21.   Fleming, a lyric soprano, alternated between a wild, rip-roaring, passionate, Maria Callas-style interpretation and the more delicately spun lines she generally chose.

22.   Her mother sang in concerts, and as a youngster Harriette learned piano and trained as a lyric soprano.

23.   I had been a lyric soprano when I was studying, but I had this chest register, too, that sounded pop.

24.   Lyric soprano Maria Stader, one of the leading performers of Mozart arias, died Tuesday.