soprano

IPA: sʌprˈɑnoʊ

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.

Examples of "soprano" in Sentences

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.
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.