haute-contre meaning in French
haute-contre
Examples
- After initial training as a choirboy, when his voice broke Legros developed the voice of a haute-contre, a type of French high tenor that was typically used for the heroic male lead in French operas of the period.
Après une première formation d'enfant de chœur, lorsque sa voix mua, Legros développa une voix de haute-contre, voix de ténor aiguë française généralement employée pour le premier rôle masculin héroïque des opéras français de l'époque. - Legros was replaced in his post as the principal haute-contre of the Académie Royale, by his deputy, Étienne Lainez, and by Jean-Joseph Rousseau Cyr, Mary, "On performing 18th-century Haute-Contre Roles", Musical Times, vol 118, 1997, pp 291–5, later reproduced in Cyr, M., Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music.
Legros fut remplacé, come première haute-contre de l’Opéra, par son substitut, Étienne Lainez, et par J. Rousseau (en) Cyr, Mary, "On performing 18th-century Haute-Contre Roles", Musical Times, vol 118, 1997, pp. 291-5, reproduit ensuite en Mary Cyr, Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music. - Legros was replaced in his post as the principal haute-contre of the Académie Royale, by his deputy, Étienne Lainez, and by Jean-Joseph Rousseau Cyr, Mary, "On performing 18th-century Haute-Contre Roles", Musical Times, vol 118, 1997, pp 291–5, later reproduced in Cyr, M., Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music.
Legros fut remplacé, come première haute-contre de l’Opéra, par son substitut, Étienne Lainez, et par J. Rousseau (en) Cyr, Mary, "On performing 18th-century Haute-Contre Roles", Musical Times, vol 118, 1997, pp. 291-5, reproduit ensuite en Mary Cyr, Essays on the Performance of Baroque Music.