favorite SOPRANO?


Who are some of your favorite SOPRANO's and/or CD recordings......something that absolutely melts you away.
jjwa
Early Renata Tebaldi -
Jeanette LaBianca - Buffalo N.Y. raised coloratura. Brief career at LaScala - then vanished.
Regine Crespin -
Kristin Chenoweth -
Warm and intimate, very human and feminine:
Sandrine Piau
Barbara Bonney
Patricia Petibon
Veronique Gens
Carolyn Sampson
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Emma Kirkby

Most other sopranos sound "hard" and "too constructed/trained" to me