Andreas Scholl, regarded as one of the world’s finest countertenor singers, performs at Bates at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The performance opens ...

The age of the countertenor dawned several seasons back, with the call for authenticity in early-music performances and the arrival of the likes of David Daniels and Brian Asawa. These ...

It's hard to think of a singer of any type who performs with more color and clarity than Andreas Scholl. The Times of London has called the German countertenor a "storyteller supreme, daring his ...

“In principle I’m a singer. I don’t define myself as a countertenor. I'm a musician and then I’m a singer.” The celebrated German countertenor Andreas Scholl says his distinctive, otherworldly high ...

A single voice takes on a phalanx of fiercely trained soldiers of song. For many still, that lone figure, though a man, sounds like a woman, while the massed chorus he meets on the field of honor ...

Right now there are eight or nine world-class countertenors, more than at any time since Handel’s heyday–and in Handel’s heyday, in the mid-18th century, they weren’t countertenors in the modern sense ...

The German countertenor Andreas Scholl boasts a perfect complement of skills for singing the music of Purcell: fluid dynamic control, elegantly flawless diction, and vocal tone that can sound ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. No performer of classical music has as limited a home territory as the counter-tenor. From a repertoire with a ...

Andreas Scholl is nearly fifty, and embarking on a new career as a conductor; Iestyn Davies is currently packing them in with his incarnation of the castrato Farinelli at a West End theatre. Ten years ...

Andreas Scholl is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range, specialising in Baroque music. Born into a family of singers, Scholl was enrolled at the age of seven into the ...