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In reviewing Ms. Zeani’s performance in The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg suggested that she would have been better suited for the latter-day “Otello”: “Much more a Verdi than a Rossini singer, she had some trouble with the fioritura, simplified as it was, but of her basic vocal endowments there can be no doubt.”

Normally there would be 10,000 visitors a day to photograph the splendours of the Fioritura, we were told.

The red zone marks areas still regarded as too dangerous to visit but an exception was made for people to see "La Fioritura".

His tone is very sonorous, his touch singing, and he commands the entire range of nuance from the rippling fioritura of the Chopin barcarolle to the cannon-like thunderings of the A-flat polonaise.

Valentine's prayer, if given, was so overlaid with fioritura that I did not feel sure of it.