What are some musicals with roles that are for an
operatic soprano voice (more than just "legit" musical
theater tone -- I mean a full-throated,
resonant-brimming, vibrato-laden tone that would make
mike run screaming into the night).
So far I can think of:
Gilbert and Sullivan sopranos (not really musicals,
but MT companies sometimes do G&S)
Cunegonde from Candide
Carlotta from Phantom
Lily from Secret Garden
I'm not counting roles like Christine and Cosette,
which I've never heard fully operatically -- they tend
to go to the more pure, girlish legit voices. And I
know that Bernstein loved Te Kanwa as Maria in West
Side Story, but I don't think anyone else would cast
it that way.
Are there others?
Isabelle B.
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