Stars (Javert's song from Les Misérables) sung by a contralto

It's Stars, Javert's song from Les Miserables, but a lady with a deep voice sings it. what a novelty

This is the first song from a musical I've practiced off the score like I do with opera stuff. That was fun. Might do some more stuff from musicals, although I noticed a weird pitfall of Broadway repertoire. You'll notice I'm real quiet at 0:58. That's because I thought it'd be fun to go into head voice there since many of the professional singers I referenced use head voice at several points during this song. However, my head voice at this pitch is really weak. It's not my fault either! Have you wondered why, even though my tessitura is about the same as a baritone's, my voice is still distinctly female? It's because my vocal folds are literally a different shape from a man's, effectively I'm playing a different instrument. Men have a powerful head voice around middle C and women, even deep voiced women like me, don't have a powerful head voice until about an octave higher than that. In opera, baritones seldom are required to use head voice so if I look at a baritone aria I can be p sure I'm looking at something I'm physically capable of performing. Modern musicals loooove to make baritones use head voice either for poignant punctuation as in this song or to achieve a particular rock and roll quality. So a lot of modern musical songs are technically within my tessitura but impossible for me to perform correctly. when u have a freakishly rare vocal type it sucks to suck i guess