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mezzo-soprano
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mezzo-soprano: see soprano soprano [Ital.,=above], female voice of highest pitch. The three basic types of solo soprano are coloratura, lyric, and dramatic. The coloratura has a great range and impressive vocal agility; the lyric soprano has a light, pretty voice; and the dramatic soprano has
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mezzo-soprano
a female voice intermediate between a soprano and contralto and having a range from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above it


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Indeed, Te Kanawa faces stiff competition from the two mezzo-sopranos playing her relatives: Lucy Schaufer as her niece, Erika, and Rosalind Elias as her mother, the Baroness.
In many instances they assume roles that for more than a century were usurped by crossdressing female sopranos and mezzo-sopranos.
With two beloved arias, the trouser role of Cherubino has always been plum for mezzo-sopranos, and Boston native Sandra Piques Eddy assumes it enthusiastically, singing well and offering a particularly convincing portrait of a young man on hormonal red alert.
 
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