The Lyric mezzo-soprano has a range from approximately the G below middle C to the B two octaves above middle C.This voice has a very smooth, sensitive and at times lachrymose quality. Lyric mezzo-sopranos do not have the vocal agility of the coloratura mezzo-soprano or the size of the dramatic mezzo-soprano. The lyric mezzo-soprano is ideal for most trouser roles.
Lyric mezzo-soprano roles in opera and operettas
- Annio, La clemenza di Tito (Mozart) — trouser role
- Carmen, Carmen (Georges Bizet)@ (Also Dramatic Mezzo-Soprano)
- Charlotte, Werther (Massenet)@
- Cherubino, The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) — trouser role
- The Composer, Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss) — trouser role
- Dorabella, Così fan tutte (Mozart)@
- Hänsel, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck) — trouser role@
- Idamante, Idomeneo, re di Creta (Mozart) — trouser role
- Marguerite, La damnation de Faust (Hector Berlioz)@
- Mignon, Mignon (Ambroise Thomas)@
- Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Menotti)@
- Nicklausse, Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach) — trouser role, though he is a female Muse in disguise.
- Octavian, Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss) — trouser role@
- Orlofsky, (Die Fledermaus) (Johann Strauss) — trouser role
- Sesto, La clemenza di Tito (Mozart) — trouser role
- Sesto, Giulio Cesare (Handel)
- Siebel, Faust (Charles Gounod) — trouser role
- Sorceress, Dido and Aeneas (Henry Purcell)
- Dido, Dido and Aeneas (Henry Purcell)
- Stephano, Roméo et Juliette (Charles Gounod) — trouser role
- Suzuki, Madama Butterfly
@-Denotes a lead role
Lyric mezzo-soprano singers
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