>vtec> Cecilia Bartoli -- lyric mezzo, or >vtec> artificially-darkened soprano? > >In my opera literature class, my professor was talking on Wednesday >about the peculiar voice type that Rossini wrote for: the lyric >coloratura mezzo-soprano.
The coloratura mezzo is Marilyn Horne. Cecilia Bartoli can get away with Rosina and Cenerentola but she doesn't do nearly as well with the heavier writing of the serious Rossini heroines and trouser roles in the stage.She simply doesn't produce enough sound on the lower register. On recordings she is supreme however.
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