1.   American soprano Sheri Greenawald will sing the title role.

2.   Eleanor Steber, then a rising young American soprano, stepped in and scored a triumph with the role.

3.   Few singers before the public today practice this art more splendidly than the American soprano Ruth Ann Swenson.

4.   Joining Masur for part of the program was an artist who usually makes any concert special, the American soprano Renee Fleming.

5.   So it comes as a special pleasure when they are united in a single artist, as with the rising American soprano Elizabeth Futral.

6.   So it is good to welcome the lustrous American soprano Sylvia McNair in a thoughtful grouping of songs and instrumental interludes, with the Academy of Ancient Music.

7.   Sylvia McNair, the American soprano, made her much heralded recital debut Sunday at Alice Tully Hall -- and shared the spotlight as she took her bows.

8.   The American dramatic soprano Alessandra Marc, who sings Sieglinde, has yet to live up to her early promise, and this performance is no exception.

9.   The American soprano Phyllis Curtin, a renowned voice teacher and a longtime advocate of opera in English, stresses the value of the practice particularly for students.

10.   The American soprano was regal and human, youthful and wholly involved in the role.