Though she was not strictly a coloratura soprano, the innate flexibility of her instrument let her essay the Olympian heights of some coloratura works with ease.
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She dispatched coloratura runs and filigree with ease and agility.
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Some singers go overboard with the coloratura in these repeats.
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Gosfield gives him a full-on mad scene, with deranged atonal coloratura.
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His voice reaches for the heavens in a solitary burst of coloratura.
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Rosemary's music, at first, combines melodic coloratura madness with cosmic undercurrents of rock.
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Ms. Damrau dispatched the aria with rosy sound, agile coloratura and girlish glee.
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The most heroic performance was delivered by the coloratura soprano Audrey Luna, as Leticia.
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And as her performance amply demonstrates, she can also toss off brilliant coloratura roulades.
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It demands Adagio and Allegro skills, and its most scintillating coloratura passages should seem effortless.
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True to form, Ms. Radvanovsky sings with searing power, flinty attack and incisive coloratura passagework.
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With the Philharmonic, Lauren Snouffer was effervescent in coloratura numbers and gleaming in meditative arias.
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Amina's climactic sleepwalking scene requires both delicate lyricism and daring coloratura agility; Ms. Park had both.
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Ms. Damrau brings brilliant coloratura agility, radiant sound and charisma galore to the role of Leila.
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The gorgeous gliding phrases, the hairbreadth pauses, the coloratura flourishes all emanate from the same source.
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"There's a particular thrill about that high coloratura range," Mr. Adès said in a phone interview.
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Her singing was technically assured, with clean coloratura passagework and shimmering top notes, and sensitively phrased.
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As Nedda, his straying wife, the soprano Jessica Rose Cambio sings with agile coloratura and mostly shimmering sound.
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Leticia, a famous prima donna fresh from the "Lucia" performance, was here the high-coloratura soprano Audrey Luna.
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Ms. Whitfield trained as a coloratura soprano and sang with the San Francisco Opera chorus during the 260s.
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But Ms. DiDonato, typically expert at dispatching coloratura roulades and passagework, had some patches when her voice seemed pushed.
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In Cunegonde's tour-de-force aria "Glitter and Be Gay," Ms. Picerno handily dispatched the comically elaborate coloratura runs.
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Possessed of a light, fleet instrument, she confined herself to coloratura and soubrette roles, steering clear of heavier fare.
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The tenor Lawrence Brownlee is familiar to New York opera audiences for his precise coloratura and smooth bel canto singing.
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I covered the night and its secrets and regrets in coloratura cavatina, until all that could be remembered was me.
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She navigated the coloratura hurdles with ease throughout, her shading, dynamic control and expressive nuance rendering the confession scene particularly potent.
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Meade first sang the part at the Caramoor Festival, in 2009, wowing cognoscenti with her immaculate coloratura and gleaming high notes.
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Among the fine cast, the soprano Marie-Eve Munger stood out as the fairy, who expresses herself in glassy-clear coloratura.
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We'll have to see if she follows the path of the coloratura-happy Marilyn Horne or the refined, lyrical Susan Graham.
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Her coloratura satiny and clean, Daniela Fally is a calmly sunny, blessedly unperky Zerbinetta, smiling through her seen-it-all-ness.
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Three elegantly ornamented Handel arias that opened the program (including "Endless Pleasure," from "Semele") were a vehicle for Ms. Fang's clean coloratura.
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Diana Damrau, a Meyerbeer specialist, was to have sung the coloratura part of Marguerite, but she cancelled in August, for health reasons.
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Her powerful soprano has an acid brightness that is well suited to coloratura showpieces, but can lack warmth in more tender exchanges.
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And the third soprano character is really not my type — she's a voluptuous coloratura in a gown — but that could be fun.
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There was some roughness and smudgy coloratura passagework in her singing, moments when she sacrificed clear Italian diction in pursuit of intensity.
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He invents plausible pseudo-Donizetti for the opera-within-the-opera, playing to DiDonato's dual gifts for coloratura agility and lyric repose.
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A coloratura soprano who did not perform in Europe until she was 21912, she eschewed the rarefied image of an opera diva.
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He shared the program with the gifted, radiant-voiced young coloratura soprano Amy Owens (presented in collaboration with the George London Foundation).
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The tenor Lawrence Brownlee, a bel-canto star, sang with classy polish as Parker, showing how close scatting can be to Rossinian coloratura.
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One of Dr. Butts's sisters, Mattiwilda Dobbs, became a coloratura soprano and a principal singer with the Metropolitan Opera and died in 2015.
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Ms. Stemme was a Mozartian coloratura soprano when she became the joint winner of the first Operalia held in Paris 2011 years ago.
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And because I was singing all of this lyric coloratura stuff, I disconnected incrementally to try to keep it in this small space.
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"Maybe This Dream" — In college, Donna Lynne Champlin was told that the way she "looked" didn't match the fact she was a coloratura soprano.
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In long stretches of coloratura, especially, her legato, while smooth, retained remarkable clarity of pitch and evenness of rhythm, flickering like a lambent flame.
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In Act I, when Violetta, a charming courtesan, is throwing a lavish party, a soprano must summon flights of coloratura brilliance and coquettish sparkle.
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One of the musicians denied a visa was Sumi Jo, a coloratura soprano who has toured China almost every year for the past decade.
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The mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey gave a stupendous account of the title role, executing hyper-elegant coloratura as confidently as she did agitprop orations.
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Impressed, Mr. Peerce arranged for Roberta to study with Mr. Herman, whose students included the Metropolitan Opera coloratura Patrice Munsel, who died last year.
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One coloratura option: About 17 states have ballot-qualified third parties (beyond the bigger three) now on the ballot, just organized in that one state.
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After all, where else can you see one of the biggest pop stars in the world share the stage with an internationally renowned coloratura soprano?
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If she seemed a bit tentative and over-reverential at the start of this overflowing exultation, she rose wholeheartedly to the "Allelujah," with effortless coloratura.
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Not content to perform lesser works, she regularly devoted herself to arias characterized by difficult coloratura, from works like Faust, Rigoletto, Aida and The Magic Flute.
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Half of the 40 songs that the composer wrote for Ms. Vasnier, who had a high enough range to sing coloratura, remained unpublished in his lifetime.
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My mother, Lucille Potter Lavin, was a singer, an opera singer, with a very beautiful lyric coloratura and a brief but dazzling career in New York.
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As the emotionally unstable Elvira, a young Puritan woman in 17th-century England, Ms. Damrau sang with gleaming sound, volatile intensity and fearless execution of florid coloratura runs.
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Joe finds comfort with a Chinese prostitute, Ah Sing (the brilliant coloratura soprano Hye Jung Lee), who decides that Joe, a client, would also make an ideal mate.
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Dewdrop is a virtuoso coloratura role, with rapid-trilling runs on point, jumps in which one foot is brilliantly flourished in the air, and pirouettes of bewildering complexity.
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Singers still face limitations on their repertory for logistical reasons: A Wagnerian soprano might struggle with Baroque coloratura, and most Baroque specialists probably can't project over a Wagnerian orchestra.
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You can feel Ms. Lange giving her all to each of her big set pieces, but they often feel too exquisitely self-contained, like coloratura arias in an opera.
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Patrice Munsel, a coloratura soprano who as a teenager became one of the Metropolitan Opera's youngest stars and later crossed over into television and musical theater, died on Aug.
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The vocally challenging Isabella — requiring nimble coloratura and a certain earthiness in the form of a grounded low register — had been planned for the American mezzo-soprano Elizabeth DeShong.
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She had some good reasons: Her young voice was lusher and more velvety than most Lucias; the part's florid coloratura was difficult for her; her upper range was insecure.
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The coloratura soprano Pretty Yende was wonderful as Marie, the orphaned baby who was adopted by a French army regiment and raised as their honorary daughter (hence the title).
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The performer's hands, isolated on a screen, have a life of their own, the long, slender fingers nervously, gracefully, twitching and fluttering, climbing the air in a kind gestural coloratura.
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His eye-rolling, pantomiming performance sometimes grew exhausting, but vocally, he remained focused and resonant in every angle and turn of the sometimes preposterous coloratura passages Rossini assigned to him.
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"Blue," which you can hear in this recording from the recital, is shamelessly a torch song — light years from the fiery coloratura of "Giovanna d'Arco," but just as compellingly sung.
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"The soprano Angela Meade gives her gutsiest Met performance since 'Norma' in 2013, her coloratura fireworks amplifying her pride, guilt and fear," Zachary Woolfe wrote in his review for The Times.
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The second option would make it easier to execute the coloratura roulades during this, well, ecstatic music, but Ms. Yende preferred for the two women to twirl together, like impish schoolgirls.
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The soprano Erin Morley brought impressive coloratura technique and a sumptuous sound to her vibrant performance as Angelica, while the velvety colorings of Sasha Cooke's ample mezzo-soprano were ideal for Medoro.
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Critic's Pick For a coloratura soprano, the Fire Aria from Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges" — high runs and Queen of the Night histrionics — is a perfect showcase for technical wizardry and spunk.
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Two retired actresses who live in the apartment beneath, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, are portrayed as divas of a certain age who issue Cassandra-like pronouncements about fate in high-voltage coloratura.
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At the end of the first long strand of leaping coloratura passagework, with the high F's nailed, Popp has enough breath remaining to sustain the final note for its full rhythmic value. Amazing.
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She has learned to pare away crowd-pleasing vocal stunts like executing perfect coloratura duets with a flute and simply singing from the heart, which she did with warmth, balance, sensitivity and perfect intonation.
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At the Walker, where audiences were on three sides of the space, live musicians — singer and double bass — delivered wonderfully weird displays, ranging from jazz coloratura to rasping edginess, ideally heightening the suspenseful atmosphere.
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Yet the way Ms. Bartoli shapes the supple phrases and dispatches the dazzling coloratura roulades, combined with the gleam in her observant eyes, suggests that Isabella will soon figure out how to handle the situation.
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In the podium Mr. Santi upheld a traditionalist approach that called for close adherence to the score and a gentle but firm insistence that singers avoid exaggerated flights of coloratura and prolonged showstopping high notes.
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The one odd piece of casting was of the physically imposing Russian bass Ildar Abdrazakov as the villainous Assur: he skated over coloratura passages and tended to fade out at the lower end of his voice.
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SABINE DEVIEILHE Her presence on the European opera scene increasing practically by the month, this coloratura soprano comes to Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in a gentler mode, with songs by Debussy, Fauré, Canteloube and others. Jan.
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A coloratura soprano who personified the pert appeal of a 1950s ingénue, she appeared on Broadway in only a handful of shows, but twice she followed Miss Martin in a Tony-winning musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
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He was referring to Ms. Sutherland's technical expertise in bel canto opera, the style that flourished during the late 18th and early 19th centuries and was characterized by long vocal lines rich with passagework and coloratura embellishments.
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She's a very busy bee — I wish Mr. Dzama's winged outfit let us see her coloratura steps better — but she has nothing to do with how a cuckoo sings or flies, let alone how a cuckoo clock functions.
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Leyna Gabriele, a lyric coloratura soprano who became a fan-club idol for playing the title role in the first production of the tragic rags-to-riches-to-rags opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe," died on Oct.
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She reprises those coloratura feats in "The Exterminating Angel" as Leticia, an opera diva, in a part that reaches up to an A above high C. And the piece is well aware of its place in the tradition.
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The effect is like moving through the botanical realization of a symphony — one section ends and the next begins, so that while you experience the garden as a whole, there are certain passages brighter with coloratura than others.
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After twenty distinguished years, the Caramoor festival's Bel Canto at Caramoor series, conceived by the scholar and conductor Will Crutchfield, will come to a close this summer, ending a glorious run of trills, roulades, and high-flying coloratura fireworks.
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SABINE DEVIEILHE Increasingly prominent in Europe, this dramatically acute coloratura soprano makes her North American recital debut with a program of French songs in the ornate environs of the Board of Officers Room at the Park Avenue Armory. Oct.
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The fish sounds blend with electronically processed samples of Mr. Gehry's speaking voice to add a sci-fi gleam to a score that also calls for two coloratura sopranos who produce wordless vocalizations from different points in the hall.
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Ransacking his own works — and the works of others — for melodies, he created an exuberant yet sensitive score, the characters slowing to express their true feelings before exploding once more into dazzling coloratura bursts of deception and double-dealing.
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Among much else, she'll dance a new work by the tap choreographer Michelle Dorrance and two items by Balanchine, the "Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux," with Mr. Cirio, and the coloratura show piece "Divertimento Brillante," with Joseph Gordon (City Ballet).
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There, in the darkened hall, she sang "Der Hölle Rache" ("Hell's Vengeance"), the Queen of the Night's aria from "The Magic Flute," which, with its fiendish series of high F's, is among the canonical texts of the coloratura repertory.
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Fresh from her riveting portrayal of King Henry's ill-fated queen in "Anna Bolena," an interpretation notable for her coloratura technique and emotive power, the soprano Sondra Radvanovsky turns her attention to "Maria Stuarda," the second work in Donizetti's Tudor trilogy.
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For the Saturday matinee, James Levine conducts John Dexter's creaky 1979 production of Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" ("The Abduction From the Seraglio"), with a cast that includes the soprano Albina Shagimuratova — who navigates Konstanze's coloratura hurdles with aplomb.
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In arias, the coloratura writing is often intense, so that — as in some Handel operas, only more so — each character plunges at once into a vortex of emotion conveyed by the knots and chains of the rapid-moving vocal line.
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In the title role of the queen who murders her husband and unwittingly tries to marry her son, the soprano Angela Meade gives her gutsiest Met performance since "Norma" in 2013, her coloratura fireworks amplifying her pride, guilt and fear.
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A young lyric soprano, Ms. Harteros was at that point concentrating on Mozart and the lighter Verdi; one of the things she sang in the final round in Cardiff was the famous "Sempre libera" from "La Traviata," with its insouciant coloratura.
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Comparing the high coloratura soprano of her best-known early signature song, "Glitter and Be Gay" from "Candide," with the lower, richer alto singing of her autumnal signature song, "Here's to Life," it's difficult to believe they are emanating from the same voice.
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Ms. Boylston — with her sparkling, ebullient feet, her gift for dancing coloratura steps as if in bliss, and the marvelous liveliness of her torso — seizes on all the trickiest period features of the unfamiliar steps that Mr. Ratmansky has restored to Petipa's choreography.
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Handel gives Semele (the soprano Brenda Rae) a pair of arias: a tender, lyrical plea to Jupiter to inform her of what to do; and the bravura "The Morning Lark," in which her ecstatic desires are expressed in streams of twittering, coloratura runs.
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Like most cabalettas, "Ah bello a me ritorna" includes a profusion of coloratura, but Bellini makes the piece even more daunting by gradually adding more and more ornamentation as it progresses, until the final pages are a blaze of scales and trills.
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Indeed, when the soprano Kathryn Lewek, as the Queen of the Night, sang her character's dazzling and demonic aria, many people started clapping halfway through, right after she dispatched the famous music's bursts of coloratura passagework with eerie ease and enormous sound.
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Her screeching, off-pitch desecrations of Mozart's "Queen of the Night" aria from "The Magic Flute," the Bellini aria "Casta Diva" from "Norma" and other coloratura showpieces are accurately captured in a movie that gleefully lays waste to the pretensions of highbrow musical culture.
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One of the most remarkable features of that evening was her fluent coloratura, which, in "Begone, my fears," was free of the intrusive aspiration to which so many singers resort in the hope of coping with the demanding roulades found so often in Handel.
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As mutilating young boys for musical ends mercifully died out in the late 1800s, Ms. Hallenberg's exceptionally wide-ranging, ruby-color mezzo, with its serene legato and jaw-dropping coloratura, has inevitably made her a go-to artist for revivals of such long-unperformed works.
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He plays chess and talks Marxism with Bertolt Brecht (the imperious tenor Andreas Conrad), quarrels over Zionism with the kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem (the insistent bass Tigran Martirossian) and dreams of proletarian children's theater with his Latvian mistress, Asja Lacis (the charged coloratura soprano Lini Gong).
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"Divertimento Brillante," an exquisite high-classical pas de deux created by Balanchine in 1967 to Glinka's variations on love music from Act One of Bellini's "La Sonnambula" and danced here by Ms. Peck and Mr. Fairchild, is a piece of lyrical dance coloratura made for Patricia McBride and Edward Villella.
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Roberta Peters, the Bronx-born coloratura soprano who at 20 was catapulted to stardom by a phone call, a subway ride and a Metropolitan Opera debut — her first public performance anywhere — all in the space of five hours, died on Wednesday at her home in Rye, N.Y. She was 86.
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The coloratura soprano Audrey Luna, whose stratospheric upper range was put to use by Mr. Adès in his previous opera "The Tempest" (presented at the Met in 2012) excels as Leticia, an opera singer who had starred in the performance the guests have attended: The dinner party is in her honor.
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She brought a mellow, unaffected delivery and finely contoured coloratura to selections from cantatas, oratorios and operas, including "Juditha Triumphans" (which will come in its entirety to Carnegie Hall as part of next season's Venice festival), "Orlando Furioso" and "L'incoronazione di Dario," sometimes allowing her voice to nestle inside the orchestral textures.
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Mr. Sullivan quotes Mr. Boutté, a New Orleans native, and other musicians and historians about the influence of the coloratura soprano Luisa Tetrazzini on Louis Armstrong's way of playing long, lyrical lines; the crosscurrents between Sicilian immigrant street bands and New Orleans jazz ensembles; and the common sensuality between Italian opera and Dixieland.
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" In the 1990s, Ms. Dessay rose to coloratura fame in the opera world for the vividness and commitment of her acting, both in comic roles (she was brilliant as the doll Olympia in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" and the spunky Zerbinetta in "Ariadne auf Naxos) and tragic ones (she opened the Metropolitan Opera's 2007-08 season in "Lucia di Lammermoor").
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She manages to avoid shrillness in what she aptly calls the "Wagnerian coloratura spectacle" that is her final "Exterminating Angel" aria, a flood of sustained superhigh sound up to F. Even if nothing in previous Met history has equaled her high A, other singers have come close, sometimes adding unwritten interpolations and transpositions to show off their personal stratospheres.
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In spite of a brilliant presentation that September of Handel's "Giulio Cesare," starring the bass baritone Norman Treigle and the coloratura soprano Beverly Sills — "one of those legendary events of opera history," Waleson says — it wasn't long before operating an opera company for the nonrich, right next door to the opera house of the superrich, became a mission impossible.
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It could all be a bit much at times, and Ms. DiDonato's burnished tone, especially in Purcell's incomparably moving lament "When I am laid in earth" (from "Dido and Aeneas"), and blazing coloratura, especially in Niccolò Jommelli's spitfire aria "Par che di giubilo" (from "Attilio Regolo"), carried most of the freight dramatically as well as musically.
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The daffy libretto, however, inspired Julian Wachner, best known as the director of music and the arts at Trinity Wall Street, to create an explosively, virtuosically eclectic score, with the pummeling perpetual motion of John Adams, the burbling angularity and dark comedy of Stephen Sondheim, the arpeggios of Philip Glass, and the coloratura of Handel — all thrown into a blender with some amphetamines.
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Ms. Jean started singing for an audience when she was quite young, first appearing on local radio in her native Scranton, Pa. She was trained as a coloratura soprano and brought a ringing, nimble voice and a crowd-pleasing wholesomeness to the many musicals in which she appeared at a time in Hollywood when child stars like Shirley Temple and Micky Rooney were box-office gold.
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As part of its 240-piece Coloratura collection celebrating all the colors of the world, Cartier visited Africa (its Kanaga set inspired by masks featured shield-shaped diamonds, pink and orange spinels and rubies), Eastern Europe (Afghan emeralds were teamed with rubellites in a necklace without any visible metal work to look like the moving folds of a traditional Hungarian skirt) and Japan (a standout mosaic bracelet in diamonds, onyx and cabochon opals around a 33-carat tourmaline was inspired by the Matsuri festival lanterns).
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