The Coloratura Soprano
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Elizabeth Zharoff is an international opera singer and voice coach, with 3 degrees in voice, opera, and music production. She's performed in 18 languages throughout major venues in Europe, America, and Asia. Currently based somewhere between Los Angeles and Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth spends her days researching voice, singing, teaching, writing music, and recording TONS. She also plays Diablo and Dungeons & Dragons.
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Ahh, the bird sometimes known as Birb... You know folks, Birb is the Worb... 🤣🤣
I heard that crazy high sound you made! That metallic, silvery flute like sound is unmistakably Soprano.
When l try to see sing super high like Soprano, l know l sound different because I'm a contralto. A warmer color,a bit heavier. It's got a hooty quality, not very subtle at all. Sort of like a plastic recorder everybody had to learn to play in grade school
@@arxsyn that just means you have a massive sound that can overpower an orchestra if need be lol
Second video of yours i watched tonight and now im hooked! Great information and a love of music comes through strong! Cheers!
Hi. I just found yr channel today after seeing yr review of Iron Maiden and Hallowed Be Thy Name, and wandered back to yr older videos because I am a singer who hasn't sung seriously for slightly more than 30 yrs, outside the radio in the car.
I am a HUGE fan of The Original Phantom of the Opera, and despite being a natural alto, my singing teacher has given me the new London cast recording in late '86, realizing I was getting bored with the Latin arias for my vocal exercises.
Long story short, he said to me "learn Christine's part." He wanted my voice to be the main anchor for our 50-mbr highschool chorus group and he also knew my gothic sensibilities! Well, after a year of grueling work, I finally hit and got on top of her HIGH E, with perfect pitch after losing my voice twice during those 12 months. But ultimately, I did it and was proud. I was so good that I was lined up to go audition for Hal Prince himself in '88 when the company landed on Broadway, but plans fell thru and I was, naturally; DEVASTATED! Yes because I could not sing for Hal, but missed my chance to hear and watch Michael Crawford live, for three nights in a row, back in those days! 😭😭😭
Anyway, is Sarah a Coloratura or a mezzo? She could easily negotiate the upper register but I've heard her sing low, or rather LOWER, very well.
Oh and have you ever reacted to either her or Mr. Crawford (?), who for a male has THE most heavenly voice and really IS an "Angel of Music." Please listen to the album and especially "Music of the Night." A hauntingly beautiful piece and one he has negotiated better than anyone else following in his shoes!
Thanks very much. I look forward to your tutilege. I am getting back into acting and I need to work on my voice quite a bit. Any advice for one so long out of daily practice, except finding a good vocal exercise and just get back into it?
Thank you.
You have really persevered. Happy to see your channel’s sudden growth :)
i love your channel so much, i always learn a lot and am introduced to new music
Thank you very much for the information! As a passioned guy for music such as I am, it's all learning from your videos!
The Lucia excerpt is actually her 2nd and final scene, the mad scene. The first aria is Regnava Silenzio
You are an amazing teacher! Thank you. :)
That opening... my first love, Olympia's Aria!
The Fifth Element! My fav! Love it.
At the start of this I was hoping you'd mention the Fifth Element. Lol I'm not an opera person but when you described the vocal type I immediately thought of that movie.
The queen of the night is my absolute favorite, the first time I heard it was on a recording and I swore it had to be a flute playing to achieve that perfect, clear tone and pitch...just my opinion
Should've mentioned Christine Daaé from The Phantom of the Opera!! Maybe Sarah's not a coloratura, but a huge amount of the character's singers through the years have been coloraturas.
Very true! Sarah doesn't sound like a coloratura to me, but I know quite a few coloratura who have worked on the role of Christine.
I think it’s a light lyric soprano xo
@@TheCharismaticVoice yes and no. She is much warmer then a colratura. Her voice spans over more then 3 octaves. She does reach as high as E6 and has a good whistle register. Her most famous songs are not coloratura, but she does it on occation. But Carlotta is the more typical coloratura in phantom, the one Christine gets to replace.
@@runareinert325 Sarah went up to F6. There is an F6 in How can heaven love me.
Christine is a soubrette; They say so in Prima Donna. Also, Christine has a lower extension a la Susanna/Blondchen. Carlotta is a coloratura
No sabía todo esto. Gracias por compartir el conocimiento
"'Bird-fart' sopranos"...
*DYING SEAL NOISES*
Sorry, I must borrow "Dying Seal Noises" as a band name.
Wow! Queen of the Night and the doll are my two favorites to sing even though I don't know it, I just imitate the sounds. I got told that I am a coloratura soprano but I don't know that much about it. Only took a month worth of opera classes. My highest note is a D6 but I have gone up to an F6 before. But I also love singing in low registers. Like I love singing Carmen, again, don't know the words but just imitate. It's so fun. Sorry I'm new to music and am looking to begin classes someday.
I found your channel recently when you reacted to Diana Ankudinova and I love your style of reaction which I find fun and also informative. It was fun to watch your delight when you heard the first few notes of "Jodel Time".
Thank you for the effort that you make on behalf of your viewers. That effort shows in the responses that you write! I just love it!!!
Now for my question: Who would you choose as the most promising up and coming sopranos and please I would love it if you would elaborate on why these are your picks? As I was writing this it occurred to me that this would be an awesome subject for a future video, that is if you haven't done that already. I love Patricia Janeckova - is she on your list?
Amira Willighagen!
Another famous Coloratura is Pat Benatar.
"Benatar trained as a coloratura with plans to attend the Juilliard School, but decided instead to pursue health education at Stony Brook University." - Wikipedia
Omg I’m just learning that I am a coloratura! How exciting! Also I sang the song that the singer from the Fifth Element when I was a kid!😂😂how fun to learn!!!
Yeah, you're clearly a coloratura;-)
BTW love 5th element too!
The great musical comedienne Anna Russell use to say that the only people who could appreciate coloratura singing properly were other coloratura sopranos. For the general public to listen to it was a terrible strain on the nerves. :0)
Great explanation
Okay, so I know this video is 2 years old, but the crazy thing is that I'm a tenor, my highest note is an A5 and I actually have sung an A6 before using whistle register. Of course, that happened right after I woke up, so my vocal cords were very relaxed, and it probably didn't even sound that good, but of course I went and got myself a neck injury, stopped practicing whistle for 2 days an then my muscle memory decided to go ahead and throw that in the garbage, yay! I'm trying to learn it again but between fry and false cord I already have way too much on my plate. :/
Sopranos regularly sing over 1000 Hertz. Low voiced men just 90 Hertz. Let's marvel at that for a second
Ever heard of a tenor
That was fun to marvel at! ⭐️
@Silent Starlight 90 Hz is an F#2. Most baritones can hit that.
And the record is 4 hertz
Sing primarily on the sixth octave all the time? Nah i don't think so
this is awesome
Didnt know... thank U ❤
Coloratura is not necessarily confined to light lyric or high vocal registers. You can have coloratura in a mezzo-soprano (ie; Cecilia Bartoli), a full lyric or dramatic soprano as well. Coloratura is more an agile technical ability in the vocal chords of a specific vocal type. But more often than not, the light lyric soprano is endowed with this virtue.
The amazing Maria Callas she was a coloratura, too.
Yma sumac too was incredible
This lady being able to hit an A6 the way she did disproves the idea that women can't have falsetto register as far as I'm concerned; great video :3
Omg..the ending is just wooble wooble ..
I have a question for ya: why do you think (or perhaps know for a fact) it is that all the voice types have Italian names? Something to do with the renaissance?
I had a classical friend tell me before I was a coloratura 😅 didn't have a clue what it meant, but I *did* hear queen of the night about a year ago and fell in love with the staccato bits, so she may have been correct! Also I do love singing the one from 5th element, though that F#6 can get a bit hairy at times 😅
The title role from Leo Delibes’ “Lakmé”.
How can I test my agility to verify if i'm a coloratura soprano? I tend to have a very light voice with an extention of F#3- G6 (sometimes I can go higher approximately C7)
Well, that just happened. You belted an A6.
I enjoyed this series of videos, especially the good humor you brought to the subject. Thumbs up on all of them!
She hit an A6 not belt..belt only used to mix your voice!
Yes, well that spelling mnemonic doesn't work if you spell colour correctly.
;-D
Meanwhile, will you do an analysis of Sutherland? Perhaps the infamous "mad scene"?
Not only a remarkable voice for all the obvious reasons, but the other thing that I always find surprising is the sheer SIZE of her voice. It's like an elephant with the grace and speed of a gazelle. Ought not be possible, but there she was for decades. I got to hear her once right at the end of her career in the Sydney Opera House. Even at near 70 her voice was GIGANTIC, easily cutting through all the other singers and orchestra as though someone suddenly let loose with the most beautiful fog horn ever imagined, LOL. Most astounding voice by far I've ever heard, live or otherwise.
My range is G2-A6 what type of suprano am I? or what I’m am I because people have confused me for being a mezzo suprano the issue is. Is that I’m my voice is naturally higher then a mezzo 😅
How can someone not love Diva Plavalaguna?
What is the name of the song abt a bird?
"Ah, such artful performance from this beautiful bird-fart soprano... What? Don't look at me like that, this is exactly what it is called, I learnt this from an adorkable opera professional on TH-cam!"
(a monologue that is bound to happen in my life at some later point)
I was choir for The Lark in high school
Can you still potentially be a coloratura if you have a high tessitura, flexibility, go up to G6 in warm-ups, but can’t publicly perform above an F6?
Well a coloratura doesn't depends on your exenstion but on your tessitura and agility
I didn't actually understand something, so coloratura sopranos can hit notes like F6 in full mixed voice?
You are adorable!
What range would choir boys and castrati be? There is a recording of the last castrati on youtube.
I’ve watched that, it’s quite sad.
They gradually disappear as their voice ages and they have no descendants.
Destroying the genetics of good singers and removing them from the gene pool is vandalism and no real lover of music would do so. Music is timeless.
Im a dramatic Soprano , though I can sing as high as other sopranos can , but, my voice is not as flexible as the lyric soprano , I just want to know if I can change from dramatic to lyric?
dramatic and lyric sopranos are neighboring vocal fachs, so you are likely able to sing some lyric soprano roles too. Many of the older singers crossed between voice types quite frequently!
Well, Spinto sopranos are capable of singing fuller lyric roles as well as dramatic roles. Claudia Muzio is a good example. You really have to go with what your natural voice is. When singers at least contemporary singers try to lighten the voice frequently damage is done or color and quality is over all compromised. When you listen to singers like Claudia Muzio, Caterina Mancini, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Cagnilia, Rosanna Carteri you see what I mean. Compare them to contemporary singers singing the same arias. Listen also to Luisa Tetrazzini, Lina Pagliughi, Toti dal Monte sing things like Caro Nome or Una voce poco fa and how they negotiate the chest voice. Once upon a time, coloratura soprano had very generous chest and middle voice and warmth. Something rather rare today because of this "safe way of singing, no chest voice" taught today. Many young voices develop wobbles even before getting out of college. Just my observation. Also listen to Magda Olivero at various points throughout her career from 1936 Liu in Turandot to 1993 and 1996 singing Sola perduto abandonata. Also Lina Bruna Rasa in Voi la sapete. Absolutely riveting
If you change a repertoir from dramatic to lyric soprano it means a regrets. If the voice Has a good guider it can only grow to something bigger . Never smaller.
Wow maybe your voice might be powerful and heavier irl.
So I'm a coloratura soprano. I realized this the other day after many months of thinking I was a mezzo, because of my belty-ness. Once I gained an interest in classical singing, I realized I COULD NOT for the life of me sing anything by a mezzo in opera music, because my voice is just too light. I'm not trained, so even though my range is from A2-A6, my high notes aren't that amazing, but I love doing staccatos.
Oh yeah! It does sound like you're a coloratura soprano, with the ability to belt high. (I know that's confusing sometimes) If you'd like, I'd be down to help you find the right vocal exercise to help expand those high notes. Just message me at thecharismaticvoice@gmail.com. I'll even give you a discount, for commenting 3 times on videos! ;-)
Can you really go down to A2? If it so, just wow :)
I might a coloratura too. I struggle going lower than like a F3 or an E3 but I have before. But I can get up to a B5 easily then my voice ascends into that bright cold sound anything above that. Plus I can sing really high notes much easier than all the other sopranos in my chorus section
I never thought I would be literally LoL at someone explaining how to remember how to spell something 🤣
The first aria from Lucia is "Regnava nel silenzio", which is not what you played. You played part of the mad scene.
small suggestion: listen to Hiba Tawaji she is an incredible lebanese Coloratura soprano songer
F#3-G#6 is my range, what type of soprano am I?
Coloratura
@@kimii2243 thanks!
Hi!! I know I'm late but hey Elizabeth can you tell me what aria Audrey performed at the met with an unbelievable high A?
The Exterminating Angel by Thomas Adès.
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I thought the highest voice was the soprano acuto sfogato? And now some people have even said sopranino, which used to be a term just designated to certain instruments. Voice types get very confusing
Coloratura is the highest voice type*
@@kimii2243 It really depends on who you ask these days with the new research and naming of voice subtypes. I’ve seen people say coloratura and I’ve heard people say the things I said above as well. I think it also depends on where people learn/study.
colour at u ra
colouratura
got it.
My range is a2-eb6 ( sometimes g#6 or A6).What type Soprano am I ?
Supported
A2 appears sometimes .Exactly my range starts from bb2 or B2
But i can sing on whistle register
Interesting
I'm a Coloratura Soprano and my range is G3-G6 lol whoops
Madeline Robin?
1:27 I thought of Papagena, is she coloratura?
Can anyone be taught to sing?
I can sing like that when I stub my toe, psh easy
I've just found this series and I'm really enjoying it!! But - "Nobody can sing higher than a coloratura"?? You hadn't yet met Dimash.....
Doesn't he sing countertenor and whistle register in addition to his lower range? Some coloraturas can sing the whistle register.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Montserrat Caballe (La Superba) amongst the best, or did her epic collaboration with Freddy Mercury taint her standing ?
She wasn't a coloratura.
Colouratyourawr, got it.
Pirates of Penzance?
Sierra Boggess 😍❤️
What about Sohyang? A korean female singer!
She is a Full Lyric Soprano.
What soprano type is Beverly Cills?
She was a coloratura.
@@gillianomotoso328 Thank you
Sills.
I Wish you would have mentioned Yma Sumac’s triple coloratura...
As soon as you said “unstable women” I thought “Cunegonde!”
Are you a coloratura??
I used to be a coloratura, but my voice matured to have more weight, so now I sing young dramatic soprano repertoire on big stages, and lower female voice parts in choral parts (for blending tone quality)
Here is Elizabeth singing a wonderful performance of "Martern aller arten" . She seems a little nervous before the music starts but soon immerses herself completely into the character. th-cam.com/video/5UjrWnxEQS8/w-d-xo.html
Sarah Vaugh?
I can reach G6 but feel I’m not a coloratura, I don’t think I’m that agile lol.
Most opera singers have trained all of their lives.
Unless you have trained all of your life, you haven’t once came close to your full potential🖤🖤🖤
Beyoncé once heard Mariah Carey‘s riffs and runs and thought, “How does she do that?”
Adgility comes with practice. All voice types are required to do fast long passage work!
is VITAS coloratura?
I’m both a coloratura and a light lyric :/
Im Coloratura Soprano?E3-F6
Garth Brooks
Viola
Can a male be a Coloratura? Even a bass or a countertanor?
A6... Even some men can hit this note (without using whistle voice too!) Check this out: th-cam.com/video/VAeYPg6AccI/w-d-xo.html
but that blue martian...that actress is not singing. its someone else, she's just in a costume, she said was lip singing.
Lip synching. Inva Mula Tchako from, I believe, Albania, dubbed the singing. There is a video on how they created the Diva Plava Laguna character with the actress synching and dancing to the dubbed voice.
In fact Elizabeth provides the link to that video in her description. Actress Mai Wenn (not sure I spelled it correctly) provided the body.
Head voice
Mark Lanegan
Pls Check Out Regine Velasquez from the Philippines💕 She is Lyric Sopranoo
minnie riperton
I'm not a fan of fireworks display. These types of singers tend to showcase their range.
Whitney Houston?
Nobody can sing higher than a coloratura.... Dimash “Hold my drink.”
Dimash is also a coloratura
Colorfulatura
Dimashhhh
0:53
Ha, funny.
Thank you! Peeps keep saying Mariah Carey is a contralto XD
I think you're mixing up sfogato and assoluta if you think Maria Callas and Mariah Carey are the same type of voice. Mariah has the range, and she doesn't exactly have a "weak" lower register, but there is no weight behind it like a true lower voice or dramatic soprano.
in opera, sfogato is more Mado Robin, Lily Pons or Ingaborg Hallstein. Assoluta is more (as you mentioned) Callas, Shirley Verrett, Marisa Galvany or Rosa Ponselle. this type of voice is known for it's ability to sing in multiple tessituras ranging from lower mezzo to high soprano, but, in spite of its coloratura ability, it's not an exceptionally high voice which you'll hear singing into the stratosphere. generally, an assoluta is a fairly dark, heavy voice which could be confused with a mezzo.
put more simply, sfogato is going to be specializing in roles like Queen of the Night, Olympia from les Contes d'Hoffmann or "The Diva Dance" from the movie The Fifth Element. assoluta is going to be singing roles like Abigaille in Nabucco, Lady Macbeth or Norma.
these types of voices share similarities in that they have large ranges, can sing a variety of repertoire and generally have exceptional coloratura facility, so the mix up is understandable, but they are VERY different voices when you take into account vocal weight, timbre and tessitura.
for example, this is a sfogato: behold the lovely voice of Ingaborg Hallstein :)
th-cam.com/video/qj2aFnxQVbU/w-d-xo.html
now compare this to an assoluta voice: Shirley Verret was a master of both mezzo AND soprano repertoire, with solid notes from G3 to D6. again, the coloratura and wide range are there, but the voice peaks much lower down than a sfogato, the timbre is dark and formidable and the voice overall is about 3X the size.
th-cam.com/video/y1Combx-K5c/w-d-xo.html
okay, I see where the mix up is. wikipedia uses sfogato and assoluta interchangeably. what I was referring to as sfogato they refer to as an "acuto sfogato" (imo, a confusing way to make that distinction which gives the impression that the two types of voices we've been discussing are a lot more similar than they actually are).
if, to avoid mix up, we use that definition, Mariah would still be more "acuto sfogato" than "sfogato" though, because the core of her voice is really quite high. respectably strong lower register, sure, but not a weighty one with the bite of a true assoluta. now compare her to Callas, whose chest voice was not only powerful, but as strong as a man singing in that range lmao. she was capable of true voci di peto that Mariah could not dream of.
one of the best ways to tell the difference is that, when higher, lighter sopranos get sick, they often still have their high notes and low notes...but the middle disappears (as a relatively heavy bass-baritone voice, this is it kind of bizarre to discover that happening to anyone lol), where heavier voices it's usually more along the lines of the top half of the voice disappearing. you'll notice as she's gotten older, Mariah's middle range has gotten much breathier, less full, while the low and high voices are still mostly in tact.
Jason Black i appreciate the effort u put into these comments
There are countertenors like Dimash who can sing way higher than a coloratura soprano
Dimash would sing different repertoires he has definitely more than just a countertenor capable voice....counter-tenors are the voices repertoire which have a mandatory range of e3-e5 and a tessitura of a3-a4....and a tone that is lighter than a tenor but heavier than a contralto ,Dimesh can change tessitura and vocal weight meeting different voice types so he's not just a countertenor....
@denny b dude, do some research about countertenors and then we’ll talk. Also it’s impossible to hit some of the notes in the song. It’s edited to sound like that.
@denny b it doesn’t matter that he switches to falsetto voice. It’s his voice so it counts. Just so you know, he hit C8.
@denny b Dimash's voice and range is unique thus he’s not only a countertenor, as @Love and let love also said. He’s like a non binary person.
Dimash is not a countertenor! And he doesn't not sing higher than a coloratura soprano either!