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Edita Gruberova, a soprano who reigned over world opera stages for decades, dazzling audiences with her shimmering pianissimos and vocal pyrotechnics in the works of composers including Donizetti, Verdi and Richard Strauss, died Oct.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2021

I love the passage when in one phrase Mr. Kaufmann builds from pleading pianissimos to a heroic top note.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2017

This score provides a good acoustical test, its dynamic range running from celestial pianissimos to apocalyptic thunder.

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2017

Throughout the evening, she may have gotten a little carried away making sudden shifts between dramatic outpouring and floating pianissimos, a tic becoming a predictable shtick.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2014

In the fortissimo passages his tone was immense, and his pianissimos were the most delicate whispers.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)