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- noun Plural form of
mezzo .
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Examples
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The next wave of great American lyric mezzos was represented by Susan Graham and Joyce DiDonato.
Singing Into Retirement David Littlejohn 2012
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What's most remarkable, though, is how they blend with the altos and sopranos and mezzos as a cohesive unit that together frames and forms sweet melodies.
Danny Groner: Voca People: Music from a Foreign Land Danny Groner 2011
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But apart from sentimental considerations, she was a great singer with a very distinctive mezzo-soprano voice — lighter and brighter than a contralto, but darker and more mature-sounding than most of the mezzos of today.
Jaime Weinman 2010
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Wolfgang Koch's powerfully sung Telramund, Michaela Schuster's Ortrud (wonderfully detailed in her conniving allure, and relatively free of the harshness so many mezzos bring to this role), Christof Fischesser's anxious, supple-toned Heinrich, and a notably forthright Herald from Russian baritone Evgeny Nikitin complete this unusually fine cast.
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Furthermore, everyone is clearly very patient with the disheveled and scratchy-voiced Zucker, whose erratic interviewing pinballs between elementary questions on breathing techniques to inane inquiries on whether mezzos have stronger sexual stamina than sopranos.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2008
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"You know," this matron told Bill, "Mr. Bing can bring us the mezzos and the coloraturas and the altos, but only God can bring us a tenor."
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Celeste's Scramblings: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! skip to main | skip to sidebar
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008
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(Reading) The sisters 'voices were almost identical, laughing mezzos, tuned in childhood to the same pitch and timbre.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008
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If you leave out half the choir -- sopranos, mezzos and altos -- you get a very odd bass and tenor tune that becomes the norm.
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