fioriture
- plural of fioritura.
Example Sentences
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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
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
This, of course, has no reference to the absurd fioriture and long passage work given to the voices,—an Italian fashion of the times,—but to the contrapuntal texture of the work.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Baltzell, W. J. (Winton James)
