NOUN
- a soprano with a voice between soprano and contralto
- the female singing voice between contralto and soprano
How To Use mezzo-soprano In A Sentence
- The competitors will be judged by a stellar panel made up of mezzo-sopranos Teresa Berganza and Marilyn Horne, soprano Grace Bumbry, tenor Jon Vickers, basses Cesare Siepi and Joseph Rouleau and musicologist Gilles Cantagrel.
- Although Kelley O'Connor lists herself as a mezzo-soprano, she has a rich, incredibly deep voice that is quite unusual.
- Jan DeGaetani was a mezzo-soprano with a unique voice, range of repertoire, and persona.
- Also in Venice he met, and soon after married, the mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni, one of the finest singers of her time.
- His writing for contralto or mezzo-soprano, to a text by Theocritus, is surely a masterpiece.
- She became a professional mezzo-soprano.
- The mezzo-soprano also proved that she is still the only Bulgarian singer to have mastered unaccented pronunciation of German and a clear diction, so essential to the art of singing.
- ( "What Will I Do Without Euridice?"), I was sold forever, even though Orfeo ed Euridice featured a so-called "trouser" lead role, a part originally written for a castrato, but these days performed by a female mezzo-soprano in drag. Jackie Fuchs: Why Opera Rocks
- My distinguished colleagues include the legendary tenor Plácido Domingo, as well as counter-tenor David Daniels, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni, soprano Lisette Oropesa, and counter-tenor Anthony Roth Costanzo. Danielle de Niese: Inspired to Inspire
- The late mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani makes a guest appearance in these 1973 sessions.
