How to Use mezzo-soprano in a Sentence

mezzo-soprano

noun

• The notes fall in the lower part of the mezzo-soprano range.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• When the piano stopped, a mezzo-soprano singing the part of a patient named Miriam reminded the cast to lock the wheelchairs.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• Stacy was also an expert on the oboe d’amore, a Baroque-era instrument with a mezzo-soprano range.
  — Neil Genzlinger, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• In her film debut, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard plays Chloe, the in-demand lead of Steven’s new production.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• This nostalgic song is in the mezzo-soprano range and has slow, approachable tempos, Light said.
  — Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• The title track, a meditative song that highlights her mezzo-soprano voice, is from a story about her father, who died in 2007.
  — Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• Singing the part with sprightly energy and piercing high notes, the mezzo-soprano Judit Kutasi, in her Met debut, was joined by a small troupe of prancing dancers in rabbit masks with long, pointy ears.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• Also onstage with them then, and next season: the sumptuous mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Years ago, Marilyn Horne, the great mezzo-soprano (truly great), had a complaint: Critics spent almost all of an opera review on the production.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2023
• In that production, the mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey sang Mélisande with a weighty lower range and a mixture of chilliness and seeping passion.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• No stranger to full-scale operatic productions, the mezzo-soprano prefers the more intimate genre.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Another great mezzo-soprano, Christa Ludwig, told me about recording Norma with Callas in 1960.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 Nov. 2023
• Marilyn Horne, the great mezzo-soprano, had a deal with her accompanist, Martin Katz.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
• In 2021, the Black mezzo-soprano founded the Denyce Graves Foundation, which aims to uplift singers at all career stages and pay tribute to the contributions of musical figures who came before them.
  — Michael J. Solender, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2024
• In what’s essentially a cameo, the eminent mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe has a ball with the hard-swinging, gleefully vulgar gay bar owner Kathy Hagen.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• And in Soper’s version, there’s a mysterious yet evident rapport between the Dreamer and the Lover — even as the latter, the mezzo-soprano, is still discovering her voice within this dreamy opera world.
  — Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Samantha Hankey applied a startlingly lush, lustrous mezzo-soprano to the role of Mélisande, rescuing the character from the prison of Symbolist enigma.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
• The 28-year-old Canadian mezzo-soprano walked onto the stage Friday night for the Mozart Requiem wearing a dark skirt covered with white tally marks, like on a school chalkboard: four vertical slashes and a diagonal to close out each set of five.
  — Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023
• Her mother is Brazilian mezzo-soprano Maria-Helena de Oliveira.
  — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2024
• The mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges sang with oracular authority in the somber vocal lines, rising to flashes of intensity.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
• The pianist had performed that night with mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli in Monaco and spoke minutes after receiving a post-concert massage.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2024
• The Bay Area can’t take credit for the eclectic streak that has run through the remarkable career of Frederica von Stade, but the legendary mezzo-soprano has also found plenty of support here for her musical curiosity.
  — Andrew Gilbert, The Mercury News, 1 May 2024
• Hosting the event will be Juilliard visiting faculty member, mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves.
  — Jane Levere, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The singer has been baiting audiences for years with fleeting samples of her figuratively unsung mezzo-soprano.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
• Cass was regarded for her distinctive mezzo-soprano voice, while bandleader John arranged the emblematic vocal harmonies synonymous with the group.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
• And Carmen, whose mezzo-soprano title role displays a range from seduction to proud independence to vulnerability and more, is a perfect vehicle for someone with these gifts.
  — Nicholas Gallagher, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
• But last year’s winning singer — Mexican American mezzo-soprano Sarah Saturnino — was special.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024