Female voices

The soprano is the highest female voice

• Soprano (The Queen of the night / Diana Damrau),  from The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart

The mezzo-soprano is the middle-range type for females.

• Mezzo-soprano (Carmen / Anne Sofie von Otter), from «Carmen», by Georges Bizet.

The contralto (or alto) is the lowest female voice 

• Contralto (Nathalie Stutzmann), from «Songs on the Death of Children» (Kindertotenlieder nº 2) , by Gustav Mahler.