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Thursday 25 April 2013

Ear Feast Two


Famous Coloratura soprano singers in the order of appearance:
Mado Robin (lyric coloratura, soprano acuto sfogato)
Mady Mesplé (lyric coloratura)
Lily Pons (lyric coloratura)
Silvia Voinea (lyric coloratura)
Anna Moffo (lyric coloratura)
Beverly Sills (lyric coloratura)
Luciana Serra (lyric coloratura)
Edita Gruberova (dramatic coloratura)
Joan Sutherland (dramatic coloratura)
June Anderson (dramatic coloratura)
Mariella Devia (dramatic coloratura)
Ruth Ann Swenson (lyric coloratura)
Natalie Dessay (lyric coloratura)
Elisabeth Vidal (lyric coloratura)
Diana Damrau (lyric and dramtic coloratura)
Désirée Rancatore (lyric coloratura)
Jessica Pratt (dramatic coloratura)
Maria Aleida Rodriguez (lyric coloratura)

And, of course, the first one I heard on black and white television as a child, Maria Callas