fioritura
Americannoun
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fioriture
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of fioritura
1835–45; < Italian, equivalent to fiorit ( o ) flowery, originally past participle of fiorire to flower + -ura -ure
Example Sentences
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The only reason to pluck it from obscurity now is to afford a singing actress like Sills the dual opportunity to make life look difficult and bel canto fioritura easy.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the high, falsetto fioritura of the singers is difficult to take at the start, even if it is the Chinese ideal of good singing.
From Time Magazine Archive
He thrived in a liberal air, an air of gorgeous spending, though he sported a supercilious smile at the fioritura, the luscious excess of it.
From The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by John Cournos
When he reached the highest point of ecstasy, emitting from this throat some complicated fioritura, or fermata, a horrisonant bellowing broke in upon him pitilessly, leaving him lost and inundated for a long time.
From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s
For example, how divinely you do that fioritura... that...
From Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Julius West
The American baritone, his voice frayed and worn, struggles with the vocal demands of the role, most obviously in the comically fudged triplets in the fioriture of his aria, “Vedrò mentr’io sospiro.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016
Before the ultimate one, though, there are limitless opportunities for the prima donna to cut up and rattle off fioriture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Daughter lacks the stature of Donizetti's comic masterpieces Don Pasquale and L'Elisir d'Amore, but it does provide Sills with countless opportunities for lambent fioriture, whistling-high E-flats, and howling farce.
From Time Magazine Archive
Critics respected the 19th century grandeur that characterized all his work and cheered especially the fioriture he summoned in such choral classics as Handel's Messiah.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even more important was the change which he introduced into the manner of singing fioriture or florid music.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
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