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No, prima donna is feminine.This always confuses people. Perhaps they get 'assoluta' from the expression 'prima donna assoluta' and forget to change the ending when they want to talk about a soprano rather than a prima donna. (I don't know any Italian, so please don't hesitate to tell me if 'prima donna assoluta' is grammatically incorrect as well!)
It's a very interesting subject, anyway. Personally, I'm fully convinced that the voices, and the singing, of Giuditta Pasta and Maria Callas, were very close, and that the Greek diva was indeed the heir of the Italian singer, even if more than 100 years separated them.
No, it does refer to the same type of voice. Capable at the same time of having a very strong low register, and also the higher notes in the soprano repertory, along with coloratura. Of course, there is a price to pay (unless some day we can get an exceptional gift from Nature), as lack of homogeinity in the singing, that going to the extreme it can sounds like two voices, in just one body.
Reading about Pasta, and listening to Callas, we can see that there were a lot of similarities between the two.
Reading about Pasta, and listening to Callas, we can see that there were a lot of similarities between the two.
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