Less familiar, however, is the countertenor - a male singer with a range above the tenor who can sing as high as a soprano. Stories about countertenors refer to theirs as "the rarest of all voice ...

Jakub Józef Orliński, the magnificently gifted Polish countertenor, was singing Ottone’s long and pain-ridden scene from Monteverdi’s opera “The Coronation of Poppea,” in which the ...