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  2. Prima donna - Wikipedia

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    Prima donna clipper ship card. In opera or commedia dell'arte, a prima donna (Italian: [ˈpriːma ˈdɔnna]; Italian for 'first lady'; pl.: prime donne) is the leading female singer in the company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given. Prime donne often had grand off-stage personalities and were seen as demanding of their ...

  3. List of English words of Italian origin - Wikipedia

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    Prima ballerina; Prima donna; Quartet (from Italian quartetto through French) Quintet (Italian: quintetto) Scherzo (in Italian means 'joke') Semibreve; Sextet (Italian: sestetto) Sol-fa, solfa, solfeggio, solfège (the last one through French) Solo (in Italian means 'alone') Soloist (Italian: solista) Sonata; Soprano

  4. Diva - Wikipedia

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    Diva is a name from Roman mythology, and is associated with the nouns divus, diva, which means god, goddess, and the adjective divinius, which means divine or heavenly. [5] It has often been used to refer to a celebrated woman of outstanding talent in the world of opera , theatre , cinema , fashion and popular music .

  5. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    with the (col before a masculine noun, colla before a feminine noun); (see next for example) col canto with the singer, see also colla voce col legno with the wood: for bowed strings, strike the strings with the stick of the bow (col legno battuto) or draw the stick across the strings (col legno tratto) col pugno

  6. List of Italian musical terms used in English - Wikipedia

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    Definition Campana: bell: A bell used in an orchestra; also campane "bells" Cornetto: little horn: An old woodwind instrument Fagotto: bundle: A bassoon, a woodwind instrument played with a double reed Orchestra: orchestra, orig. Greek orkesthai "dance" An ensemble of instruments Piano(forte) soft-loud: A keyboard instrument Piccolo: little: A ...

  7. Leontyne Price - Wikipedia

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    She was the first African American to sing a prima donna role in Italy's greatest opera house. (The African-American soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs had sung there two years earlier, in the seconda role of Elvira in Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri.) In Salzburg that summer, Price sang her first Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, again with Karajan. [13]

  8. Prima Donna (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Prima Donna (American band), an American rock 'n' roll band; Prima Donna (UK band), a band that represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980; Prima Donna, a 2009 opera by Rufus Wainwright; Prima Donna: A Symphonic Visual Concert, a 2015 concert by Rufus Wainwright, based on his opera

  9. Prima Donna (opera) - Wikipedia

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    Prima Donna is an opera in two acts with music by Rufus Wainwright to a French language libretto by Wainwright and Bernadette Colomine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The opera premiered at the Palace Theatre , Manchester, on 10 July 2009 at the Manchester International Festival .