Opera

Opera

Industry: Drama

Contributors in Opera

Opera

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 ...

sotto voce

Drama; Opera

A musical term that asks the performer to sing or play with less intensity, sometimes a declamatory whisper.

soubrette

Drama; Opera

A lightweight soprano voice or soprano role found in comic operas and operettas. The soubrette usually is flirtatious, savvy and often must dance and deliver dialogue. Adele in Die Fledermaus is a ...

spinto

Drama; Opera

A medium to heavy-weight voice, capable of sustained singing over a large orchestra, but also able to sing lyrically when required.

staccato

Drama; Opera

“clipped”; short, clipped, rapid articulation of pitches, the opposite of legato.

stage manager

Drama; Opera

a person who supervises the stage arrangements of a theatrical production

stage right/left

Drama; Opera

The sides of the stage from the performer’s point of view, i.e., when a singer moves down right, s/he moves right toward the edge of the stage which is the audience’s left.