Linda J Lister, S. Jensen, N. Arsdale, Franz JosefHaydn, Charlie Rolison, J. A. Bakare, Kathleen McVicker, Jonathan Mancheni, Frank M. Lebar, Cady Marshall, D. Toscano, Wendy Moss, Victor Herbert, Brian Myer, Isabella Ivy, Erin Kennelly
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The term diva was originally an Italian word meaning, quite simply, goddess. Within the culture of Italian opera, the word came to signify a type of mortal female divinity: a soprano (or, in some cases, a mezzo-soprano or contralto) with tremendous musical virtuosity and a flair for the grandiose, a singer who deeply touched her audience's emotions with her performance and thus derived an often fanatic and obsessive admiration from her devotees.