[f. SOPRAN-O + -IST.] A soprano singer. Also attrib.
1864. Reader, 6 Feb., 179/3. A French paper mentions a M. Bollaert, a sopranist, as singing at a concert in Paris.
1883. Grove’s Dict. Mus., III. 461/2. One of the most famous of the sopranist singers who flourished in the last century.
