In classical music and opera, the term soubrette refers to both a soprano voice type and a particular type of opera role. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Mouths of Babes] Reference
"I'm Pega, and I was the armagette Pelagia's soubrette.". From Wordnik.com. [The Urth of the New Sun]
But he is carrying on dreadfully with a soubrette in New York. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
The soubrette Agnès has no aria, while Urbain the page gets two. From Wordnik.com. [Lewis/Gounod's Bleeding Nonne: An Introduction and Translation of the Scribe/Delavigne Libretto] Reference
As he passes the sleeping soubrette, she moves uneasily in her chair. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Rarely does a singer remain a soubrette throughout her entire career. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Mouths of Babes] Reference
A few seconds, and then the stage-manager responds by leading Sylla forward in her soubrette dress. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Composers such as Oscar Straus, Franz Lehár, and Edmund Eysler wrote for her expressive soubrette voice. From Wordnik.com. [Lina Abarbanell.] Reference
"A black-haired soubrette, a brown pony, and a redheaded slip; no rivals to the leading lady in this show!". From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Cilli Bell, who debuted in 1922 at the Jüdische Bühne as Yankele, performed as a soubrette in Vienna after 1926. From Wordnik.com. [Yiddish Theater in Vienna.] Reference
A soubrette voice is light with a bright, sweet timbre, a tessitura in the mid-range, and with no extensive coloratura. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Mouths of Babes] Reference
I would like to have yelled at her, "See, Mrs. Hennessey, we've got two boarders already and one of them's a soubrette!". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
It is sung by tenor, principal comedian, and soubrette. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
Here was Merrihew in love with the soubrette, and he himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of the Mask] Reference
The girls will dance with the two men, the boys with the soubrette. From Wordnik.com. [Jill the Reckless] Reference
I feel that Mimi is going to chatter like a soubrette from an operetta. From Wordnik.com. [Komediantka. English] Reference
That a soubrette is always fifteen or twenty years older than she looks. From Wordnik.com. [The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind] Reference
That's another place where you soubrette worriers have us figured out wrong. From Wordnik.com. [At Good Old Siwash] Reference
In her early years she focused on soubrette roles, including Mozart heroines. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
A very bright little cross-fire sketch between a retired major and a jolly soubrette. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts] Reference
Cette sonnette état celle qui avertissait la soubrette que sa maîtresse réclamait son office. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
I followed him upstairs, and in a moment I was ushered into the presence of the famous soubrette. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
Others succumb to the dental perfection of the prima donna or to the shapely legs of the soubrette. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference
She had originally taken soubrette parts, and went through her role in white kid gloves, dangling a fan. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 2] Reference
The slipper of a soubrette trips the heart of a king and changes the destiny of a nation-the history of mankind. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
Buttoning it down, his chin lifted, he saw the image of Marie Kendall, charming soubrette, beside the two puckers. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Her young girlhood was occupied with soubrette parts, but she soon developed unusual emotional powers, and attracted. From Wordnik.com. [American Men of Mind] Reference
After this act of prudence he went toward the curtain, while the fair Austrian soubrette flew on her previous errand. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
They passed Dan Lowry's musichall where Marie Kendall, charming soubrette, smiled on them from a poster a dauby smile. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He said I made a capital soubrette, and he certainly could not have been trying to deceive me, but the fact is he was deceived himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
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