Editing Countertenor (section)

== Roles in opera and oratorio ==
Notable countertenor roles include:
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*Adone, ''[[La catena d'Adone]]'' ([[Domenico Mazzocchi]])
*Atlante, Alceste, ''[[Il palazzo incantato]]'' ([[Luigi Rossi]])
*Joad, ''[[Athalia (Handel)|Athalia]]''  ([[George Frideric Handel|Handel]])
*La Fortuna,<ref>Questioned. According to [[Anthony Hicks]] it is a [[Boy soprano|treble]] part that was originally performed by [[William Savage]] before his voice broke (''Giustino'', in {{harvnb|Sadie|1997|loc=vol. II, p. 440}}).</ref> ''[[Giustino (Handel)|Giustino]]'', (Handel)
*Childerico,<ref>Questioned. According to Anthony Hicks the small [[soprano]] part of Childerico, which has no arias, was probably sung an octave lower by William Savage after his voice had just broken (''Faramondo'', in {{harvnb|Sadie|1997|loc=vol. II, p. 121}}).</ref> ''[[Faramondo]]'', (Handel)
*David,<ref>Very dubious. According to Anthony Hicks the role was originally intended to be sung by [[contralto]] {{ill|Maria Antonia Marchesini|it}}, but on account of her illness it was taken at the premiere by an actor singing as a [[tenor]], and was later always entrusted by Handel to female singers (cf. David Vickers, [http://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/handel-saul "Handel ''Saul''. The Sixteen's magnificent new recording of Handel's ''Saul''"], ''[[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]'' {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815033304/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/handel-saul?pmtx=green-red |date=15 August 2017}}"; Robert Hugill, ''CD Review – Handel's Saul'', "[http://www.planethugill.com/2012/09/cd-review-handels-saul.html Planet Hugill – A world of classical music] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206113741/http://www.planethugill.com/2012/09/cd-review-handels-saul.html |date=6 February 2015 }}", 19 September 2012).</ref> ''[[Saul (Handel)|Saul]]'' (Handel)
*Athamas, ''[[Semele (Handel)|Semele]]'' (Handel)
*Joseph, ''[[Joseph and his Brethren]]''  (Handel)
*Hamor, ''[[Jephtha (Handel)|Jephtha]]''  (Handel)
*Oberon, ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' ([[Benjamin Britten|Britten]])
*David, ''[[Chichester Psalms]]'' ([[Leonard Bernstein|Bernstein]])
*Annas, ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'' ([[Andrew Lloyd Webber|Lloyd Webber]])
*Priest, ''[[Taverner (opera)|Taverner]]'' ([[Peter Maxwell Davies|Davies]])
*Voice of Apollo, ''[[Death in Venice (opera)|Death in Venice]]'' (Britten)
*Death, Ithuriel, Raphael, ''[[Paradise Lost (Penderecki)|Paradise Lost]]'' ([[Krzysztof Penderecki|Penderecki]])
*Prince Go-Go,<ref>Role conceived for treble, soprano or high countertenor ([[Paul Griffiths (writer)|Paul Griffiths]], "''Grand Macabre, Le''", in {{harvnb|Sadie|1997|loc=vol. II, p. 511}}).</ref> ''[[Le Grand Macabre]]'' ([[György Ligeti|Ligeti]])
*Edgar,<ref>Role created by tenor David Knutson, but conceived for both tenor and countertenor (Andrew Clements, ''Lear'', in {{harvnb|Sadie|1997|loc=vol. II, p. 1115}}).</ref> ''[[Lear (opera)|Lear]]'' ([[Aribert Reimann|Reimann]])
*Akhnaten, ''[[Akhnaten (opera)|Akhnaten]]'' ([[Philip Glass|Glass]])
*Military Governor, ''[[A Night at the Chinese Opera]]'' ([[Judith Weir|Weir]])
*Mephistophiles, ''[[Historia von D. Johann Fausten (opera)|Historia von D. Johann Fausten]]'' ([[Alfred Schnittke|Schnittke]])
*Vera Loman, ''[[Vera of Las Vegas]]'' ([[Daron Hagen|Hagen]])
*The Refugee, ''[[Flight (opera)|Flight]]'' ([[Jonathan Dove|Dove]])
*The Guest, The voice behind the scene, ''[[Luci mie traditrici]]'' ([[Salvatore Sciarrino|Sciarrino]])
*Kreon, ''Freispruch für Medea'' ([[Rolf Liebermann|Liebermann]])
*Franz, Fritz, ''[[Doctor Ox's Experiment (opera)|Doctor Ox's Experiment]]'' ([[Gavin Bryars|Bryars]])
*Raphael, ''[[Tobias and the Angel (opera)|Tobias and the Angel]]'' (Dove)
*Adschib ("the Wayward"), ''[[L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe]]'' ([[Hans Werner Henze|Henze]])
*Trinculo, ''[[The Tempest (opera)|The Tempest]]'' (Adès)
*Artemis (travesti role), ''[[Phaedra (opera)|Phaedra]]'' (Henze)
*Fox/Coachman, ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio (opera)|The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' (Dove)
*Herald, ''[[Medea (Reimann)|Medea]]'' (Reimann)
*Prospero, Ferdinand, ''[[The Enchanted Island (opera)|The Enchanted Island]]'' ([[Pasticcio]])<ref name="pasticcio">Music by various baroque composers, including George Frideric Handel, [[Antonio Vivaldi]], and [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]] (cf.: [http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/enchanted-island-music.aspx?icamp=EnchIslint&iloc=prodpage ''The Enchanted Island:'' The Music] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123220205/http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/enchanted-island-music.aspx?icamp=EnchIslint&iloc=prodpage |date=23 January 2012 }}, The Metropolitan Opera).</ref>
*First Angel/Boy, ''[[Written on Skin]]'' ([[George Benjamin (composer)|Benjamin]])
*Bishop Baldwin, ''[[Gawain (opera)|Gawain]]'' ([[Harrison Birtwistle|Birtwistle]])
*Orpheus, ''[[The Second Mrs Kong]]'' (Birtwistle)
*Snake Priestess and 2 Innocents, ''[[The Minotaur (opera)|The Minotaur]]'' (Birtwistle)
*Odysseus, ''[[Sirenen]]'' ([[Rolf Riehm|Riehm]])
*Terry, ''[[Marnie (opera)|Marnie]]'' ([[Nico Muhly]])
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