Spinto

Spinto

Spinto (from Italian, "pushed") is a vocal term used to characterize a soprano or tenor voice of a weight between lyric and dramatic that is capable of handling large dramatic climaxes at moderate intervals. Sometimes the terms "lirico-spinto" or "jugendlich-dramatisch" are used. This voice type is recognized by its "slice," allowing the singer to be heard over a full Romantic orchestra in roles excluding, in particular, the most taxing of the Verdi, Puccini and verismo parts, such as Otello.

* Spinto soprano: a lyric soprano with a fair amount of "pulp". As they have both a lyric and a dramatic quality, spinto sopranos are suitable for wide range of roles, from lyric roles such as Micaela in "Carmen" and Mimì in "La Bohème" to Verdi heroines like Leonora (in "Il Trovatore" or "La Forza del Destino"), "Aïda" or Puccini's Madame Butterfly.
* Tenore spinto: the tenor equivalent of the above. They can sing roles like Rodolfo in "La Bohème" and Alfredo in "La Traviata" all the way up to Mario Cavaradossi in "Tosca" and Radames in "Aïda". The tenor lead in Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" is another well-known example of a spinto part.

To illustrate what a spinto voice is, and how it differs from a lyric voice, a soundfile of [http://parterre.com/tosca_quiz.mp3 "Vissi d'arte"] sung by six different sopranos (on opera blog [http://parterre.com/ Parterre.com] ) is provided.
# Lyric (Claudia Muzio)
# Spinto (Leontyne Price)
# Spinto (Renata Tebaldi)
# Spinto (Zinka Milanov)
# Lyric (Montserrat Caballé)
# Spinto (Antonietta Stella)

Rosalind Plowright defines a spinto voice as one that has a tonal colour one down from its range. For example, a voice with a mezzo's tone colour and the high notes of a soprano, or a voice with a tenor range and a baritone's tone colour, is a spinto. She names Placido Domingo as an instance of the latter. [cite web |url=http://www.altamusica.com/entretiens/document.php?action=MoreDocument&DocRef=3752&DossierRef=3368 | work=Altamusica | date=15 May 2008 | accessdate=2008-05-15] Plowright's generalisation does not hold true for all spinto tenors, however. Giovanni Martinelli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi and Jussi Bjorling, for instance, sang spinto roles such as Radames with bright-toned voices that lacked any baritonal colouration.

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  • spinto — noun (plural spintos) Etymology: Italian, literally, pushed, from past participle of spingere to push, from Vulgar Latin *expingere, from Latin ex + pangere to fasten more at pact Date: 1944 a singing voice having both lyric and dramatic… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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