Crossword clues for coloratura
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"Ornamental passages, roulades, embellishments, etc., in vocal music" [Elson], 1740, from Italian coloratura, literally "coloring," from Late Latin coloratura, from colorare "to color," from color (see color (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to #Noun. n. 1 (context uncountable English) florid or fancy passages in vocal music. 2 (context countable English) a singer of such passages, especially a soprano
WordNet
n. a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music [syn: coloratura soprano]
singing with florid ornamentation
Wikipedia
Coloratura has several meanings: The word is originally from Italian, literally meaning "coloring", and derives from the Latin word colorare ("to color"). When used in English, the term specifically refers to elaborate melody, particularly in vocal music and especially in operatic singing of the 18th and 19th centuries, with runs, trills, wide leaps, or similar virtuoso-like material. Its instrumental equivalent is ornamentation. It is also now widely used to refer to passages of such music, operatic roles in which such music plays a prominent part, and singers of these roles. (See also bel canto.)
Usage examples of "coloratura".
That marvelous coloratura, entombed on laser-read record flecks, was preserved forever while the singer herself was silenced, sacrificed along with so many other things for the alleged greater good of the Human Polity of the Galactic Milieu.
He didn't know where the hell they all came from, he said, since there didn't used to be a coloratura come along more than once every ten years.
She pretended to muffle a coloratura hiccup and said, “I think you're cute.
It would not have occurred to her that it was curious for a female to sing bass, baritone, tenor, mezzo, soprano, and coloratura as she pleased.
Merelan not only had superb breath control to support her coloratura voice, she could also imbue such emotion in her tone that there were many tears in their eyes when her voice trailed off as Moreta and her dragon jumped between on their last, fatal transfer.
The elaborate music of his father had to be put aside since there were no coloraturas available, though he managed to get Halanna to come and sing at Turn's End, reworking a ballad so he could sing with her.
No one I remember still lives there except Madame Sapphia Spanella, a husky coloratura who every afternoon went roller-skating in Central Park.
At one point, Madame Sapphia Spanella, the coloratura and roller-skating enthusiast who lived on the first floor, circulated a petition among the brownstone's other tenants asking them to join her in having Miss Golightly evicted: she was, said Madame Spanella, "morally objectionable" and the "perpetrator of all-night gatherings that endangered the safety and sanity of her neighbors.
As the overstuffed diners gazed at the concoction of cream, chocolate, and nuts, the coloratura aria coming from the speakers was the Mad Scene from Lucia.
He had accompanied the dialogue with a coloratura obbligato particular to Siamese vocal cords.
Every man who drives a racing-car has a coloratura soprano beaten to death for temperament.
All through the coloratura she was accompanied by sighs, and its top note was drowned in a shout of universal joy.
I got three coloraturas, two pianists and five Broadway baritones making appearances for "our boys" tonight.
The elaborate music of his father had to be put aside since there were no coloraturas available, though he managed to get Halanna to come and sing at Turn's End, reworking a ballad so he could sing with her.
If the horse has been given an enema an hour before curtain time, and there are enough people to lead it, even a coloratura soprano should be able to stick on its back long enough for a very pretty effect.