snide76258@a... wrote: snide76258@a... wrote:
> > > What are some musicals with roles that are for an > > > operatic soprano voice (more than just "legit" musical > > > theater tone -- I mean a full-throated, > > > resonant-brimming, vibrato-laden tone that would make > > > mike run screaming into the night). > > > > Most of the Rogers and Hammersteing musicals have parts like you're > looking for.
Carrie in Carousel is pretty high for a musical theater role. Audra MacDonald made a triumph in this role in a revival.
> Hope Harcourt in Anything Goes is pretty operatic. Often in the old > musicals, the "leading lady" was more of an operatic soprano, while > the "tramp" (Reno Sweeney, Ado Annie, etc.) was more of a belter.
Yes, but it's not a high part, at least in the version that gets rented out to community theater. I think it's really more in the mezzo-soprano range. If a soprano sings it, she'd better have good low notes, or she might wind up being forced to belt low notes and use the head-voice high notes, which is a singing practice that I notice (and dislike intensely) in so many "Broadway"-style performances these days.
-- Margaret Harrison, Alexandria, Virginia, USA "Music for a While Shall All Your Cares Beguile" mailto:peggyh@i...
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