Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Alfred Deller, Andreas Scholl, Marco Lazzara, Iestyn Davies, Bejun Mehta, Philippe Jaroussky, Rene Jacobs, Michael Maniaci, Tom Sutcliffe, Robin Blaze, James Bowman, Brian Asawa, Patrick Van Goethem, Max Emanuel Cen i, Thierry Gregoire, William Savage, Carlos Mena, Matthew White, Vyatcheslav "Slava" Kagan-Paley, Tobias Cole, Christophe Dumaux, Nicholas Clapton, Daniel Taylor, Gerard Lesne, David Daniels, Jochen Kowalski, Glenn Kesby, Ivo Posti, Jorge Cano, John Abell, Jose Lemos, Paul Esswood, Erik Kurmangaliev, Bernhard Landauer, Dominique Visse, Kai Wessel, Aris Christofellis, Michael Chance, Derek Lee Ragin, Benjamin Marcantoni, Russell Oberlin, Terry Barber, Axel Kohler. Excerpt: Andreas Scholl (born 10 November 1967) is a German countertenor, a male classical singer in the alto vocal range. He specialises in Baroque music. His range is the same as that of the celebrated 18th century alto castrato, Senesino, for whom Handel wrote his greatest alto roles. Fanfare Magazine says: "There are more excellent countertenors before the public today than ever before, but one stands out above all others, as Caruso among tenors a century ago: Andreas Scholl." In 2005, Scholl became the first countertenor (and the first German) to appear as a solo performer at The Last Night of the Proms in London. Scholl was born on 10 November 1967 in Eltville, Germany, and grew up in neighboring Kiedrich. All of his family members were singers. He was enrolled at the age of seven into the Kiedricher Chorbuben (Kiedrich Choir-Boys) - which was first documented in 1333 as "a schola of men assisting the priests on all Sundays, singing the Gregorian chant." At age 13, Andreas Scholl sang the second boy (his sister Elisabeth sang the first boy) in Mozart's Die Zauberflote at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. That same year, he...