A brilliant display of skill or courage, especially in music or performance; technical brilliance performed with great confidence.
Italian word meaning 'bravery' or 'boldness,' derived from 'bravo.' In music, it originally described vocal passages requiring great technical skill and daring interpretation.
In classical music, a bravura aria is basically a musical flex—composers wrote these parts specifically to show off a singer's most impressive technical abilities, like the musical equivalent of a gymnast's hardest routine.
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