Breaking without warning into that ungodly coloratura. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
She hurls out coloratura like spattered drops of venom. From Wordnik.com. [Lucrezia Borgia - review] Reference
Say them all but tell them apart, cadenzando coloratura!. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
She certainly had an amazing coloratura-and led an amazing life. From Wordnik.com. [Edie Adams, 1927-2008] Reference
A coloratura soprano is one who can sing such highly ornamented parts. From Wordnik.com. [coloratura] Reference
Her coloratura voice did not have the range or the endurance of lyric sopranos. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Sills.] Reference
The needed brilliance of a high soprano's coloratura filigree is lost on a tenor. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: Handel's Messiah Re-imagined by Mozart in L.A. Master Chorale Performance] Reference
Encores were another big Rossini coloratura piece and a dramatic Tchaikovsky song. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
"The Doll Song is a coloratura aria -- very high and very virtuosic," Mr. Eliasen says. From Wordnik.com. [Hit List: Ann Patchett] Reference
Beverly Sills, 78 The Brooklyn-born coloratura soprano could have been, you know, a diva. From Wordnik.com. [Famous In Life, Noted In Passing] Reference
There were breathtaking roller-coaster trills, coloratura leaps that were hard to believe. From Wordnik.com. [Bartoli Channels Malibran] Reference
Erin Morley's coloratura soprano lends unerring vocal virtuosity to her Queen of the Night. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: Magic Flute at Santa Fe Opera] Reference
It needs singers, seven of them, who can act and actors whose comfortable idiom is coloratura. From Wordnik.com. [In performance: WCO's "Cenerentola"] Reference
December 26, 2007 at 10:21 pm mush hab mush moar coloratura to seeng teh qkweek in teh Majik Floot!. From Wordnik.com. [RIIIIIICOLAAAAA - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Victor Ryan Robertson's bright tenor sounded mechanical in the Prince's high, fast-moving coloratura. From Wordnik.com. [Long Journeys to Happy Endings] Reference
Ms. Dessay can roll off exact coloratura leaps and strings of micro-minims the way most of us breathe. From Wordnik.com. [How SFO Closed Its Season] Reference
Her skillful coloratura voice, which had been in training for so many years, was now public knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Beverly Sills.] Reference
This was my music, my destiny: coloratura instead of twang, "Dove sono" instead of "Stand by Your Man.". From Wordnik.com. [The Best Seat in the House] Reference
She was witty and charming and practical, and she had been a coloratura soprano before she'd gotten ill. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
Is there any good music in it besides "O luce di quest'anima," favorite of coloratura sopranos everywhere?. From Wordnik.com. [Rarity] Reference
She matches the acrobatics of her coloratura with a physicality like Olivier's, vaulting all about the stage. From Wordnik.com. [I can totally see Angelina Jolie in that part, actually.] Reference
Jennifer Rhys-Davies, as the visionary Hilde Mack, seizes her Donizetti-inspired coloratura with skill and panache. From Wordnik.com. [Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho] Reference
Sills's rock-solid technique made it possible for her to take on heavier roles than other lyric coloratura sopranos. From Wordnik.com. [A Salute to the ‘Bubbles’ Who Never Went Flat] 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
Hanan Alattar sings Leila's coloratura sweetly and accurately rather than powerfully, which makes the role more poignant. From Wordnik.com. ['Pearl Fishers' Offers Great Performances, Grand Imagery] Reference
No. In this first episode of three, we're still defining terms – coloratura, bel canto, etc – but I'm learning quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Storyville: Killer Image – Shooting Robert King and Opera Italia] Reference
Most vivid was Désirée Rancantore, whose lovely high coloratura brought warmth and beauty to the music of the Nightingale. From Wordnik.com. [A Perplexing 'Walküre'] Reference
Grammy-winning Korean coloratura soprano Sumi Jo dropped out of Seoul National University in 1983 to study singing in Italy. From Wordnik.com. [Time Off] Reference
Viskvorkina put her lovely, sapphire-polish lyric coloratura to unfailingly stylish use — not just a voice, but a real singer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-01] Reference
"Ariodante" is primarily a chain of single-emotion arias, made up of multiple repeats and super-challenging coloratura ornamentations. From Wordnik.com. [How SFO Closed Its Season] Reference
Barbara Cook, who played the part, was great, but even she struggles with the coloratura effects that Bernstein wrote with Adams in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
Animated coloratura widely regarded as America's greatest soprano. From Wordnik.com. [A Day In the Life] Reference
It is the toughest role in "Flute," perhaps the toughest in the coloratura repertoire. From Wordnik.com. [Gazette.com :] Reference
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