Time zone: Scroll down to read and listen to our selection of the best sopranos of all time.‘The Queen of La Scala’, ‘La Divina’, ‘The Bible of Opera’ – who else but Maria Callas? … Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. If you're a "real" soprano, you can sing just about anything. But, if you’ve been to any auditions or concerts lately, you know that singers tend to gravitate toward the same pieces. The African-American soprano couples sheer power with a richness and depth of tone that was made for Wagner’s heroines – Isolde, Elisabeth, Kundry, Sieglinde – Strauss’s songs, as well as Purcell’s In 2007 Anna Netrebko became the first soprano to feature in Any list that does not include Leontyne Price is fatally flawed and highly suspect. Read and listen to our top 10 sopranos guide featuring old-school divas and today’s superstars.Who are the best sopranos of all time? Puccini, Debussy, Wagner –De los Ángeles sang it all, but was always happiest on the concert platform.With a personality to match her powerful voice, Jessye Norman is a fixture among opera’s legends. Some say: “Opera singers are the professors and pop singers are the kindergarten teachers.” Well, Although it is difficult to compare the two genres because their purpose is so different, all of us know that the opera world demands higher vocal skills and more training than pop world. Since then,  IL Divo has sold over 30 million records throughout its career and performed before personalities like as former US presidents George Bush, Bill Clinton or Barack Obama , or the Queen of England.Emma Shapplin is a 45 year old French French soprano Singer.

Adele: 19. Review: British songstress Adele stormed onto the music scene in 2008, and was named Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards in 2009. She is best-known for…Elīna Garanča (born September 16, 1976) is a Latvian mezzo-soprano. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Brightman got married in 1982 and she went on to star in a number of his shows, including The Phantom of the Opera.

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform. Tragically, Andrea lost his sight after a football accident when he was just 12. Her gilded voice went through a similar metamorphosis, maturing from a student mezzo to a young coloratura soprano (singing perhaps the finest ‘Queen Of The Night’ on record), before developing a weightier, lyric quality suited to Wagner as well as Mozart – eventually Eva from “In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing.” But who were Sir Georg Solti’s star sopranos? Famously down to earth, Sutherland nevertheless found her niche in Donizetti and Bellini’s histrionic and highly-strung heroines – Lucia, Norma, Amina – though her own favourite was tomboy Maria in joyous comedy In April 1965 American mezzo Marilyn Horne pulled out of a performance of Donizetti’s A voice of unusual warmth and mellowness set New Zealand soprano Kiri Te Kanawa apart.

Bocelli is well known for his beautiful voice, famous for songs such as Time to Say Goodbye duet with Sarah Brightman and more recently working with Ed Sheeran on hit single Perfect.The opera singer is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary opera during the late 20th century.

Here’s a list of the most notable and famous pop opera singers in the world, who have successfully mixed the two genres in one style called operatic pop or popera. The only thing you’ll accomplish is annoying real music lovers.I like Battle too, but listen to her sing Bach cantata #51.