Florica Cristoforeanu - Falcon soprano.

Reposted from @opera_lovers_paradise What is a Falcon Soprano?🔥
🎶Falcon Soprano = intermediate voice between dramatic soprano and mezzo-soprano.
🎶”This natural soprano register showed a certain richness and extension, especially in the middle - low register, where it proved to have a sound and timbral consistency that remained very stable even when it had to emit certain high sounds in the high register.” (S. Poen, musicologist)
🎶Falcon sopranos are very rare and are often mistyped as mezzo-sopranos owing to the size, timbre, and tessitura of their easy range.
🎭Famous falcon sopranos: (sopranos and mezzo-sopranos)
•Pauline Viardot
•Félia Litvinne
•Florica Cristoforeanu
•Elena Teodorini
•Pia Tassinari
•Gabriella Besanzoni
•Regina Resnik
•Grace Bumby
•Shirley Verrett
•Christa Ludwig
….etc.
🎭Roles for falcon sopranos:
•Semiramide (Semiramide, G. Rossini)
•Leonora (La Favorita, G. Donizetti)
•Norma and Adalgisa (Norma, V. Bellini)
•Abigaille (Nabucco, G. Verdi)
•Gioconda (La Gioconda, A. Ponchielli)
•Desdemona (Otello, G. Rossini)
•Lady Macbeth (Macbeth, G. Verdi)
•Charlotte (Werther, J. Massenet)
🔈Arias: (all sung by Florica Cristoforeanu)
•Oh, mio Fernando!” from the third act of Donizetti’s La Favorita.
•”Quadri! Piccé!” from the third act of Bizet’s Carmen.
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[@simonchausse11]

What a voice! Such rich, legato singing and that chest voice use…like most of those early era singers.

[@opera_lovers_paradise9755]

Thanks for reposting my video. Florica Cristoforeanu deserves more recognition. All the best, dear!😍😘😘

[@christineokosun]

My pleasure