Word: fioritura
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...extraordinarily executed coloratura in her various diminutions where a number of short notes propel ascending or descending progressions in steps or leaps. Bartoli revels in her mastery of such decorative devices and florid ornamentation as complex scales, arpeggios, trills, gruppetti, and elegantly graduated crescendos. Bartoli is a virtuoso of fioritura. Emerging undetected out of silence, her voice creeps and swells into the warm apex of an exquisitely delivered cresendo—the audience melts under the radiance of her sonic glow...
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