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Definition of Coloraturas
1. coloratura [n] - See also: coloratura
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coloraturas
Literary usage of Coloraturas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"... and each of the vintage coloraturas winds up on the last note of all her songs
by shaking herself like a wet dog and suddenly throwing open her arms ..."
2. A Dictionary of Musical Terms: Containing Upwards of 9,000 English, French by Theodore Baker (1895)
"... coloraturas, making it follow throughout the course and sense of the action.—The
grand or heroic opera, with its full choruses and finales, ..."
3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"... ranking as one of the world's foremost coloraturas, debut June 3, 1877, Athens,
as " Elvira " in " Puri- tani"; thereafter acquiring many ..."
4. The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls by George Jean Nathan (1921)
"... by hereditary toothpick suckers, soup coloraturas and six-day sock wearers,
controlled in the mass by men of a complete anesthesia to everything fine ..."
5. Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Covering the Entire Period of by Leander Jan De Bekker (1908)
"... ranking as one of the world's foremost coloraturas, debut June 3, 1877, Athens,
as " Elvira " in " Puri- tani " ; thereafter acquiring many roles, ..."
6. The Theatre of the Greeks: A Series of Papers Relating to the History and edited by John William Donaldson (1849)
"... there is in the Opera so much that is unnatural ; for instance, that its
heroes, in the deepest despair, make their exits with coloraturas and quavers. ..."
7. Frederic Chopin: His Life, Letters, and Works by Moritz Karasowski, Emily Hill (1879)
"... stands as a sentinel; he calls out, " qui vive," to a woman * A reference to
the Warsaw lady singers, who often left out or altered coloraturas. ..."
8. Ten Singing Lessons by Mathilde Marchesi (1901)
"Arsace in " Semira- mide," the principal part in "l'Italiana in Algieri," require
coloraturas, but these works are no longer included in the modern ..."
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