On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:23 PM, John Howell wrote:
Our son is a countertenor, otherwise (and in spite of the drift of the spelling, which also changes over time) known as a male alto (soprano, actually, when he was with Chanticleer), which no longer means "against the tenor," and in France is more likely to be called "Haut-Contre."
Hmm, in my mind "haut-contre" and "countertenor" are not the same thing at all. Perhaps not very scientific, but to me a "haut-contre" is a singer who sings like Jean-Paul Fouchecourt, which is definitely not the same sound as a countertenor.
Aside from the haut-contre repertoire in French baroque opera, a haut- contre voice is what I want to hear for the high tenor solo in Carmina burana.
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