I have already spoken of the bad taste exhibited by some mediocre singers in covering a coloratura air with so many roulades, etc.
Emma Thursby, a high coloratura soprano, was with us.
It used to be that Tetrazzinis could make successes through coloratura singing alone; but to-day coloratura singing has no great hold on the public after the novelty has worn off.
Coloratura singing has been called heartless, not altogether without reason.
Her sister, Carlotta, was also a coloraturavocalist of exquisite technique.
In coloratura rôles she has been pronounced the greatest singer of her time, both in opera and concert.
Fountains that tossed upcoloratura bubbles of sheerest aria and a sort of Greek frieze of youth attitudinized toward herself.
The state of her invariable vocal exultation began to mount, her consciousness of scene to recede, and, anticipating her coloratura climax, she started to climb, building for warble.
Each and all of these may feel the dramatic spirit of the part, but the lighter quality of the voice may prevent the coloratura from expressing it.
The coloratura singer, who is an artist, can act as well as sing.
Coloratura voices have not so much opportunity at the present time, unless they are quite out of the ordinary.
The coloratura voice is bright and brilliant in its higher portion, but becomes weaker and thinner as it descends; whereas the dramatic voice has a thicker, richer quality all through, especially in its lower register.
Among their many artist pupils who are making names for themselves, it may be mentioned that Florence Macbeth, a charming coloratura soprano, owes much of her success to their careful guidance.
I think every dramatic singer should cultivate coloratura to some extent--should study smooth legato scales and passages.
But after all I think, for myself, I prefer the lyric and coloratura parts, they are so beautiful.
The coloratura voice will sing upper C, and it will sound very high indeed.
We would not have all coloratura singing of the same pattern of sameness or quality, for we find uniformity is monotonous.
Again, thecoloratura singer is not obliged to stand in the middle of the stage, while she warbles beautiful tones, with seemingly little regard for the rôle she is enacting.
Here you have the 'Technical' or 'Coloratura Hand.
Then there are the down and up arm movements, for chords, and, of course, scale and arpeggio work, with coloratura touch.
The player, however, who desires a clean, reliable technic, should first acquire a coloratura hand before attempting a melody hand.
For the technical or coloratura touch, the hand is in arched position, the five fingers are well rounded and curved, their tips are on the keys, everything is rounded.
In particular when it comes to one of them operas with a coloratura soprano in it, y'understand, it seemed to me they could of cut down on the working time without hurting the quality of the goods in the slightest.
I must say that most of them reached this desirable consummation long before the coloratura soprano, for she continued placidly as long as there was any food in sight.
The coloratura soprano was a Dutch woman, speaking German with more accent than I did.
Singing on the breath and coloratura are indeed very closely allied.
This critic asserts that the decline of coloratura singing is due to the indifference of the artists themselves to this style of singing.
Dazzling as the effects of coloratura are, they are obtained by the combination of a few simple elements.
The modern school of musical criticism does not hold coloratura singing in very high esteem.
This is true not only of coloratura singing; it applies with almost equal force to the use of the singing voice for the purpose of dramatic and emotional expression.
But this much is certain: Coloratura singing still has a strong hold on the affections of the music loving public.
Extreme rapidity and accuracy of muscular adjustments, the physical basis of coloratura singing, cannot be attained when the muscles are hampered by undue tension.
All that can be found by such an investigator in the works of Tosi and Mancini is an outline of an elaborate system of coloratura singing.
Yet it may well be asked whether the highest type of coloratura singing, pure tonal beauty, does not appeal to a deeper, more elemental set of emotions than are reached by dramatically expressive singing.
Coloratura singing, to be absolutely perfect, demands this degree of tonal excellence.
Robert blushed, Janet's two rows of long lashes parted wider, and Cornelia gave a queer coloratura laugh.
Thereafter in Danzig I sang from eighteen to twenty times a month in coloratura and soubrette parts; also in Leipzig, and later, fifteen years in Berlin.
Too much coloratura singing is liable to rob the voice of its fullness and is not to be recommended as a preparation for the singer who would become a singer of the modern art songs.
In fact the flexibility and control demanded of the singers of art songs are quite as great as that required of the coloratura singer.
He had heard me sing in Italy, and immediately took me to Maestro Campanini, who was looking then for a coloratura soprano to sing for only two performances in Chicago, as the remainder of his program was filled for the year.
Lilli Lehmann, Schumann-Heink, Nordica and others were capable of singing fine coloratura passages before they undertook the works of the great master of Beyreuth.
From personal observation I should say our coloratura charmers lay small emphasis on that highly important factor and use their head voices with a freedom more or less God given.
Galli-Curci, she clearly shows the value of her instrumental training in the accuracy, precision and clarity of her coloratura work.
Like myself, she was a coloratura soprano, and I can recollect with joy her voice and her method of singing.
Most of the great Wagnerian singers have been proficient in coloratura roles before they undertook the more complicated parts of the great master at Beyreuth.
Bernice de Pasquali, who succeeded Marcella Sembrich as coloratura soprano at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, is not an Italian, as her name suggests, but an American.
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