Louise Homer was a famous contralto (1871–1947 ... She (the coach) thought, “I know we have two coloratura sopranos here at the Academy, and that voice is neither one of them.” ...

Not once had she flinched before the laciest coloratura passages, before measures that took her well into contralto regions, out again and up to the peak of the soprano scale. Her acting as the ...

Instead of cream velvet jeweled with coloratura splendor there is an unsteady ... Rose Bampton, listed at the Metropolitan as a contralto, always sang contralto or mezzo roles there.