Vocal Music - Wide-ranging Voices

Wide-ranging Voices

  • Lucrezia Aguiari: C4 - C7.
  • Elizabeth Billington: A3 - A6.
  • Maria Callas: F♯3 - F6. In his review of Callas's June 11, 1951 concert in Florence, music critic Rock Ferris of ''Musical Courier said, "Her high E's and F's are taken full voice." In a 1969 French television interview with Pierre Desgraupes on the program L'invité du dimanche, La Scala's maestro Francesco Siciliani speaks of Callas's voice going to high F.
  • Isabella Colbran: G3 - E6.
  • Ewa Podles: A2 - E♭6.
  • Michael Jackson: F2 - E♭6
  • Clara Butt: A2 - B♭5
  • Farinelli: C3 - C6.
  • Manuel Garcia: G or A2 - D5.
  • Maria Malibran: G3 - E6.
  • Mado Robin: E4 - D7.
  • Yma Sumac: her range was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak. From B2 to C♯7
  • Cher: A2 - F6
  • Mariah Carey: A♭2 - A♭7. Carey has hit an A♭2 while talking on an interview and an A♭7 in a live performance of her song "Emotions" in 1991 at the MTV Music Awards, making hers a vocal range of exactly five octaves.

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