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Your search criteria were: Database searched-role Fach-lyric soprano Voice Part-All Language-All "If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . . . The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni." -W.H. Auden View All Quotes

Helena

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : A Midsummer Night's Dream   Language : English
• Composer : Benjamin Britten
• Description : in love with Demetrius
• Role Created By : Joan Carlyle
• Arias : I am your spaniel, Injurious Hermia

Morgana

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Alcina   Language : Italian
• Composer : George Frideric Handel
• Description : sister of Alcina
• Role Created By : Maria Negri
• Arias : Credete al mio dolore

Amahl's Mother

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Amahl and the Night Visitors   Language : English
• Composer : Gian-Carlo Menotti
• Description : none
• Role Created By : Rosemary Kuhlmann
• Arias : All that gold!

Maddalena di Coigny

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Andrea Chénier   Language : Italian
• Composer : Umberto Giordano
• Description : the daughter of the Contessa di Coigny
• Arias : La mamma morta

Naiad

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Ariadne auf Naxos   Language : German
• Composer : Richard Strauss
• Description : a nymph

Teresa

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Benvenuto Cellini   Language : French
• Composer : Hector Berlioz
• Description : the daughter of Balducci
• Arias : Entre l'amour et le devoir

Frasquita

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Carmen   Language : French
• Composer : Georges Bizet
• Description : a gyspy and friend of Carmen

Micaëla

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Carmen   Language : French
• Composer : Georges Bizet
• Description : a young girl from Don José's village, in love with him
• Arias : Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante

Agathe

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Der Freischütz   Language : German
• Composer : Carl Maria von Weber
• Description : the daughter of Kuno, friend to Ännchen
• Role Created By : Frau Siedler
• Arias : Wie nahte mir der Schlummer…Leise, leise, fromme Weise, Und ob die Wolke sie verhülle

Sophie

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Der Rosenkavalier   Language : German
• Composer : Richard Strauss
• Description : the daughter of Herr von Faninal

Belinda

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano, soubrette
• Opera : Dido and Aeneas   Language : English
• Composer : Henry Purcell
• Description : Dido's maid
• Arias : Shake the cloud from off your brow, Pursue thy conquest, love, Thanks to these lonesome vales, Haste, haste to town

Dido

• Voice Part : soprano|mezzo-soprano   Fach : lyric mezzo, lyric soprano
• Opera : Dido and Aeneas   Language : English
• Composer : Henry Purcell
• Description : Queen of Carthage
• Arias : Ah Belinda!, Dido's Lament (When I am laid)

Hanna Glawari

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Die Lustige Witwe   Language : German
• Composer : Franz Lehár
• Description : a rich widow
• Arias : Mazurka, Es lebt eine Vilja (Vilja-Lied)

Valencienne

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Die Lustige Witwe   Language : German
• Composer : Franz Lehár
• Description : the wife of Baron Mirko Zeta

Magdalene

• Voice Part : mezzo-soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg   Language : German
• Composer : Richard Wagner
• Description : Eva's friend
• Role Created By : Sophie Dietz

Pamina

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Die Zauberflöte   Language :
• Composer :
• Description : the daughter of the Queen of the Night
• Role Created By : Nannerl Gottlieb

Fidelia

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Edgar   Language : italian
• Composer : Giacomo Puccini
• Description : a young woman in love with Edgar, sister of Frank and daughter of Gualtiero
• Arias : O fior del giorno, Già il mandorlo vicino, Addio, addio mio dolce amor!, Nel villaggio d'Edgar

Tatiana

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Eugene Onegin   Language : Russian
• Composer : Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky
• Description : daughter of Madame Larina and sister of Olga
• Arias : Tatiana's Letter Scene (Ruskai pogibnu)

Marzelline

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Fidelio   Language : German
• Composer : Ludwig van Beethoven
• Description : the daughter of Rocco, the jailer
• Arias : O wär' ich schon mit dir vereint

Lauretta

• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Opera : Gianni Schicchi   Language : Italian
• Composer : Giacomo Puccini
• Description : the daughter of Gianni Schicchi, in love with Rinuccio
• Arias : O mio babbino caro