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I am second to none in my reverence for her lyric soprano.

While Grande was "tentative about her soprano," Schwartz recalled, "those sessions were really fun because, as they went on and she could hear how well she was doing, it became exciting and fun for her."

There’s a purity to Salonga’s lyric soprano, which fills the Ahmanson with the distinctive glow not just of the song she happens to be singing but of the musical from which it derives.

In ‘Maria,’ the film itself becomes an opera about the betrayal and manipulation of soprano Maria Callas, notes cinematographer Edward Lachman.

Callas was a US-born Greek soprano, and one of opera's best-known singers.