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A mezzo-soprano (meaning "medium" or "middle" "soprano" in Italian) is a female singer whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e. A3-A5 in scientific pitch notation, where middle C = C4). While mezzo-sopranos generally have a heavier, darker tone than sopranos, the mezzo-soprano voice resonates in a higher range than that of a contralto. The terms Dugazon and Galli-Marié are sometimes used to refer to light mezzo-sopranos, after the names of famous singers. A castrato with a mezzo-soprano range was also called a mezzo-soprano castrato or mezzista.Mezzo-sopranos typically sing secondary roles in operas, with the protagonist in Bizet's Carmen and Rosina in Rossini's Barber of Seville as the most notable exceptions. Typical roles for mezzo-sopranos include witches, nurses, and wise women such as Azucena in Verdi's Il trovatore; trouser role (male characters played by female singers) such as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro; and villains and seductresses such as Amneris in Verdi's Aida. Mezzo-sopranos are also well represented in baroque music, early music and baroque opera, they are sometimes cast in soubrette roles if a more dramatic sound is desired, and some of the lower-tessitura soprano roles can be sung by mezzos as well. In current operatic practice, contraltos are also counted as mezzo-sopranos. For the different types of mezzo-sopranos, see voice type.Some roles designated for lighter soubrette sopranos are sung by mezzo sopranos, who often provide a fuller, more dramatic quality. Such roles include Despina in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Mezzos also sometimes play dramatic soprano roles such as Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, Lady Macbeth in Verdi's Macbeth, and Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 28/08/2007
Band Members: Irina Arkhipova Janet Baker Agnes Baltsa Fedora Barbieri Cecilia Bartoli Teresa Berganza Olga Borodina Grace Bumbry Fiorenza Cossotto Brigitte Fassbaender Maria Gay Vivica Genaux Rita Gorr Susan Graham Denyce Graves Marilyn Horne Vesselina Kasarova Magdalena Ko--ená Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Christa Ludwig Waltraud Meier Nan Merriman Anne Sofie von Otter Regina Resnik Giulietta Simionato Frederica von Stade Risë Stevens Conchita Supervía Tatiana Troyanos Shirley Verrett Dolora Zajick Maria Ewing Jennifer Larmore
Sounds Like: Mezzo-soprano lead roles in operasCarmen, Carmen (Bizet) Cenerentola, La Cenerentola (Rossini) Charlotte, Werther (Massenet) Dalila, Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) Dido, Les Troyens (Berlioz) Hänsel, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) -- trouser role Judith, Bluebeard's Castle (Bartók) Rosina, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini) Mignon, Mignon (Ambroise Thomas) [edit] Other mezzo-soprano roles in operas Adalgisa, Norma (Bellini) Amneris, Aïda (Verdi) Azucena, Il trovatore (Verdi) Brangäne, Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) The Countess, The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky) Dorabella, Così fan tutte (Mozart) Fricka, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre (Wagner) Herodias, Salome (Richard Strauss) Klytemnästra, Elektra (Richard Strauss) Laura, La Gioconda (Ponchielli) Mallika, Lakmé (Leo Delibes) -- Features a popular piece, Dôme épais - The Flower Duet, sung by Mallika and Lakme Marina, Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) Olga, Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) Ortrud, Lohengrin (Wagner) Preziosilla, La forza del destino (Verdi) Princess Eboli, Don Carlos (Verdi) Venus, Tannhäuser (Wagner) -- Sometimes performed by the soprano who sings Elisabeth. The Witch, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) [edit] Mezzo-soprano trouser roles in operas Cherubino, Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) Idamante, Idomeneo (Mozart) Nicklausse, Les contes d'Hoffmann (Offenbach) -- though he is the (female) Muse in disguise Octavian, Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss) Ratmir, Ruslan and Lyudmila - designated as a contralto part Siebel, Faust (Gounod)
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