1.   At the time, it seemed that a splendid lyric soprano with an unusually resonant voice had arrived.

2.   A promising lyric soprano had grown, it seemed, into a potentially major spinto soprano with a vibrant sound and real dramatic intensity.

3.   After a performance by world-class lyric soprano Roxane Coss, terrorists burst in and take everyone hostage.

4.   Compared with the conductor Herbert von Karajan or the brilliant lyric soprano Tiana Lemnitz, whom Jefferson also writes about, Ms. Schwarzkopf emerges relatively unscathed.

5.   His precious birthday gift had arrived in the form of the world-renowned lyric soprano Roxane Coss.

6.   Isabel Bayrakdarian, the rising lyric soprano, appears as Camille, whose virtue catches his heart off guard.

7.   Light lyric soprano Heidi Grant Murphy sang Servilia exquisitely.

8.   Lyric soprano Elizabeth Futral sang Hero with beauty and character, and mezzo Nancy Maultsby brought strength to the role of Ursula.

9.   Lyric soprano Sari Gruber was a bright-voiced Gretel, and the fine mezzo-soprano Theodora Hanslowe, in her company debut, was a frisky Hansel.

10.   Matti Salminen was the booming, offstage amplified bass voice of Fafner, the dragon, and the agile lyric soprano Heidi Grant Murphy was offstage Forest Bird.