| 单词 | first woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirst woman first woman n. [after Italian prima donna prima donna n.] now historical = prima donna n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > singer > opera-singer > [noun] > prima donna opera queen1747 prima donna1754 prima1768 first woman1772 prima donna assoluta1854 diva1883 1772 tr. C. F. Badini Il Carnovale di Venezia i. 19 Posa. Who lives in this house? Can. The first woman of the comic opera at the theatre, called St. Moses. 1827 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe Musical Reminisc. (ed. 2) 47 At one of the smaller theatres, however, the part of first woman in an intermezzo..was filled by a very promising singer,..who became in time one of the best first men. 1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 509/1 [In an Opera] the First Woman (Prima donna) was always a high Soprano. 1948 R. M. Myers Handel's Messiah 14 The ‘first woman’ or prima donna was always a high soprano; the ‘second woman’ and the ‘third woman’ were contraltos. 1992 J. Rosselli Singers Ital. Opera (1995) 130 From 1750 we can also observe a widening of differentials between the fees paid to stars (the first man or first woman or both) and those paid to the other singers. < as lemmas |
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