However, all sounds were drowned suddenly in a long burst of applause. The tenor and soprano bowed and smiled across the footlights. The soprano vanished, only to reappear on the balcony of the pavilion, and while she declared that the stars and the night-bird together sang "He loves thee," the voices close at hand continued:英文原著 · 《The Pit》
while to the left of the soprano, the baritone intoned indistinguishable, sonorous phrases, striking his breast and pointing to the fallen tenor with his sword. At the extreme left of the stage the contralto, in tights and plush doublet, turned to the audience, extending her hands, or flinging back her arms. She raised her eyebrows with each high note, and sunk her chin into her ruff when her voice descended. At certain intervals her notes blended with those of the soprano's while she sang:英文原著 · 《The Pit》
Ashmead said he was mad: she was the German Alboni; her low notes like a trumpet, and the compass of a mezzo-soprano besides.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"The soprano is insipid. And they are all imperfect--contentedly imperfect, How can people sing incorrectly? It is like lying."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
"No," said Miss Vance. "The Fraulein is ill?" demanded one of his sisters. "No," Clara said, again smiling. "WE expected to meet her," the younger princess said. "It is most singular----"
"She has sent her apology to the countess," said Clara gently, and passed on. But her little triumph was short lived. A famous professional soprano appeared in a white-ribboned enclosure at the end of the salon, and the guests were rapidly arranged according to their rank to listen. Clara and Jean stood until every man and woman were comfortably seated, when they were placed in the back row.英文原著 · 《Frances Waldeaux》
It is well to be reasonably watchful when a Mexican lion sings soprano along the arroyos at sundown. The burden of his song may be that young calves and fat lambs are scarce, and that he has a carnivorous desire for your acquaintance.英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
I got in this racket a generation too late, just like Tony Soprano.美剧 · 《Billions》