Usage Note
Sopran is the highest voice register and is grammatically masculine even when the singer is a woman; the singer herself is a Sopranistin. Stress falls on the second syllable.
Examples
"Im Quartett übernahm sie den Sopran."
Natural Translation
In the quartet she took the soprano part.
Literal Translation
In-the quartet took she the soprano.

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