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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.
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These are the women that sing Wagner and sing Strauss
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where you really need superhuman, large voices
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with plenty of powerful, well-focused vibrato.
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And then finally we have a voice range called the coloratura,
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the very top part of the soprano range--
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very high, tends to be light,
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tends-- if it's good--tends to be well focused.