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TheatreDiva612
#0coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 7:47pm

Hey guys. Can anyone suggest any really good coloratura songs or just really high soprano songs. I already know about "Poor Wandring One" "A Little Bit Of Good" "Think Of Me" "This Place Is Mine" "The Girl in 14G" "Art Is Calling For Me" "Summertimes" etc.....I just wanted some good new ones. Thanks!

judy_in_disguise
#1re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 7:49pm

geez, I definitely have a rep full of coloratura opera songs, but you covered all of the music theatre ones I love.
Try Mein Herr Marquis, it's German, but hilarious (it's a "laughing" song).
Or Glitter and be Gay from Candide. You can do it as a tribute to this board re: coloratura/high soprano songs Updated On: 1/12/05 at 07:49 PM

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#2re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 7:54pm

"I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be" from Patience - it's impressive-sounding, and it's a great comic piece. Audiences love it. When I sing it, I change the next-to-last note to a high C, and gliss down to the final note (can't remember what that is off the top of my head).


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Updated On: 1/12/05 at 07:54 PM

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Liam
#3re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 7:56pm

little reds song in into the wood

"and i know things now verry wonderfull things that i never thought to explor..."

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TheatreDiva612
#4re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 7:59pm

little red's song isn't a coloratura song or high, though...

judy_in_disguise
#5re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:03pm

I don't even remember it going over an E.

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CurtainUp
#6re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:16pm

ya definitely check out Gilbert and Sullivan stuff. I'm partial to Pirates, and my friend adores Patience and Ruddigore.


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StickToPriest
#7re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:57pm

Green Finch and Linnet Bird~Sweeney Todd


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Jwei123
#8re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 10:03pm

"Vanillia Ice Cream" ~She Loves me!


awkward.

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Mattio98
#9re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 10:13pm

"Glitter And Be Gay" from Candide

Joshua488
#10re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 10:37pm

Definitely "Glitter and Be Gay" from CANDIDE.

"Vanilla Ice Cream" from SHE LOVES ME is a great song, but it only goes high at the end.

Ebonic_Singer
#11re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 10:42pm

definately vanilla ice cream. "Poor Wandering One"-Pirates of Penzance.

Feodor Sverdlov
#12re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 11:35pm

Much More - The Fantasticks


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Plum
#13re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/12/05 at 11:58pm

Dammit Priest, you took my first choice. :P

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#14re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 12:23pm

I second "Green Finch and Linnet Bird".


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Feodor Sverdlov
#15re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:40pm

"And This Is My Beloved" - KISMET


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ShbrtAlley44
#16re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:58pm

"The Sun Whose Rays are All Ablaze" from The Mikado is high, and also difficult because it's wordy.

judy_in_disguise
#17re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:13pm

I love "The Sun....", it's my favourite G&S aria.

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ShbrtAlley44
#18re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:25pm

It's beautiful. And it can be so funny, which makes it even better :)

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#19re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:42pm

If you really want to show off your coloratura, skip the musical theatre stuff and jump to Lucia's mad scene or Endless Pleasure from Semele. That'll show em!


I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

judy_in_disguise
#20re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:56pm

Or Der Holle Rache from The Magic Flute.

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#21re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:11pm

Now we're talking! Can you imagine what they would think if you launched into the Queen of the Night?!


I sing for myself. I sing when I want, whenever I want to, just for me. I sing for my own pleasure. Do you understand that?

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TheatreDiva612
#22re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 4:35pm

great ideas! thanks for everything, kids!

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Rathnait62
#23re: coloratura/high soprano songs
Posted: 1/13/05 at 4:37pm

I can't think of Queen of the Night anymore without thinking of Florence Foster Jenkins! Curse you, Judy Kaye!!!


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