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coloratura
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian coloratura, from Late Latin colōrātūra, from colōrāre (“to colour”).
Pronunciation
Noun
coloratura (countable and uncountable, plural coloraturas)
- (uncountable) Florid or fancy passages in vocal music.
- 2004, The Video Librarian, volume 19, page 71:
- The singing is generally excellent, with Simon Keenlyside standing out for his richly vocalized (and amusingly dour) Papageno and Diana Damrau for her spot-on coloratura and genuine venom as the Queen of the Night.
- (countable) A singer of such passages, especially a soprano.
- 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
- The middle one, of course, was the coloratura Julia Kristeva, known as the most voluptuous Salome in the business.
Translations
fancy passage in vocal music
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type of singer
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Adjective
coloratura (comparative more coloratura, superlative most coloratura)
- Pertaining to coloratura.
- She has a lighter and more coloratura voice.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- I drew a deep breath, this time fortunately unmixed with gin and tonic. I was profoundly stirred. “You mean,” I said, my voice quavering like that of a coloratura soprano, “that I went through that soul-shattering experience all for nothing?”
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Italian
Etymology
Noun
coloratura f (plural colorature)
- colouration/coloration, colouring/coloring
- (music) virtuosic ornamentation of a melody
Latin
Participle
colōrātūra
- inflection of colōrātūrus:
Participle
colōrātūrā
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian coloratura.
Pronunciation
Noun
coloratura f (plural coloraturas)
Further reading
- “coloratura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
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