fioritura

Violetta's fioritura, Alfredo's tenor ardency, his father's baritonal sterness, the tripping flute thirds of the perennial parties and balls: all those familiar elements start to play off of each other, turning up at inappropriate moments with an ironic charge, standing in for dialogue and plot rather than simply advancing them.

Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

Violetta's fioritura, Alfredo's tenor ardency, his father's baritonal sterness, the tripping flute thirds of the perennial parties and balls: all those familiar elements start to play off of each other, turning up at inappropriate moments with an ironic charge, standing in for dialogue and plot rather than simply advancing them.

Pretty Woman Matthew Guerrieri 2008

When are you going to stop calling people who want technical proficiency in fioritura "purists"?

Archive 2009-02-01 Lisa Hirsch 2009

When are you going to stop calling people who want technical proficiency in fioritura "purists"?

Go Get Him Lisa Hirsch 2009

‘Nabucodonosore,’ with Count Pizzicato, with a bellezza, a grandezza, a raggio, that excited in the bosom of the audience a corresponding furore: her scherzando was exquisite, though we confess we thought the concluding fioritura in the passage in Y flat a leetle, a very leetle sforzata.

Mens Wives 2006

These structural noises were the only ones that counted; they were the polyphony of the Bridge, everything else was decorative and to be ignored by the Bridge operator-the fioritura shrieking of the winds, the battery of the rain, the pedal diapason of thunder, the distant grumbling roll of the stage-hand volcanoes pushing continents back and forth on castors down below.

Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

He thrived in a liberal air, an air of gorgeous spending, though he sported a supercilious smile at the _fioritura_, the luscious excess of it.

The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

The performance is so supreme -- remember, not in a niggling, technical sense -- a half-dozen men beat him at mere pyrotechnics and lace _fioritura_ -- that his limitations, very marked in his case, are overlooked.

Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

For example, how divinely you do that _fioritura_ ... that ...

Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

Their songs were low and musical, not unlike the song of the canary, though there were no cadenzas or _fioritura_ passages.

The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals James Weir 1881