How To Use Coloratura In A Sentence
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Her coloratura singing was often breathtaking!
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With her volleys of coloratura and seductive (yet false) warmth, she is a stunner.
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It also showed an ability to sing coloratura, which is a fast, fluid way of singing music that is ordinarily not easy for the more dramatic singers.
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Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
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Their legacy is a series of low coloratura contralto roles which serve to add variety and depth to the operas.
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Earlier in Freni's career she was primarily a lyric soprano, and even sang coloratura roles such as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani.
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The tone was richer and warmer than is her wont, the coloratura brilliant and smooth.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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Thomas had to produce a vehicle for the rather grand Swedish coloratura soprano Christine Nilsson.
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Nevertheless, it is not just a speciality item either, and anyone with curiosity about this era of singing - or looking for a fairly unknown coloratura soprano to enjoy - should not hesitate to acquire this pair of inexpensive discs.
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A successful production of Poppea depends not upon operatic voices but upon singing actors who can color their voices and make drama out of the expressive melismas and coloratura.
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So, to me, this part is not just about coloratura acrobatics.
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After retiring as a dancer she turned to singing and began a new career as a coloratura soprano in Italy in 1938.
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Tenor Kei Fukui and coloratura soprano Yumika Watanabe delighted audiences with pieces from Rossini, Puccini and others.
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She hurls out coloratura like spattered drops of venom.
Lucrezia Borgia - review
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Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo.
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She heads a classy cast, with soprano Eglise Gutierrez in the ditsy coloratura role of Fairy Godmother and the mezzo Alice Coote in rapturous, unblemished voice, a stupendous Prince Charming.
Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
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I was pleased also to find two recordings by Toti Dal Monte, a great Italian coloratura who participated (with Gigli) in one of the finest recordings of Madama Butterfly.
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Erna Berger was born in 1900 near Dresden, and by the time she was 30, she had made a name for herself in Germany singing light soprano and coloratura roles.
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Already considered one of the most exciting performers in the new generation of lyric coloratura sopranos, Mary has played many of the world's most famous operatic heroines on many of the leading stages around the world.
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Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura (and later spinto) capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo.
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Joao's extraordinary expressive range reached from guttural croaks to coloratura trilling, with scatting and vocalizing in between.
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There's a coloratura soprano to be the cricket.
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In Mr. Salonen’s Floof, a setting of a text by the Polish science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem about an android that teaches itself to write love poetry using the jargon of higher math instead of the language of hearts and bodies, Ms. Arnold effortlessly alternated between lucid coloratura vocalism and the roughest, most guttural sounds; conductor Jeffrey Milarsky and the Miller musicians drove home Mr. Salonen’s punchy, rugged brand of postminimalism with assurance and aplomb.
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Now, the French soprano, 45 years old, returns to a part designed for a singer who can handle "coloratura" — elaborate trills and zippy singing.
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Although singing most of the time only mezzo forte, his pronunciation is good, his coloraturas flow weightlessly and his piano is clear and sure.
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They clearly love playing for him and grabbed every opportunity to thrill us with their classy reading of Rachmaninov's arching, aching second symphony, which was a perfect companion for the evening's curio, Glière's Concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra though nearly 40 years apart, they share the same lush, chromatic harmonic language.
The Turn of the Screw; BBC Proms 32, 35, 36 – review
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The original Lucy was a coloratura soprano, but she withdrew from the production because she thought it was immoral.
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The real vocal star is Katharine Goeldner as the knight Ruggiero, giving as spectacular a demonstration of mezzo-soprano coloratura virtuosity as you are likely to hear anywhere today.
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Technically, she was a coloratura soprano, but her voice has none of the twittery or harsh qualities that one sometimes finds in French coloraturas.
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She sings some of the most challenging coloraturas ever written and it must be stated that Slawitscheck has a wonderful voice able to master these difficult musical problems.
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Her smallish soprano voice did not have the coloratura roulades or high Cs for Strauss's ‘Voices of Spring Waltzes' Op 410.
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Yet she must also be able to sing a delicate cantabile line (with beautiful pianissimos) and brilliant coloratura.
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Bonynge also helped guide her away from the Wagnerian track that might have seemed to be a natural for someone of her vocal endowments, and into the realm of the coloratura soprano.
Joan Sutherland: addio, Stupenda
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Not only does she trill and sing accurate coloratura, she also gives a searing portrayal of Irene.
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Her coloratura in the Jewel Song was hit or miss - the note values often approximated.
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The brilliant coloratura, effortless vocal dynamics, and beautifully rounded tone brought Joan Sutherland to mind.
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My voice had only just changed, and though I was obviously a coloratura, my top left much to be desired.
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Thousands greeted Jenny Lind's arrival in New York Harbour but they expected to hear coloratura fireworks, not art songs of Mendelssohn.
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Anne-Marie Brownhill's Cosette was surprisingly mature and self-assured, and her voice had a depth of tone not often heard in coloratura sopranos.
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Her voice was that rarity, a dramatic coloratura soprano.
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Thus, in the coloratura passages of Mozart's arias, I have always sought to gain expressiveness by _crescendi_, choice of significant points for breathing, and breaking off of phrases.
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Called “La Stupenda,” she combined the heft of a Wagnerian singer with the agility and upper register of a coloratura soprano, leading to powerful interpretations of great bel canto roles that had lain dormant for decades -- following in the wake of Maria Callas, who had spearheaded their initial revival.
Joan Sutherland: addio, Stupenda
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He seemed to relish the fiercely difficult coloratura roulades of ‘Agitata da Due Venti’ from Griselda.
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A dumpy coloratura soprano, her voice was not even mediocre, it was preposterous.
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And Fiordiligi puts up more resistance than her sister Dorabella, and her brilliant coloratura arias reflect her emotional torment.
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German coloratura soprano Erna Berger managed to avoid most of the controversy that surrounded some German musicians in the years during and immediately following World War Two.
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The arias contained in the work are dominantly of two types, the aria di bravura, with rich coloratura elements, and the aria parlante, in declamatory vocal style.
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
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She may lack Bartoli's vocal virtuosity and sparkling stage personality, but her Angelina conveys its own quiet charm, and Rossini's florid coloratura writing never fazes her.
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Originally written for a coloratura soprano, the music pushes both piano and trumpet to near impossible virtuoso extremes.
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Yet again prolific American composer Libby Larsen has occupied the operatic limelight - this time with a drama focussing on coloratura soprano Jenny Lind, once dubbed ‘The Swedish Nightingale’.
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Her coloratura was superbly executed, yet finely integrated into the performance; each roulade told you something about Zerbinetta and was not just a cause for showing off.
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In spring," she notes, "the basso profundo of a great horned owl is exchanged for the coloratura soprano of a winter wren, which is itself replaced by countertenor voices of tree frogs.
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Giovanna's coloratura holds no terrors for her, and the assurance of her technique - every note is hit dead on - is matched only by her assured interpretation.
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And Fiordiligi puts up more resistance than her sister Dorabella, and her brilliant coloratura arias reflect her emotional torment.
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In the mid 19th century the increase in the size of opera houses and concert halls meant that there was an increased emphasis on singers' power at the expense of agility and less emphasis on coloratura.
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I am sometimes surprised that coloratura sopranos ever want to sing this role, since the subtext of it is that what coloraturas do is mechanical: spin the crank and listen to the high notes!
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John Pead, tenor, started our programme with two arias from Handel's Rodelinda, showing a considerable virtuosity, the first with elaborate coloratura, the second more melancholy and sustained.
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
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Some may be put off by the sheer ferocity of her coloratura and expressive devices, but I find them apt, thrilling, and awesomely accurate.
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Soprano Erin Morley was a spectacular Marguerite (once a Joan Sutherland signature role), navigating the extreme coloratura and the mix of dignity and coquettishness with great flair.
A Triumphant Massacre
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The choirs and directors were originators of the performances, but they always needed two cornetto players, a chitarrone player, two solo tenors and two sopranos who had the necessary coloratura.
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The second movement challenges the soloist's control and virtuosity with sustained high notes that must ring out over the accompaniment, and with rapid figurations, like a coloratura soprano's vocal exercises.
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The author believed that the reason why Li Er appears so distinctive lies in its multi-voice words of"coloratura narrative"in his novel .
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It also showed an ability to sing coloratura, which is a fast, fluid way of singing music that is ordinarily not that easy for the more dramatic singers.
Maria Callas: Voice Of Perfect Imperfection
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You can't relax your brain even for a second, otherwise you will lose a lot of notes doing those fast coloraturas.
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The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
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At that audition I did not have any Baroque arias prepared so I sang my usual bel canto coloratura and he hired me on the spot.
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The musical style is full of charming melodies and a lightness of touch, a predilection for woodwind, simple diatonic writing contrasted by more chromatic and coloratura writing for the heroic and virtuous characters.
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Standing ovations greet Korean soprano Sumi Jo whenever she performs her coloratura repertoire at Covent Garden, La Scala , the Paris Opera, Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House.
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Her voice was that rarity, a dramatic coloratura soprano.
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