He has virtues, but negotiating Mozart's fioritura is not among them.

The music, with its demanding fioritura, was capably handled by the mostly young cast.

If his prodigious fioritura could be taken to the score, he would astonish the world."

Her fioritura singing smoothed articulated notes into a legato blur.

There is a lovely lyric quality that makes his mushy fioritura easier to forgive.

He seems never to have mastered the complexities of bel canto fioritura.

This voice is light, agile, and capable of executing difficult passages of fioritura.

Complex fioritura and flights of velocity are in the service of sentiment and action.

The voice became the actor, negotiating fioritura with measured grace and making music steadily and intensely.

Even in "Norma," which has plenty of taxing vocal fioritura, there is nothing extraneous.

But the delicately tuned attacks, the still impressive grace in fioritura and the power she summons when it is needed - all are really remarkable.

She has distinguished herself in a wide range of music, gracefully handling everything from Baroque fioritura to spare 20th-century harmonies.

Many lyric baritone roles call for some fioritura and coloratura, a beautiful line, as well as a charismatic presence.

The tone is small and faded; the engagement of Rossini's fioritura timid, rasping and splattered.

If she does not have quite the ineffable ease and lightness of Miss Bartoli in fioritura, who does?

Johnson also calls the piece "one of [Chopin's] most graceful essays in fioritura ornamental practices".

The first theme undergoes four cumulative transformations with decorations, counter-melodies, counterpoint, and a nocturne-like fioritura.

She is a singer in firm control, however; every vocal gesture is intelligently thought out; fioritura is expertly handled.

He produced his high notes with firmness and clarity, and his fioritura was admirably graceful and precise.

But his attempts at the difficult fioritura tended to produce quavery, stabbing arcs of melody rather than roulades containing definite pitches.

But Miss Horne has lost little in tone, and she handled the aria's fioritura with her accustomed ease and rapidity.

No one could articulate Stradella's fioritura, although Alessandra Visconti as the Angel came closer than the others.

As Almirena, Lisa Saffer is touchingly musical in reflective moments and wins most of her matches against rapid fioritura.

Indeed the vocal performance itself is quickly made subservient to the drama, with fluid rhythm and speechlike inflection, and with fioritura deftly turned to laughter.

Miss Mims has a beautiful voice, but its cushioned resonance is two-edged, projecting easily but making Donizetti's fioritura more impressionistic than articulate.