mezza voce
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of mezza voce
Borrowed into English from Italian around 1765–75
Example Sentences
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The mezza voce Christoph Friedrich Bretzner dialogue depicts Belmonte, sung by Yijie Shi and Airam Hernández, as he tries to rescue his love, Konstanze, sung by Desirée Rancatore and Elena Gorshunova.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2017
Conducted by its creator, Thomas Adès, and directed by the mezza voce Tom Cairns, the performance is a classical genre manifested within a dreamlike late-1950s horror show.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2017
Vocal style usually went out the window when he saw a chance to prolong a honeyed mezza voce, a thundering high B-flat, a sob, a gulp or a tearful portamento.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thrasher and I had the woods all to ourselves, except, of course, for Spring, who sat beside me singing mezza voce, to herself, a song curiously like the ripple of a brook.
From Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Eaton, Walter Prichard
She sang softly, a mezza voce, with an exquisite liquid tenderness in her voice, like the lowest notes of a brooding bird.
From Vestigia Vol. I. by Fleming, George
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