Is a soprano the same as an opera singer?

By the way, I was convinced that this was a universal classic art, but recently I read it is western.

Is this true?

If it is, then just out of curiosity, what do you non-westerners think of opera?

(As for me, while it is considered very classy, it's not really my type of music...

Since I'm unrefined, I like speccially pop music... Songs like "About you now", by Sugababes really thrill me, and lift us my spirits when I'm blue...)

Is a soprano the same as an opera singer?ds browser

Soprano is the type of voice, it's the woman's high voice.

The other types are:

Mezzo-soprano, women's medium voice

Contralto, women's low voice

The types of voice for men are:

Tenor, the men's high voice

Bariton, men's medium voice

Bass, the men's low voice.

An opera is a musical drama where solists sing parts of the story and a choir sings the parts which represent the "people". Most famous opera's were written in the past.

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A Soprano is a singing style so can be for any style of music. Opera included.
Soprano, Alto, tenor, bass, etc. just refer to the range of the voice, not the type of music.

The reason they make a point of telling you that an opera singer is a soprano or an alto or whatever is that the various roles in opera are written for certain voices. For example, most of the male hero roles are for tenors.
yes, and no...

a soprano could be an opera singer or sing soprano in a choir

I don't mind some of the lighter operas
A Soprano is just a voice range... Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass are the 4 common ones. An opera singer may or may not be any of those 4 voice types.
To answer the second part of your question: yes, opera (as the term is generally used in English) is a Western (specifically European) art form. To be specific, we should call it Western Opera or European Opera. It has its roots in Renaissance Italy, where it represented an effort to reproduce Classical Greek drama. The belief among those Renaissance Italians was that the "chorus" and possibly all roles were sung in classical Greek drama, and they attempted to reproduce this situation. As it turns out, later scholarship shows that they were probably wrong about the Greek dramas, but they did hit on an idea that became very popular, first in Italy, and then spreading through France, Austria, Germany and Russia and England.

There are other art forms in the world that also are called "opera"; most specifically Chinese Opera. This is also a combination of music and drama, but the differences between the Chinese musical and dramatics styles and their Western counterparts are so vast that the two art forms really have to be considered as separate genres. A performer trained in Western Opera would be lost in a Chinese Opera, and vice versa.
to be a soprano is to sing the higher scales...it is your voice range, like alto, tenner, bass etc... its all about the notes you can hit, just to keep it simple
it's a voice range not a style. a rap singer can have a soprano voice but their singing in rap style and an opera singer can be a bass, soprano, or tenor.

there is european opera which is the stereotypical opera. there is also something called chinese opera which if very different.
yes
Let me tell you that "soprano" is the highest range for a singer in an opera.

There are several branches of "soprano" in opera.

The "lyric soprano"--focuses more on tone and less on flourishes. Leontyne Price was one of the great African-American lyric sopranos.

The "coloratura soprano" loves melismatic runs and scales and all types of cadenzas. Beverly Sills is one.

A "spinto" soprano sings operatic roles that are very demanding, even without all of that musical flourish. One of them is Kathleen Battle.

An "opera singer" is "any singer of any vocal range who is in an operatic production---whether it is a stock production or a major one like The Metropolitan.

As for non-westeners.......

Well, the Asians will still love "Madama Butterfly" and "Turnadot" by Puccini because they take place in Asian

settings.

Finally....

Opera is still considered a western art because most of its origins came from Italy from opera composers like Claudio Monteverdi or Jacopo Peri from the 17th century.