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This is a chronological list of sopranos who have performed in operas from classical music of the Western world. The list spans from operatic sopranos active in the first operas of the late 16th century to singers currently performing. Singers who have recorded opera arias or sung them in concert but have never performed in an opera are not ...
Pages in category "Soprano arias" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adele's Laughing Song;
Recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra: Metastasio L'Olimpiade III,6: 24 February 1778 316: 300b "Popoli di Tessaglia! ... Io non chiedo, eterni Dei" (Score/Crit. report) Recitative and aria for soprano and orchestra: Ranieri de' Calzabigi Alceste I,2: 8 January 1779 365a "Zittre, töricht Herz" Aria for soprano and orchestra (lost)
Among the more well-known of Mozart's concert arias are: "Popoli di Tessaglia!", K. 316, for soprano, with its two famous G 6 notes (i.e., the G above high C - according to the Guinness Book of Records, the highest musical note ever scored for the human voice) that come shortly before the end.
Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and traditional folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias. She possesses a "crystalline" voice [2] and wide vocal range, sweeping down from mezzo-soprano notes, in arias such as Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix from Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila, to the F natural above ...
Anna Moffo was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [2] to Italian immigrant parents, Nicola Moffo (a shoemaker) and his wife, Regina (née Cinti) Moffo. After graduating from Radnor High School, Anna turned down an offer to go to Hollywood and instead attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Eufemia Giannini-Gregory, sister of soprano Dusolina Giannini.
Other composers with atonal pieces include Harrison Birtwistle & Peter Maxwell Davies, [54] Jacob Druckman, Barbara Kolb, [55] Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Brian Ferneyhough, [56] Alexander Goehr, [57] Lou Harrison, Mårten Hagström, Paul Hindemith, Karel Husa, Charles Ives, György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski, George Perle, [58] Sergei Prokofiev, David Raksin, [59] Nikolai Roslavets, [60 ...
Angela Gheorghiu (Romanian: [anˈdʒela ɡe̯orˈɡi.u] ⓘ; née Burlacu; born 7 September 1965) is a Romanian soprano, [1] especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini and Verdi, widely recognised by critics and opera lovers as one of the greatest sopranos of all time.