@Agnes: sorry, I do not want to annoy you but I
want to annoy MissSwan simply cannot leave MissSwan without an answer!
haha definitely Lori, there is no question about it... as much as I'd like Tarja (see NeMo I'm a person that can be objective 
) Lori will always be better... bigger range, better technique,better breathing, better control, let's not mention how Lori can sing for a month in a row, every night over 2h or in december, 16 nights for 3h (and travelling by bus every day), while Tarja was complaining about shows that lasted for 1.5h... I don't think I need to go on
MissSwan do not forget that Tarja was singing almost all 1.5h of those 1.5h while Lori was singing at most 1h of those 3h, with long breaks in between.
And about the range, I'm not an expert for that, but I've read somewhere that Tarja has the range of 3 octaves, and I know that it is an average range, nothing extraordinary (see, I can be objective too
). But I don't know about Lori's range, do you?
Obviously she can go higher than Tarja, but I somehow got the impression she cannot go very deep. While on the other hand Tarja can - listen to the ending of Angels Fall First and certain sentences in Creek Mary's Blood.
