Definition of "coloratura soprano" [coloratura soprano]

• A lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "That night being free, they had passed up the cinema offering of Harold Lloyd and the advertised "SF Musical Club High Jinks" at the Palace Hotel in favour of a small, private recital of lieder by a visiting coloratura soprano to which Auberon had arranged an invitation."
• "Every man who drives a racing-car has a coloratura soprano beaten to death for temperament."