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 ...

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 ...

German classical singer Andreas Scholl is frequently praised as one of the greatest living countertenors, with a career including performances opposite Renee Fleming in the Metropolitan Opera’s ...

Sissy and Max Strauss, who live just off Central Park West, are used to hearing great singers burst into impromptu Sissy and Max Strauss, who live just off Central Park West, are used to hearing great ...

The countertenor is making a comeback. A new generation of interpreters has begun to overcome the weirdness factor and familiarize audiences with a kind of singing that resembles a falsetto yet most ...

Are you allowed to like both Andreas Scholl and David Daniels? I've always felt slightly guilty over this one - it feels somewhat indecent to listen ruthlessly to Scholl for some pieces, and drop him ...

A concert last night at the Wigmore Hall took his latest disc on the road, stripping the singer of the safety of the recording studio and letting his audience judge his latest, and in some ways most ...

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 ...

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 ...