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by puatry on February 16th, 2005

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What's the difference between a coloratura soprano, a soprano and a mezzo soprano?

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  • by john lipian on March 21st, 2005

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    The primary differences are vocal color and passagio points.

    Vocal color is the the sound quality of the voice (light, heavy, in-between). A heavy sounding voice that has a high range may be a mezzo-soprano, while a light sounding voice with a high range might be a lyric soprano.

    The most important indicator though, are passagi points. Everyone has two, a first passagio and a second passagio. If you place your hand over your chest and sing in your chest voice, you will feel a buzzing sensation in the chest. As you ascend higher, the buzzing sensation will continue up to a certain point, then you will no longer feel the buzz. This is usually the same place in your voice where you start to feel uncomfortable on a note and need to start pushing more air through to make the sound while maintaining chest voice. That is your first passagio point. The second point is a little trickier, but has to do with where your head voice mechanism starts. The combination of these two notes (first passagio and second passagio) usually is a very strong indicator of whether you are a lyric soprano, mezzo, coloratura, etc..

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