Does she have a soaring voice?
Who would you say has a “soaring” voice?
Yes, she certainly has a soaring voice.
By way of contrast, Florence Foster Jenkins does not have a soaring voice.
If you are talking about trained opera singers, especially sopranos and tenors, I would call their voices “soaring” if they reach the high notes without any obvious strain or change in timbre, and without sliding up to them; there is also a little trick of getting just a little louder as they get higher. This soprano has that; her voice is very lush as well, although I think she lacks expressiveness.
That’s not a soaring voice; that’s a SORE voice.
They can fly.
Freddie Mercury had a soaring voice
That they’re Patrick Warburton. 
Lea Solonga’s voice soars.
Karen Carpenter (So wish I could find a link without that over-produced 70’s crap in the way of her lovely voice but that’s the best I can do.)
And their horses can talk as they walk along the beach!
When they say someone has a soaring voice, it means (to me) that they’re confusing the singer with the style of music being sung.
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I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.
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That’s what it means.
Canzonetta sull’aria
At his best, Art Garfunkel. Check out the version of “Bridge over Troubled Waters” on the “Live 69” set. Without the instrumentation and explosion from the version we’ve heard for all these years, this was just the piano and the voice. Most of the audience was probably hearing the song for the very first time and there was a perceptible pause between him finishing the song and the start of the applause, as if the audience was so moved they forgot they were supposed to clap.
It’s not just effortless high notes, but also vocal flexibility. You have to be able to get up and down easily. And, yes, this woman has it.
Although I also do not particularly like the timbre of her lower notes–though that is a personal preference. I like a brighter sound, achieved by a more forward placement. Her higher notes are gorgeous, though.
Not a huge fan of Netrebko; she’s fine, but not terribly exciting. O mio babbino is a pretty enough aria, but it doesn’t do much. It’s not even particularly high (that doesn’t speak to the general idea of whether she has a soaring voice; she can certainly sing considerably higher).
I think “soaring” has an implication of a certain sustain of the high notes as well. I don’t think, for instance, that the Queen of the Night particularly soars.