Definition of Soprano

Soprano

The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

A singer, commonly a woman, with a treble voice.

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Soprano Quotations

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.
Maureen O'Hara

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.
James Weldon Johnson

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.
Sara Paretsky

The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.
Steve Lacy

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
Steve Lacy

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.
Steve Lacy

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
Steve Lacy

The soprano turned out to sound to me like the right hand on the piano.
Steve Lacy

The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body.
Stan Getz

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.
Jo Stafford

Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
Lesley Garrett

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.
John F. Kerry

You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!
Jerome Richardson

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Soprano Translations

soprano in Dutch is sopraan
soprano in German is Sopran
soprano in Italian is soprano
soprano in Spanish is soprano

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