THE TREBLE CHOIR BOYS

Here is a Photoshop-modified picture from the French movie Les Choristes. A "treble" is the term we use to describe a boy's voice before he reaches puberty. The voice itself can range from high soprano to low alto. The baritones and basses of a typical choir, like the one depicted in this movie, are usually the older boys.

Children occasionally have roles in even the most serious of operas. You'll hear them as charming street urchins playing soldier in Carmen or hear them emit the most blood-curdling screams as the enslaved Nibelungs in Das Rheingold, running away from the dwarf Alberich and his invisible whip! Some rare operas have a boy soprano singing the leading role, like the shepherd boy in Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.

The Treble

Roles

• Role, Opera by Composer
  
• Role, Opera by Composer
  
• Role, Opera by Composer
  
• Role, Opera by Composer

Notable Dramatic Countertenors

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