No. While the ranges for the voices are similar, an alto is a female voice, and a countertenor is a male voice.
High Tenor, almost a Countertenor.
The movie Countertenor does not seem to exist. There was a movie called Farinelli which was about a countertenor but the movie had his name as the title.
David Daniels - countertenor - was born on 1966-03-12.
Voice Types by Range and Tessitura. If you sing in a choir or take voice lessons, you have probably already been classified as a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto (alto) if you are a woman, and a countertenor, tenor, baritone, or bass if you are a man.
No, but he has a good falsetto.
Tenor. Unless you take the full range into consideration, so then it would be a countertenor. A countertenor uses their full voice which includes the normal range, and the falsetto voice, but the countertenor also uses the falsetto range alot.
Frank Kelley, the tenor, has been described, mistakenly, as a countertenor because of the high tessitura of his role in the Tod Machover opera Death and the Powers.
Men do not have an alto voice since that would be referred to a countertenor (a man who uses predominantly falsetto, naturally tenors (or even some baritones)). Chris Brown would have a tenor voice since he predominantly sing comfortably around D4-A4 which is the typical comfort zone for tenors. He is definitely not a countertenor either where falsetto is applied. Falsetto would normally sound nasal and brighter than a typical tenor.
Countertenor.
Countertenor is the highest male voice. They generally sing in the falsetto register and they range between G3 to E5 or F5. This classical male singing voice is equal to a female contralto or mezzo-soprano.
He is a tenor, but I have also heard some refer to him as a countertenor.
He is a countertenor, or has the same range of mezzosoprano or contralto.