Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-12-03 22:33
<<does anybody ever heared DARK soprano voice?>>
Oh, yes! Yes, indeed! There are just about as many varieties of soprano voice as there are sopranos!
Just offhand, I am aware of categories of the soprano voice routinely categorized as being "dramatic", "lyric", "coloratura"," "spinto" -- and I am sure there are more, as well as gradations of these. The dramatic soprano is indeed a dark voice, while the lyric is perhaps more singing in character, the coloratura lighter and more agile in character, and the spinto produced with a more forward focus.
Often, you will hear someone described as a "light lyric" soprano -- which is somewhere between coloratura and lyric. And then there is the mezzo-coloratura (which was my own particular realm), which is a distinct vocal type, but sometimes difficult to differentiate from a lyric soprano.
The same sort of categorization happens in other vocal categories. There must be even more kinds of tenors than there are sopranos! (Just spent the weekend at the Lyric Opera in Chicago, immensely enjoying a phenomenal production of Handel's Julius Caesar which featured no fewer than three (count 'em!) fabulous COUNTERTENORS -- which, if you didn't know what you were listening to, might well be confused with a mezzo-soprano.)
So -- the oboe voice has its colors, as well, don't you think?
Susan
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