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mezzo, mezzo forte: half loud.
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That's between an alto and a soprano.
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Frequently, we've had here at Yale Frederica von Stade.
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She's a good example of a mezzo-soprano,
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sneaking up in to the soprano range.
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Then we have a soprano voice called the lyric soprano
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so we're up in the high part of the female range,
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the lyric soprano, lovely sound, a smooth sound.
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We also have a soprano called a dramatic soprano
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and these are voices like Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson
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and more recently Jane Eaglen,
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Deborah Voigt.