fioritura
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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
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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
She neither added a single fioritura nor a single ornament which had not been noted by the composer.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
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 Cournos, John
Their songs were low and musical, not unlike the song of the canary, though there were no cadenzas or fioritura passages.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James
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
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
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
Before the ultimate one, though, there are limitless opportunities for the prima donna to cut up and rattle off fioriture.
From Time Magazine Archive
This, however, may not be entirely laid at the door of the exacting singer, for we find these same fioriture throughout his harpsichord music.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
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