Many opera heroines

Usage examples of sopranos.

Petiron did smile more frequently, if mainly at the sopranos and altos, and he did praise the trebles more often.

The names of Emma Eames, Amelita Galli-Curci, Geraldine Farrar, Louise Homer, Luisa Tetrazzini and Ernestine Schumann-Heink were used very freely, and startling comparisons drawn, without much regard for whether these ladies had been sopranos or contraltos.

In her capacity as a very minor soloist she rose and sat with the choir, and sang with the sopranos, keeping her voice well down, both that she might not make mistakes through lack of rehearsal, and that its superior quality should not singularize it among the amateur choristers.

After a really good performance, sopranos would find a box of chocolates in their dressing-­room, that sort of thing.