Listen and Compare
- To hear an example of a Dramatic soprano (Jessye Norman in title role of Ariadne auf Naxos) click on this link: Watch here
- To hear an example of a Wagnerian soprano (Birgit Nilsson as Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung) click on this link: Watch here
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“The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
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—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
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