question: What type of soprano was Emma Matthews famous for?
answer: lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice
context: Title: Emma Matthews
  Passage: Emma Matthews (born 1970) is an English-born Australian lyric coloratura soprano, noted for operatic roles, but also popular on the concert stage.  A Principal Artist with Opera Australia, Matthews has received more Helpmann Awards than any other individual artist, nine Green Room Awards, the Mo Award and the Remy Martin Australian Opera Award.
  Title: Spinto soprano
  Passage: A spinto soprano (also lirico-spinto, spinto lyric soprano or "pushed lyric") is a type of operatic soprano voice that has the limpidity and easy high notes of a lyric soprano, yet can be "pushed" on to achieve dramatic climaxes without strain.  This type of voice may possess a somewhat darker timbre, too, than the average lyric soprano.  It generally uses "squillo" to "slice" through the sound of a full orchestra, rather than singing over the orchestra like a true dramatic soprano.
  Title: Lyric soprano
  Passage: A lyric soprano is a type of operatic soprano voice that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre that can be heard over an orchestra.  The lyric soprano voice generally has a higher tessitura than a soubrette and usually plays ingenues and other sympathetic characters in opera.  Lyric sopranos have a range from approximately middle C (C4) to "high D" (D6).  This is the most common female singing voice.  There is a tendency to divide lyric sopranos into two groups, light and full.
  Title: Emma Carelli
  Passage: Emma Carelli (12 May 1877 in Naples – 17 August 1928 near Rome) was an Italian operatic soprano who was particularly associated with the dramatic soprano roles of the verisimo repertoire and the works of Richard Wagner.
citations: Emma Matthews Lyric soprano