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The soubrette voice is not a weak voice, for it must carry over an orchestra without a microphone like all voices in opera. A soubrette voice is light with a bright, sweet timbre, a tessitura in the mid-range, and with no extensive coloratura. In classical music and opera, a soubrette soprano refers to both a voice type and a particular type of opera role. Dramatic coloraturas have a range of approximately 'low B' (B 3) to 'high F' (F 6) with some coloratura sopranos being able to sing somewhat higher or lower.

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The dramatic coloratura soprano is a coloratura soprano with great flexibility in high-lying velocity passages, yet with great sustaining power comparable to that of a full spinto or dramatic soprano. by Rachele Gilmore in a 2009 performance, and a written A ♮ 6 by Audrey Luna in 2017 in The Exterminating Angel, both at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. an interpolated A ♭ 6 in the Doll Aria, 'Les oiseaux dans la charmille', from The Tales of Hoffmann, e.g. Light coloraturas have a range of approximately middle C (C 4) to 'high F' ( in alt) (F 6) with some coloratura sopranos being able to sing somewhat lower or higher, e.g. The lyric coloratura soprano is a very agile light voice with a high upper extension capable of fast vocal coloratura. The coloratura soprano may be a lyric coloratura or a dramatic coloratura. A singer's tessitura is where the voice has the best timbre, easy volume, and most comfort.

Fach, from German Fach or Stimmfach, 'vocal category'). In opera, the tessitura, vocal weight, and timbre of voices, and the roles they sing, are commonly categorized into voice types, often called Fächer ( sg. While not necessarily within the tessitura, a good soprano will be able to sing her top notes full-throated, with timbre and dynamic control.

In rare cases, some coloratura roles go as high as G 6 or G ♯ 6, such as Mozart's concert aria ' Popoli di Tessaglia!', or the title role of Jules Massenet's opera Esclarmonde. In the coloratura repertoire several roles call for E ♭ 6 on up to F 6. A couple of roles have optional E ♭ 6s, as well. The high extreme, at a minimum, for non-coloratura sopranos is 'soprano C' (C 6 two octaves above middle C), and many roles in the standard repertoire call for C ♯ 6 or D 6. Low notes can be reached with a lowered position of the larynx. However, rarely is a soprano simply unable to sing a low note in a song within a soprano role. Often low notes in higher voices will project less, lack timbre, and tend to 'count less' in roles (although some Verdi, Strauss and Wagner roles call for stronger singing below the staff). Within opera, the lowest demanded note for sopranos is F 3 (from Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten ). The low extreme for sopranos is roughly A 3 or B ♭ 3 (just below middle C). A soprano and a mezzo-soprano have a similar range, but their tessituras will lie in different parts of that range. The soprano has the highest vocal range of all voice types, with the highest tessitura. The word superius was especially used in choral and other multi-part vocal music between the 13th and 16th centuries. The term 'soprano' is also based on the Latin word superius which, like soprano, referred to the highest pitch vocal range of all human voice types. 'Soprano' refers mainly to women, but it can also be applied to men ' sopranist' is the term for a male countertenor able to sing in the soprano vocal range, while a castrato is the term for a castrated male singer, typical of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, and a treble is a boy soprano who has not reached puberty yet and still able to sing in that range. The word 'soprano' comes from the Italian word sopra (above, over, on top of), as the soprano is the highest pitch human voice, often given to the leading female roles in operas. The soprano voice type is generally divided into the coloratura, soubrette, lyric, spinto, and dramatic soprano. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C 4) = 261 Hz to 'high A' (A 5) = 880 Hz in choral music, or to 'soprano C' (C 6, two octaves above middle C) = 1046 Hz or higher in operatic music. A soprano ( ) is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.