> high, often pure-voiced songbirds. In contrast, the dramatic coloratura > fach sung by sopranos whose voices have some weight --rich lyric or heavier > (to me). Sutherland or Te Kanawa often sing roles of this fach. Queen of > the Night, Konstanze and Violetta are usually considered quintessential > dramatic coloratura roles. (Leonora, Il Trovatore--a dramatic coloratura > role??)
What Miller has presented is merely the German state fach system. However, lest I misconstrue what you were trying to say in the above statement, Te Kanawa is in no way a dramatic coloratura. She is a lyric soprano, pure and simple. Examples of dramatic coloratures would include Joan Sutherland (the quintessential), Rita Shane, Edda Moser, Christina Deutekom, and Edita Gruberova.
Mark Montgomery
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