Editing Mezzo-soprano (section)

=== Dramatic ===
A dramatic mezzo-soprano has a strong medium register, a warm high register and a voice that is broader and more powerful than the lyric and coloratura mezzo-sopranos. This voice has less vocal facility than the coloratura mezzo-soprano. The range of the dramatic mezzo-soprano is from approximately the F below middle C (F<sub>3</sub>, 175&nbsp;Hz) to the G two octaves above middle C (G<sub>5</sub>, 784&nbsp;Hz).<ref name=Appelman /> The dramatic mezzo-soprano can sing over an orchestra and chorus with ease and was often used in the 19th century opera, to portray older women, mothers, witches and evil characters. Verdi wrote many roles for this voice in the Italian repertoire and there are also a few good roles in the French Literature. The majority of these roles, however, are within the German Romantic repertoire of composers like [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]] and [[Richard Strauss]]. Like coloratura mezzos, dramatic mezzos are also often cast in lyric mezzo-soprano roles.<ref name=Boldrey />

Dramatic mezzo-soprano roles in operas ('''*'''''denotes a lead role''):
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* Azucena, ''[[Il trovatore]]'' ([[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]])*
* Amneris, ''[[Aida]]'' (Verdi)*
* Adelaide, ''[[Arabella]]'' ([[Richard Strauss]])
* Brangäne, ''[[Tristan und Isolde]]'' (Richard Wagner)
* The Countess, ''[[The Queen of Spades (opera)|The Queen of Spades]]'' ([[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Tchaikovsky]])
* Dalila, ''[[Samson and Delilah (opera)|Samson and Delilah]]'' ([[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]])*
* Dido, ''[[Les Troyens]]'' ([[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]])*
* Dorabella, ''[[Così fan tutte]]'' ([[Mozart]])
* Eboli, ''[[Don Carlos]]'' (Verdi)
* Fricka, ''[[Das Rheingold]]'', ''[[Die Walküre]]'' (Wagner)
* Gertrud, ''[[Hansel and Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'' ([[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Humperdinck]])
* The Gingerbread Witch, ''Hansel and Gretel'' (Humperdinck)
* Herodias, ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]'' (Richard Strauss)
* Judith, ''[[Bluebeard's Castle]]'' ([[Béla Bartók|Bartók]])*
* Klytämnestra, ''[[Elektra (opera)|Elektra]]'' (Richard Strauss)
* Laura, ''[[La Gioconda (opera)|La Gioconda]]'' ([[Amilcare Ponchielli|Ponchielli]])
* Marina, ''[[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]]'' ([[Modest Mussorgsky|Mussorgsky]])
* Ortrud, ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' (Wagner)
* Princess de Bouillon, ''[[Adriana Lecouvreur]]'' ([[Francesco Cilea|Cilea]])
* Venus, ''[[Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser]]'' ([[Richard Wagner|Wagner]])
* Waltraute, ''[[Die Walküre]]'', ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' (Wagner)
* Zweite Dame (Second Lady), ''[[The Magic Flute]]'' (Mozart)
* Zweite Norn (Second Norn), ''[[Götterdämmerung]]'' (Wagner)
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