Favorite Female Vocalist

My pleasure, Casty. I'll also bet there are another dozen or so great opera singers we're missing on this thread. I'd love to hear some recommendations along those lines.

 

NICO!

 

That's in the HC department.

I fell in love with Victoria de los Angeles many moons ago.

 

I still say HC needs to get some of her work up so the rest of us can hear her!

 

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First off, I don't consider Sarah Brightman an opera singer. She's a pop singer with high notes and can't be heard without a microphone. Some great female opera voices:

Christa Ludwig
Renee Fleming
Leontyne Price
Dawn Upshaw
Mirella Freni
Monserat Caballe
Marilyn Horne
Joan Sutherland
Beverly Sills
Ann Sofie von Otter

 

Good thing she has a microphone, I guess.

 

Aimee Mann.

Also Emmylou Harris.

And Jessika Von Rabbit from Gram Rabbit.

 

--Lene Lovich
--Bonnie Tyler
--Wendy O. Williams

 

Donna from the Grateful Dead's Shakedown Street album.

Madonna from the beginning till the early 90s.


Alanis.

Heloise Williams (Viperhouse)

 

Bonnie Raitt ("Green Light" and before)
Emmylou, and Linda Ronstadt
Rosanne Cash, before the drugs
Christine McVie
Chrissy Hynde, of course
Sarah McLachlan

And Valerie Carter singing "Drifting and Deaming" from "White Line Fever."

 

--Lita Ford
--The rocker chick who made the final 24 on Idol this past season
--Joan Jett

And Micro, props for Raitt. I wish I could find Baby Come Back on YouTube