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That same year, one of the group’s two mezzo-sopranos, Caroline Shaw, won the Pulitzer Prize for music for her piece “Partita for 8 Voices.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 4, 2019

Among the guest vocalists are baritone Kevin Deas, mezzo-sopranos Sheila Houlahan and Kristen Choi, and tenor Ross Hauck.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2018

Baroque music, long the primary source of employment for countertenors — men who sing in the vocal register typically associated with mezzo-sopranos or altos — remains a major part of Mr. Costanzo’s career.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2017

Heggie has long cultivated top singers, particularly mezzo-sopranos.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2016

The Tennessee-born Metropolitan Opera star, one of the world's most sought-after mezzo-sopranos since the early 1970s, prefers to keep her two lives separate.

From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max