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Coloratura vs Fioritura - What's the difference?

coloratura | fioritura |

As nouns the difference between coloratura and fioritura

is that coloratura is florid or fancy passages in vocal music while fioritura is a musical embellishment or ornamentation.

As an adjective coloratura

is pertaining to coloratura.

coloratura

English

(wikipedia coloratura)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (uncountable) Florid or fancy passages in vocal music.
  • * 2004 , The Video Librarian , volume 19, page 71
    • The singing is generally excellent, with Simon Keenlyside standing out for his richly vocalized (and amusingly dour) Papageno and Diana Damrau for her spot-on coloratura and genuine venom as the Queen of the Night.
  • (countable) a singer of such passages, especially a soprano
  • * 1980 , Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
    • The middle one, of course, was the coloratura Julia Kristeva, known as the most voluptuous Salome in the business.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to .
    • She has a lighter and more coloratura voice.
    This role has the most coloratura singing in the opera.
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    fioritura

    English

    Noun

    (fioriture)
  • (music) A musical embellishment or ornamentation.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 228:
    • He groped for his loafers and walked aimlessly for some times among the trees of the coppice where thrushes were singing so richly, with such sonorous force, such fluty fioriture that one could not endure the agony of consciousness, the filth of life, the loss, the loss, the loss.
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