soprano

soprano

The highest range of the female voice; lyric soprano is warm, graceful; dramatic soprano is fuller and heaver, e.g. A lyric soprano role would be Mimí in Puccini’s La Bohème, a dramatic soprano would be Abigaille in Verdi’s Nabucco.

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