Boy soprano
Under a boy soprano (American English: boy soprano , British English: mostly treble ) is the soprano voice of a boy until the voice broke .
history
The history of the boy soprano is closely linked to the history of the boy choir . It can be assumed that these have existed since at least 1498 ( when the Vienna Boys' Choir was founded as Hofcapell-Singknaben ).
music
Well-known works with parts / roles for boy soprano
- Oberto in Alcina by Georg Friedrich Handel
- Elamir in Axur, re d'Ormus by Salieri
- 3 Boys in the Magic Flute by WA Mozart
- Ellen's third song by Franz Schubert
- Boy's voice in Elias by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- A young shepherd in Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner
- A shepherd boy in Tosca by Giacomo Puccini (voice range referred to as "voce bianca", also available as boyhood )
- Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy
- Pepicek in Brundibár by Hans Krása
- Sam, Hughie Crome, Gay Brook, Jonny Crome in The Little Sweep by Benjamin Britten
- Miles in The Turn of the Screw by Benjamin Britten
- Pollicino in Hans Werner Henze 's opera of the same name
- Gustave in the musical Love Never Dies by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Well-known boy sopranos
- Max Emanuel Cenčić
- David Hemmings
- Michael Jackson
- Aled Jones
- Nikhil Korula
- Joseph McManners
- Bejun Mehta
- Alois Mühlbacher
- Graham Payn
- Aksel Rykkvin
- Peter Schreier (also boyhood)
- Anthony Way
Individual evidence
- ↑ Culture pool : Vienna Boys' Choir. June 30, 2011. Retrieved June 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Burkhard Schäfer: The boy's miraculous voice. Zeit Online, June 28, 2011, accessed June 17, 2017 .