soprano
IPA: sʌprˈɑnoʊ
noun
- The musical part higher in pitch than alto, typically encompassing the range of the treble clef.
- A person or instrument that performs the soprano part.
- A surname from Italian.
verb
- To sing or utter with high pitch.
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Examples of "soprano" in Sentences
- The soprano remains the soloist.
- She played the role of the soprano.
- The chorale in the soprano is highlighted.
- He is also the patriarch of the Soprano household.
- The song demands the voice of a masterful soprano.
- The whole episode is a parody of The Sopranos and The Godfather.
- The soprano introduces the theme, singing it over the orchestra and choir.
- In opera and musical theatre, the ingenue is usually sung by a lyric soprano.
- To me the three female solo voices are contralto, mezzo soprano, and soprano.
- The prima donna soprano is the Signora de Ricci; and the second donna is called
- Her soprano is a shade light, but she negotiates every stylistic variation with fire and grace.
- "The word soprano comes from the Italian 'sopra' meaning above," explains Elin, who called the CD Soprano World.
- I recall the soprano in Ann Patchett's Bel Canto making the comment that she never allowed people to see/hear her practice.
- She is a rarity in opera, a true lirico spinto, a soprano whose voice combines lyrical suppleness with plush, full bodied sound.
- Kim Jong-il, the unpredictable paranoid dear leader of a country which U.S. officials have dubbed the soprano state because of its involvement in organized crime.
- The singing part of the audition went well, she said I had a beautiful voice and made me a second soprano, which is strange because Ive been an alto my whole life, but whatever.
- The statement quoted one of the singer-protesters, Deborah Fink, whom it identified as a soprano, describing the group's first disruption as "intricately interwoven" with the Israel Philharmonic's first piece, Webern's Passacaglia.
- Anne Sofie von Otter's mezzo-soprano is perhaps a touch ethereal for Dido, but she didn't try and compete with the orchestra, instead confidently drawing the drama to her, with a stage presence and an unfailingly intelligent musicality that anchored the human dimension of Part II.
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