Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano (meaning "half soprano" in Italian) is a female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i.e. A3-A5, middle C = C4). Mezzo-sopranos generally have a darker (or richer) vocal tone than sopranos, and their voice type sits between the soprano and the contralto. The terms Dugazon and Galli-Marié are sometimes used to refer to light mezzo-sopranos, after the names of famous singers. A castrato with a mezzo-soprano range was called a mezzo-soprano castrato.

Mezzo-soprano roles

• Carmen (Carmen)
• Mercedes (Carmen)
• Rosina (The Barber of Seville)
• 2nd Lady (The Magic Flute)
• Meg Page (Falstaff)
• Makila (Lakmé)
• Nicklausse (Tales of Hoffman)
• Madellena (Rigoletto)
• Perziosilla (La Forza del Destino)
• Laura (La Gioconda)
• Venus (Tannhauser)
• Olga (Eugene Onegin)
• Brangane (Tristan und Isolde)
• Suzuki (Madame Butterfly)
• Lola (Cavalleria Rusticana)
• Flora (La traviata)
• Alisa (Lucia di Lammermoor)
• Emilia (Otello)
• La Zia Principessa (Suor Angelica)
• Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro)
• Marcellina (Le Nozze di Figaro)
• Dorabella (Cosi Fan Tutte)
• Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier)
• Amneris (Aida)
• Princess Eboli (Don Carlo)
• Ottavia (L'Incoronazione di Poppea)
• Dalila (Samson et Dalila)
• The Composer (Ariadne auf Naxos)
• Orfeo (Orfeo ed Euridice)
• Sonyetka (Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District)
• The Countess (The Queen of Spades)
• Baba the Turk (The Rake's Progress)
• Gertrude (Hamlet)
• Romeo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi)
• Cenerentola (La Cenerentola)