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It listed 34 sopranos, 12 mezzo-sopranos and contraltos, 16 tenors, 15 baritones, 14 bassos and five conductors.

From Time Magazine Archive

A boon to bathtub bassos of willing voice and weak memory: the complete librettos, with piano arrangements, of eleven of the best G & S operettas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Powerful rumblings by Soviet baritones and bassos, and less spectacular arias by women singers, from Pique Dame, lolanthe and Eugene Onegin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Londoners who gathered there got more than their shilling's worth of fine music by a full, tail-coated orchestra, of plain & fancy singing by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, coloratura-mezzo-sopranos, baritones, bassos.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then the bassos smote the air with deep sounds: "It goes, it goes."

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman