Patricia Mae Giraldo is an American singer and songwriter. In the US, she has two multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 US Billboard top 40 singles, while in Canada she had eight straigh
Benatar performing in 2007
Benatar performing in Sydney in October 2010
Benatar performing in 2025
Benatar with her husband and lead guitarist, Neil Giraldo, in 2009
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
Pat Benatar
…ancestry. Her family moved to North Hamilton Avenue in Lindenhurst, New York, a village in the Long Island town of Babylon. Andrzejewski trained as a coloratura with plans to attend the Juilliard School, but decided instead to pursue health education at Stony Brook University. At 19, after one year at Stony…
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]