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Derek Lee Ragin
12+ albums
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Derek Lee Ragin (born June 17, 1958) is an American countertenor Ragin studied as a piano major at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He began his operatic career at Oberlin in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon. After Oberlin, he worked with singer Max van Egmond for a summer session at BPI and went to Europe to pursue his career in Baroque opera For the soundtrack of the 1994 film Farinelli, his voice was electronically blended with that of soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska to recreate the famous castrato's voice User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
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Salve Regina in C Minor - Transp. in A-Flat Minor
1,1272Cleofide: Generoso risuegliati o core (Air de Poro)
1,0443Idaspe: Ombra fedela anch'io (Air de Dario)
6924Rinaldo, HWV 7a: Lascia ch'io pianga (Air de Almirena)
6465Rinaldo, HWV 7a: Cara sposa (Air de Rinaldo)
5526Polifemo: Alto giove (Air d'Acio)
4227Artaserse: Son qual nave ch'agitata (Air de Arbace)
3698Carco sempre di gloria (cantata for alto and basso continuo)
2569Sonata in C Minor (for oboe and basso continuo)
11710Sonata in F Major (for oboe and basso continuo)
100albums
Handel: Cantatas Sonatas
Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit - Spirituals
Italian Lute Songs
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Gluck: Orfeo Ed Euridice
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Negro Spirituals
Tomaso Albinoni, Antonio Caldara, Cantata
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Farinelli - Il Castrato (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [From Gérard Corbiau's Film Fa
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Love and Death in Venice
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Altus: From Castrato to Countertenor
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Lute Songs & Solos by John Dowland & Peter Croton
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100 Best Adagio Voices
Antonio Vivaldi, 6 Cantate da Camer