And someone around the opera world said, “Are you a countertenor? ”

“你是男高音吗？”

And I started listening to the legacy of Alfred Deller, Russell Oberlin and other countertenors since then in our modern times.

从那时起，我开始听阿尔弗雷德·戴勒、拉塞尔·奥伯林和其他男高音的音乐。

And if you're outside of the Opera House in real life, you know, on the street, I would say even 90 percent of people have no idea what a countertenor is.

果你在歌剧院外面的现实生活中，例在街上，我想说甚至90%的人都不知道什么是男高音。

To mark his birthday, I am joined by the countertenor David James.

为庆祝他的生日，我邀请到了假声男高音大卫·詹姆斯。

Reginald Mobley, a black American countertenor, says that when he was growing up in Florida his family thought of classical music as the music of cross-burners.

雷金纳德·莫布里 (Reginald Mobley) 是美国黑人男高音男高音，他说，当他在佛罗里达州长大时， 他的家人认为古典音乐是燃烧怒火的音乐。

A professor who heard him singing in a barbershop quartet identified him as a countertenor.

一位听到他在理发店四重奏中唱歌的教授认定他是男高音。