Sopranista

A sopranista is a male singer who sings music written in the soprano vocal range. 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. One of the terms for this is the unsupported falsetto voice. (There is still some speculation over this voice type's true technique.)

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There is a large body of music for male soprano written when it was common to use a castrato - a voice type which, for all intents and purposes, no longer exists. Sopranistas are very rare, and do not have the power of voice which a castrato would have had.

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Present day sopranistas include:

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• Tomotaka Okamoto
• Simone Bartolini
• Jorge Cano
• Ouatu Florin Cezar
• Aris Christofellis
• Philippe Jaroussky
• Radu Marian
• Javier Medina
• Angelo Manzotti
• J?rg Waschinski
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