Contralto

Contralto Meredith Arwady's title character is the medieval version of a battered wife.

Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera Rodney Punt 2011

Contralto Meredith Arwady was a dull Griselda in an unflattering wig and costume, only catching fire when she explored the very resonant depths of her range.

The Tests of Patience Heidi Waleson 2011

Contralto Meredith Arwady's title character is the medieval version of a battered wife.

Rodney Punt: Griselda in Peter Sellars Production at Santa Fe Opera Rodney Punt 2011

I have a pretty good range generally Contralto through the mid upper levels of Mezzo Soprano.

"How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?" Ann Althouse 2008

So exquisite is the adaptation of Bass to Treble, of Tenor to Contralto, that oftentimes the Loved Ones, though twenty thousand leagues away, recognize at once the responsive note of their destined Lover; and, penetrating the paltry obstacles of distance, Love unites the three.

Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

Then she addressed him in a normal Contralto voice, the one he'd heard over the phone.

The Great Passport Fiasco : August 2nd Edition Zoe Brain 2006

Then she addressed him in a normal Contralto voice, the one he'd heard over the phone.

Archive 2006-08-01 Zoe Brain 2006

His wife was Henrietta Lebrune, the Boston “Society Contralto,” and the single child of the union was, at the request of his grandfather, christened Anthony Comstock Patch.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

_Young Lady_ (_in Contralto tones of remarkable depth and richness_).

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 7, 1891 Various

The next and most important step was in all probability to make the common Geige or three-stringed Fiddle of the same shape as these Tenor and Contralto

The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart