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- noun Plural form of
mezzo-soprano .
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Now I find myself part of a jabbering community of several hundred blogs, operated by critics, composers, conductors, pianists, double-bassists, oboists (I count five), artistic administrators, and noted mezzo-sopranos (Joyce DiDonato writes under the moniker Yankee Diva).
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It's hard to tell if the fellow is speaking to Ms. Cook or to the woman who posted immediately before him a member of the Symphony Chorus who has excellent taste in mezzo-sopranos, but it's a bit disconcerting.
Social Networking Redux Lisa Hirsch 2009
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Modern-day mezzo-sopranos and contraltos may have to dig a bit deeper in the library or labor for days with transposing, but should stand firm when countertenors and sopranos try to push them off the stage - or push back.
Archive 2007-01-01 Celeste Winant 2007
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Typically these roles are sung by younger singers and both sopranos and mezzo-sopranos are cast in them...
Out of the Mouths of Babes Dodie Bellamy 2009
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He attributed this to the marketplace: he writes for the performers who commission him, and most of his vocal commissions have been from sopranos and mezzo-sopranos.
Tanglewood Festival: Male Singers Need Not Apply - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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We know that by the height of G.F. Handel's career, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos were finally recognized on the public stage, and music from that time on seems to fill the gap in tessitura (the general range within which the notes of a piece lie).
Archive 2007-01-01 Celeste Winant 2007
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We know that by the height of G.F. Handel's career, mezzo-sopranos and contraltos were finally recognized on the public stage, and music from that time on seems to fill the gap in tessitura (the general range within which the notes of a piece lie).
A Mezzo-soprano Manifesto Celeste Winant 2007
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Supporting mezzo-sopranos Sandra Piques Eddy and Laura Vlasek Nolen provided expert comedy and pathos in the roles of Charmian and Iras.
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Modern-day mezzo-sopranos and contraltos may have to dig a bit deeper in the library or labor for days with transposing, but should stand firm when countertenors and sopranos try to push them off the stage - or push back.
A Mezzo-soprano Manifesto Celeste Winant 2007
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He attributed this to the marketplace: he writes for the performers who commission him, and most of his vocal commissions have been from sopranos and mezzo-sopranos.
Tanglewood Festival: Male Singers Need Not Apply - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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