Dominique Labelle, a fine soprano, is one of the soloists.

The program gives Susanne Rydén, a fine soprano, too little to do as a soloist: she has just one duet with the alto.

The boy with the fine soprano.

But more important, she is a very fine soprano with a clear, dusky-toned and focused voice.

For one listener, at least, the memory of that sound in that song has spoiled many a performance since by other fine sopranos.

She is considered by opera historians and critics to have been one of the finest sopranos of the 20th century.

Anna Bishop built a reputation as one of the finest operatic sopranos of her day.

It needed only stronger work from the male vocal soloists to match that of Frances Lucey, a fine soprano.

So did Ann Miller, a special-education teacher and a fine soprano.

Many opera historians consider her to have been the finest dramatic soprano of the second half of the 19th century.