1. contralto - Noun
2. contralto - Adjective
3. contralto - Adjective Satellite
The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
the voice or singer performing this part; as, her voice is a contralto; she is a contralto.
Of or pertaining to a contralto, or to the part in music called contralto; as, a contralto voice.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAs musicologist Roger Parker notes, the composer "intervened on several important points, insisting for example that the role of Ernani be sung by a tenor (rather than by a contralto as had originally been planned). Source: Internet
Budden (1984), p. 143 Although Verdi had agreed to try to accommodate the contralto Carolina Vietti when the opera was Allan Cameron, he was against making the leading character of Ernani a musico contralto. Source: Internet
For the true contralto, the range of parts is more limited, which has given rise to the insider joke that contraltos only sing "witches, bitches, and britches " roles. Source: Internet
Her contralto voice O'Meally, Robert G. "Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday". Source: Internet
Smith would "sing a song in an unusual key, and her artistry in bending and stretching notes with her beautiful, powerful contralto to accommodate her own interpretation was unsurpassed." Source: Internet
The contralto Clara Butt had persuaded him that the trio of the first Pomp and Circumstance march could have words fitted to it, and Elgar invited Benson to do so. Source: Internet