Coloratura is a passage of music, especially vocal operatic music, that is characterised by rapidity and elaborate embellishment or ornamentation that includes musical runs, trills, "or similar virtuo
Nino Machaidze, in the coloratura role of Marie, in La Fille du Régiment at the Metropolitan Opera House in 2011.[citation needed]
Farinelli, a soprano castrato famous for singing baroque coloratura roles (painting by Bartolomeo Nazari, 1734).[citation needed]
Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson, in rehearsal for the Queen of the Night coloratura role, in the opera Die Zauberflöte by W. A. Mozart, at the New Zealand Opera in 2016.
An example of a coloratura passage, a piano-vocal score, for a soprano role,[clarification needed] the final cadenza from Ophélie's Mad Scene, from the 1868 opera Hamlet, by Ambroise Thomas.[better source needed][full citation needed]
La fille du régiment is an opéra comique in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti, set to a French libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard. It was first performed on 11 Februa
Coloratura
…Nino Machaidze, in the coloratura role of Marie, in La Fille du Régiment at the Metropolitan Opera House in 2011. Coloratura (, ) is a passage of music, especially vocal operatic music, that is characterised by rapidity and…
Euphrasie Borghèse as Marie and François-Louis Henry as Sulpice in the premiere
Mécène Marié de l'Isle sang Tonio.
1910 poster for the opera by Emile Finot
Final curtain call of the Metropolitan Opera's performance of 24 December 2011 with (l to r) Lawrence Brownlee (Tonio), Nino Machaidze (Marie), and Ann Murray (Marquise)