As Lieutenant Pinkerton, her American skunk of a lover, Raúl Melo offered a tenor voice of medium size and perfectly respectable accomplishment.
Having characterized the president's daughter as "a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality," he added, "She is flat a good deal of the time".
At Sadler's Wells she was, according to the reviewers, "a starry Queen with a voice of authoritative size", and at Glyndebourne "she launched herself into the vocal equivalent of outer space without apparent qualms".
With a voice of reduced agility, size and power, Ms. Fleming now paces herself cautiously, simplifying or dodging many of the coloratura fireworks.
Bellini's "Puritani" arrived with Eglise Gutierrez, a soprano voice of distinctive range, size and variety of color, but with an emotionality that almost trampled the music and probably also got in the way of consistently clear rhythm and phrasing.
Yet there has been criticism of her red hair, her voice, the size of her bottom and even, when she lost a shoe as police rather clumsily wrestled her away from a Canberra Aboriginal demonstration, her choice of footwear.
The voices of plus-size people especially when it comes to sex aren't heard often enough.
On the other hand, ST stations transmit three types of traffic: voice (VO) (packet size of 160 bytes), video (VI) (packet size of 1280 bytes) and background (BK) (packet size of 1600 bytes), according to a Poisson distribution.
"Charley, you're the only friend I got," he says in a voice the size of a thimble.
From the opposite side of the world and musical spectrum, young Nashville country singer Caitlin Rose's The Stand-In is just a simple joy to play: big heart, big songs and a voice the size of Tennessee.
