When I was 5, at the kindegarden. The nun asked me to join a group that were studying some songs to sing for the school director during his next visit. She asked where was that little girl with the soft voice.

@Eva Lindqvist Eva, thank you

I am just a chorister. For me it is still a technical issue: the first passage between head and mixed voice, working on it.

@Eva Lindqvist thank you so much! Your clarifications are precious!

@Eva Lindqvist thank you for your explanation!

@Philip Owen I am new and I am just a chorister

If I were a classic trained soprano (i am just a chorister) I would love a soprano role from some of Henry Purcell's operas, for example "The Fairy Queen"

@Eva Lindqvist I follow with great interest your posts and suggestions, grateful for this. The one about the soprano singing Mozart's difficult piece was really astonishing. I sing as a soprano in 2 (sometimes 3) amateur choirs. My main difficulty in the change of register from chest voice to mix. Last september I started a school for modern and jazz singers, and my vocal coach is training me to overcome this issue.

@Eva Lindqvist thank you for your reply, it means a lot to me. To be true, coming from classical polyphonic choirs, I tend to use my head voice also in lower notes, with the result that they are sort of not quite strong, let's say feeble. On the opposite, modern repertoire perhaps pushes the chest voice higher, which makes me not much at ease. It is quite difficult to find the correct balance. Anyway, the most important thing is this whole process, is that my teacher insists on letting me use the abdominal muscles in a way that perhaps, despite my long choral practice, was not so much emphsized. And, at 68, let's say that I am exploring new possibilities and become a little bit more aware. Better late than never!!