chanteuse lyrique

English translation: opera singer

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French term or phrase:chanteuse lyrique
English translation:opera singer

10:09 Oct 9, 2019
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French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Music / Stated occupation on a Birth Certificate (occupation of the mother)
French term or phrase: chanteuse lyrique
When I google "chanteuse lyrique" I get opera singers as results.

Against that, there are plenty of results for "lyrical singer", so who knows...you? Then answer here!
Conor McAuley
France
Local time: 11:34
opera singer
Explanation:
Certainly seems like opera singer from what I can find!

https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/les-traverses-du-temp...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cécile_de_Kerguiziau_de_Kervas...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artiste_lyrique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera
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Emily Gilby
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:34
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Summary of answers provided
4 +9opera singer
Emily Gilby
3vocalist
Rowena Fuller (X)


Discussion entries: 13





  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
vocalist


Explanation:
A good cover-all!

Rowena Fuller (X)
France
Local time: 11:34
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  writeaway: singer, not a vocalist. chanteur/chanteuse lyrique is definitely not translated as vocalist. /https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/italian-english...
1 hr
  -> Fair enough - I rarely answer anything in here because it is always a minefield and I seem to frequently end up with my foot jammed down my throat - sorry writeaway and respectful mea culpa

agree  Daryo: "chanteuses lyriques" = many are opera singers BUT NOT ALL
4 hrs

disagree  Germaine: Certainly not a "cover-all". This said, nobody's perfect and this place shouldn't be a minefield. Feel free to offer your point of view.
1 day 3 hrs

agree  Wolf Draeger: Unsure about "vocalist", but I'm agreeing to counter the unwarranted disagrees, which should be reserved for blatantly wrong answers, not debatable ones.
2 days 1 hr
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
opera singer


Explanation:
Certainly seems like opera singer from what I can find!

https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/les-traverses-du-temp...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cécile_de_Kerguiziau_de_Kervas...
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artiste_lyrique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera


Emily Gilby
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:34
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Grading comment
Thanks to all!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ormiston
1 min

agree  Ph_B (X)
11 mins

agree  Melanie Kathan
2 hrs

agree  Katarina Peters
2 hrs

agree  Laura Nagle (X)
2 hrs

agree  Yvonne Gallagher
3 hrs

agree  Mirella Biagi
4 hrs

agree  Cyril Tollari
4 hrs

agree  Tony M
4 hrs

disagree  Daryo: mostly but NOT ALL https://vos-celebrites.fr/liste-chanteuses-lyriques.php
4 hrs

neutral  David Vaughn: Not all classical singers are opera singers. Opera is not a style of classical music, it is a specific sort of performance. Someone who sings Schubert songs, or sings Luciano Berio, is not necessarily an opera singer.
8 hrs

disagree  Narjes Bourega: Opera is just a small part of "Le Lyrisme", which is a tone, an artistic register that favors poetic expression and the exaltation of personal feelings and passions. The 1st opera was in 1598, by Jacopo Peri, while "Le chant lyrique" existed way before
23 hrs

agree  writeaway: oeuf corse. whatever else could it be? disagrees are misleading and wrong (I had to delete my original post from yesterday because it suddenly kept on posting the disagree comment. a bug in the system?)
1 day 18 mins

neutral  Wolf Draeger: Maybe too specific, just "singer" or "songstress" might do.
2 days 1 hr

agree  Rachel Fell
2 days 1 hr
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