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    What is the hardest coloratura legato to perform in opera?

    Question #77766. Asked by tragic_flawed. (Mar 24 07 11:34 AM)


    What-A-Mess

    		Ask Arpeggionist in an E Mail for a detailed answer. Maybe.

    Mar 24 07, 2:44 PM
    lanfranco

    		This is, of course, a matter of taste and opinion; experts do not and never will agree.

    Rather than stop at one "legato," a limited subject, I'll pick "Esclarmonde" in Massenet's opera, on the site below. Another possibility for the most difficult coloratura role would be "The Queen of Night" in Mozart's "The Magic Flute."

    Quite a few people would offer other roles and even individual arias and passages.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esclarmonde

    Mar 24 07, 5:30 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		I'm working on it. So far I think it's the role of Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss' "Adriana auf Naxus". Otherwise, I'm thinking a few bars of my own opera, "Rip van Winkle" in which the character of Judith (Rip's daughter) sings a quiet but high aria titled "And he went up into the hills..."

    Mar 24 07, 5:31 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		Though, I must add, as of this day no soprano has ever sung my aria in public. Hopefully that will change within the next few months.

    Mar 24 07, 5:32 PM
    lanfranco

    		Will you provide us with a video, Arpeggionist?

    I hope so.

    Mar 24 07, 6:04 PM

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