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Londoners who gathered there got more than their shilling's worth of fine music by a full, tail-coated orchestra, of plain & fancy singing by sopranos, mezzo-sopranos, coloratura-mezzo-sopranos, baritones, bassos.

From Time Magazine Archive

It listed 34 sopranos, 12 mezzo-sopranos and contraltos, 16 tenors, 15 baritones, 14 bassos and five conductors.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the world's noblest voices and a program eminently suited for bassos.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other principals validate Russia's pride in its bassos and baritones, and embarrassment for its screechy sopranos.

From Time Magazine Archive

The player in opera acts, not as men and women act, but as operatic tenors or sopranos or bassos have acted ever since opera came into being.

From Famous Prima Donnas by Strang, Lewis Clinton