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单词 coloratura
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coloratura

(kɒlərətʊərə, US kʌl-)
Word forms: plural coloraturas
1. uncountable noun
Coloratura is very complicated and difficult music for a solo singer, especially in opera.
[technical]
2. countable noun [oft NOUN noun]
A coloratura is a singer, usually a woman, who is skilled at singing coloratura.
[technical]

coloratura in British English

(ˌkɒlərəˈtʊərə) or colorature (ˈkɒlərəˌtjʊə)
noun music
1. 
a. 
(in 18th- and 19th-century arias) a florid virtuoso passage
b. 
(as modifier)
a coloratura aria
2.  Also called: coloratura soprano
a lyric soprano who specializes in such music
Word origin
C19: from obsolete Italian, literally: colouring, from Latin colōrāre to colour

coloratura in American English

(ˌkʌlərəˈtʊrə; ˌkʌlərəˈtjʊrə)
noun
1. 
brilliant runs, trills, etc., used to display a singer's skill
2. 
music containing such ornamentation
3. 
a soprano who sings such music
: in full coloratura soprano
Word origin
It < L coloratus, pp. of colorare, to color

Examples of 'coloratura' in a sentence
coloratura

The tone was richer and warmer than is her wont, the coloratura brilliant and smooth.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)
There's a coloratura soprano to be the cricket.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Her voice was that rarity, a dramatic coloratura soprano.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Originally written for a coloratura soprano, the music pushes both piano and trumpet to near impossible virtuoso extremes.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
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