Lyric soprano

A lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra. The lyric soprano voice generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and other sympathetic characters in opera. Lyric sopranos have a range from approximately middle C (C₄) to "high D" (D₆).^[1] There is a tendency to divide lyric sopranos into two groups: light and full.^[2]

^ Coffin (1960), p. ^{[page needed]}
^ Boldrey (1994), p. ^{[page needed]}

[Coffin_1960-1] Coffin (1960), p. ^{[page needed]}

[Boldrey_1994-2] Boldrey (1994), p. ^{[page needed]}

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