Soprano

In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which often encompasses the melody.

Within opera, the lowest demanded note for sopranos is F3 (from Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten[7]).

In rare cases, some coloratura roles go as high as G6 or G♯6, such as Mozart's concert aria "Popoli di Tessaglia!

While not necessarily within the tessitura, a good soprano will be able to sing her top notes full-throated, with timbre and dynamic control.

In SATB four-part mixed chorus, the soprano is the highest vocal range, above the alto, tenor, and bass.

Light coloraturas have a range of approximately middle C (C4) to "high F" (in alt) (F6) with some coloratura sopranos being able to sing somewhat lower or higher,[5] e.g. an interpolated A♭6 in the Doll Aria, "Les oiseaux dans la charmille", from The Tales of Hoffmann, e.g. by Rachele Gilmore in a 2009 performance, and a written A♮6 by Audrey Luna in 2017 in The Exterminating Angel, both at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

A soubrette voice is light with a bright, sweet timbre, a tessitura in the mid-range, and with no extensive coloratura.

Many young singers start out as soubrettes, but, as they grow older and the voice matures more physically, they may be reclassified as another voice type, usually either a light lyric soprano, a lyric coloratura soprano, or a coloratura mezzo-soprano.

[6] The lyric soprano is a warm voice with a bright, full timbre, which can be heard over a big orchestra.

It generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingénues and other sympathetic characters in opera.

[6] The light lyric soprano has a bigger voice than a soubrette but still possesses a youthful quality.