variants
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a melody in an opera sung by one person
the soprano's magnificent aria
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Recent Examples of arias
The machine’s repertoire included answers to 12 riddles, passages from books, and laughing, crying and kissing sounds, as well as arias sung in both male and female voices—all feats that Edison’s phonograph would one day be able to accomplish by recording and playing back the human voice.
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Ron Cowen,
Scientific American,
3 June 2026
Notable coloratura arias Coloratura arias are found in the works of Mozart, George Frideric Handel, and many other classical composers.
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René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Some of the greatest arias in the genre, performed flawlessly by Jonathan Tetelman.
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Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
But, beginning next month, the venue will begin to build a reputation as a place for something beyond arias and librettos.
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Cary Darling,
Houston Chronicle,
26 Feb. 2026
There will be cocktails, dinner and arias performed by the 2025-26 Artists in Residence.
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Libby Smith,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
Many arias from the 1800s include repeated verses to give the singers the opportunity to show off their coloratura skills by embellishing the sections of the songs the second time around.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
This is done with Taub’s sheer skills with the song styles varying from strong recitatives to insightful arias and battle cries.
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David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
Macmillan has a musician's kind of knack for sculpting outbursts, rants and other verbal arias.
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Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 2025
Ron Cowen,
Scientific American,
3 June 2026
Notable coloratura arias Coloratura arias are found in the works of Mozart, George Frideric Handel, and many other classical composers.
—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
Some of the greatest arias in the genre, performed flawlessly by Jonathan Tetelman.
—
Ben Crandell,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Apr. 2026
But, beginning next month, the venue will begin to build a reputation as a place for something beyond arias and librettos.
—
Cary Darling,
Houston Chronicle,
26 Feb. 2026
There will be cocktails, dinner and arias performed by the 2025-26 Artists in Residence.
—
Libby Smith,
CBS News,
19 Feb. 2026
Many arias from the 1800s include repeated verses to give the singers the opportunity to show off their coloratura skills by embellishing the sections of the songs the second time around.
—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
This is done with Taub’s sheer skills with the song styles varying from strong recitatives to insightful arias and battle cries.
—
David John Chávez,
Mercury News,
28 Oct. 2025
Macmillan has a musician's kind of knack for sculpting outbursts, rants and other verbal arias.
—
Jim Higgins,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for arias
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Notorious Knicks villains such as Trae Young, Joel Embiid and CJ McCollum received similarly contentious choruses in recent postseasons.
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People themselves keep those choruses alive.
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The score by Joseph Bishara is shivery with chorales that moan like wraiths in the wind.
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Synchronized blinking faded when the researchers sped up the Bach chorales to 120 beats per minute.
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Australian singer-songwriter Tash Sultana presented an emotional and powerful mid-afternoon set with soaring guitar solos and vocals, live looping and musical dexterity that left the audience stunned in the best way possible.
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Guitar strums peak through the mix like fresh blades of grass and sweeping drums gently carry the songs forward, while Lenae sounds sweeter than ever, her airy vocals chasing the wind like white dandelion puffs.
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Take The Music Lesson, a study of a young woman playing the virginal, closely watched by a gentleman, which Graham-Dixon reads as a depiction of Collegiants chastely performing and singing psalms.
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Over the course of Gregory Orr’s long career, his poems have become increasingly incantatory, more and more like chants or psalms, repeating, reformulating, reaching for the edges of the same rich metaphors.
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Paul drove into Wilkes-Barre from Princeton on Christmas Day after the chapel service and dropped his bags at a forlorn motor lodge on Public Square—Christmas carols dragging at slow speed on its sound system—and swung by my parents.
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That's4Entertainment's Christmas Con 2026 will take place at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison, New Jersey, from December 11-13, and its halls will be decked to the gills with carols, tree lightings and sweet treats.
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Scrolling SoundCloud the other week, I was reminded of the Blackberry arguments, email apologies, and voicemail serenades of the Heartbreak Drake era.
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Clips from the Pitt-Stanford game spread rapidly on Bluesky, where multiple users captured separate free-throw serenades and posted them individually.
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“Arias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arias. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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