SPINTO Definition & Meaning

spinto

[ spin-toh; Italian speen-taw ]

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adjective

having a lyric quality with a strong, dramatic element:
a spinto soprano voice.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

1940–45; < Italian: literally, excessive, pushed, past participle of spingere to push < Vulgar Latin *expingere, equivalent to Latin ex- ex- ¹ + -pingere, combining form of pangere to set, plant, arrange

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Opera debut, is a true Verdian, a spinto soprano with a voluptuous tone.

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“I am coming from the lyric corner and she’s coming from the lyric corner, arriving now for a little more spinto repertory.”

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Il tasso del Treasury decennale si è spinto sulle piazze asiatiche a 2,784%, record da gennaio 2019.

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Singing Mimì in Act I of “La Bohème,” there were shades of Ms. Netrebko’s glorious past as a sumptuous “lirico spinto” soprano.

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In an era when the Three Tenors waned in the 1990s and 2000s, Giordani was sought after in lyric and later spinto roles.

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