Mezzo

Explore prominent figures in Mezzo: artists, songs, performances and milestones that influenced musical styles and traditions.

Popular Italian singer, TV presenter and politician

Nancy Fabiola Herrera

Opera singer, one of the most sought-after mezzo-sopranos on the modern opera stage

Shirley Verrett

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano, soprano

Frederica Von Stade

American singer, mezzo-soprano

Nino Surguladze

Actress, mezzo-soprano singer

Faustina Bordoni

Italian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

American opera singer, soprano and mezzo-soprano.

Irene Minghini Cattaneo

Italian opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Marie Kobayashi

Japanese and French singer

Greek opera singer

Fedora Barbieri

Italian singer (mezzo-soprano)

Teresa Berganza

Spanish opera singer (mezzo-soprano).

Latvian opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Brigitta Fassbaender

German opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Fiorenza Cossotto

Italian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

Gabriella Besanzoni

Italian opera singer, mezzo-soprano

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano

French opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

Kerstin Thorborg

Swedish opera singer, mezzo-soprano

American opera singer (mezzo-soprano).

Mezzo-soprano opera singer, soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre.

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Celestine Galli-Marie

French opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Danish singer, mezzo-soprano

Markella Hatziano

Greek opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Russian singer (mezzo-soprano) and teacher

Giuseppina Pasqua

Italian opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Greek singer (mezzo-soprano)

German singer, mezzo-soprano

Vesselina Kasarova

Bulgarian opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

Maria Kamenskaya

Russian opera singer and chamber singer (mezzo-soprano),

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano

American mezzo of Russian origin

Brazilian singer, “muse of Bossa Nova.” Nara herself did not consider herself only a “bossa” performer; she was one of the first Brazilian “protest song” performers.

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano

German mezzo-soprano

Germaine Cernay

French opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Denyce Denyce Graves

American mezzo-soprano singer

Kathleen Howard

Canadian-American opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

Opera singer (mezzo-soprano).

Elizabeth Bainbridge

British opera singer, mezzo-soprano and contralto

Opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

French opera singer (mezzo-soprano)

Italian opera singer, mezzo-soprano

Romanian opera singer (mezzo-soprano).

American opera singer, mezzo-soprano