lady -- She's Our Prima Donna!
		Each line was treated to the voice it required for its ultimate effect, whether that effect was intended to elicit screams of laughter, or hushed, surprised tears, as in the death scene.
		It was in seeing Ludlam (many, many times in many roles, until his death of AIDS in 1987) that perhaps I found the courage to invite my own "inner diva" out of the closet.
		The "gender correctness" of a man singing a role intended for a trouser-clad woman may not always be an improvement; indeed, it may sometimes negate the composer's point in writing a male role for a female singer.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/258.html (2098 words)

	ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network
		The principal roles were designed for three of the early nineteenth-century's foremost virtuosi, and Mayr laid the score's most fearsome technical demands on their shoulders.
		Much of the role lies within a lyric soprano's grasp, but Ginevra's penchant for tempestuous bravura calls for a Queen of the Night, in fact quoting that character's vengeance aria in the act one finale 'Le mie barbare vicende'.
		The role is taken by French coloratura Elisabeth Vidal, whose short shrift from international record companies will hopefully be corrected in the wake of this performance.
	www.concertonet.com /scripts/cd.php?ID_cd=665 (1384 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Opera
		This new role remained popular from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century.
		The nineteenth century witnessed an increasing number of female singers in male roles, who either played the kind of heroic "armor roles" once the province of castrati or young romantic heroes.
		In the latter, Semiramide, Queen of Babylon, falls in love with the mezzo-soprano Arsace, commander of her army and also, indeed, her long-lost son by Nino, the husband she had conspired to murder.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/opera,2.html (654 words)

	Gramophone - Features - The world's best classical music magazine
		But I think the castrato also entails having a chest register — so many of the heroic roles are written with generous use of the lower chest range — and that’s often a part of the countertenor range that sometimes isn’t as strong as it might be in a woman’s voice.
		There was more of an androgynous feel I think, because the masculine roles, while they were very manly and heroic, also had an elegance to them.
		And also the fact that Rossini, when he was writing when there were no more castratos, wrote the same type of role that would have been written for a castrato for mezzo soprano or for contralto.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /interviews_detail.asp?id=1025&f=1024 (416 words)

	Women counted on to hit all the right notes \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		When Handel's “Julius Caesar in Egypt” premiered in London in 1724, the title role was taken by the Italian castrato Senesino, Handel's gelded star, who was so popular that he only needed one name, like contemporary musical luminaries Madonna and Nelly.
		Now that castrati are as extinct as dodo birds, baroque opera relies on female singers and countertenors (men who achieve their high register by singing in falsetto).
		The title role in Handel's “Ariodante.” Giovanni Carestini – another anatomically altered favorite of Handel's, known for his vocal pyrotechnics – starred in the 1735 London premiere.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060414/news_1c14trouser.html (354 words)

	Vivica Genaux: Reviews
		Saturday, her performance in the title role of Handel’s Arminio demonstrated why.
		If the most admired pairing in these roles in recent decades was Beverly Sills and the late Tatiana Troyanos for the Boston Opera in the mid-1970s, surely Genaux and Jo are their equals.
		Genaux is known to the Met only as Rosina, which is too bad; it is a role she at least co-owns (with Kasarova), but it does not give her opportunity to show her immense talents as a dramatic actress.”
	www.ffaire.com /genaux/genaux5b.html (1505 words)

	Opera Recordings: Strauss, Beethoven sets are perfection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		They are on EMI Classics' new Legends series CD reissue, with the bonus of a DVD showing Schwarzkopf in her most famous operatic role of the Marschallin in Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier." This film of the first-act finale, made in London in 1961, finds the singer brimming with vocal and physical beauty.
		No one has expressed this character's realization and acceptance of oncoming age more poignantly, and the scene with her teen lover, Octavian -- a trouser role strongly enacted by mezzo-soprano Hertha Topper -- probes the emotions of the end of an affair.
		In the title role, Karita Mattila makes it credible that she can take on "man's work" and that the jailor's daughter might prefer this pretended boy to her local suitor.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04240/368267.stm (729 words)

	Der Rosenkavalier @ Royal Opera House : opera review
		In the role of the Feldmarschallin, Dame Felicity Lott made a welcome return to this theatre in her signature role.
		Her vocal resources in the ensemble scenes are not what they were, but she gave more power to her solo passages and especially to the Act I monologue.
		Although not tall, she gave the role the requisite boyish air of a trouser role.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/rosenkavalier-2.htm (721 words)

	e: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Serse's discovery of delight and subsequent fall into the uncertainties of love and its despair remain in the memory.
		A natural trouser-role actress, she captured the feel of a young man torn between artistic purity and the first stirrings of romantic passion.
		The opera singer in Kimberly Barber is noticeable: the ability to quickly slip into a role, imbuing each character of a song with unfailing sensitivity for text content and compositional refinement, all were played out to perfection.
	www.barber.de /e_press.htm (1056 words)

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