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3 unusual facts about Bel Canto


Coup de glotte

Manen, Bel Canto: The Teaching of the Classical Italian Song-Schools, Its Decline and Restoration (Oxford University Press, 1987).

Haru Kobayashi

Reiko Takeshita, her student, commented that her singing might be that of Bel canto.

Ossia

Bel canto vocal music also frequently uses ossia, also called oppure, passages to illustrate a more embellished version of the vocal line (Fallows 774).


Christine Atallah

Christine did her musical studies at Concordia University in Montreal and then went to Milan, where she trained and sang alongside some of Italy's great bel canto singers.

Cristina Deutekom

She also scored triumphant successes in Italy in the great bel canto roles of that era's composers, including Rossini, specifically Armida; in Bellini's Norma and I puritani; and in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

Espen Grjotheim

He has worked with numerous record producers, including Sissel Kyrkjebø, Bel Canto, Erik Faber and Maria Arredondo.

Gabriella Tucci

A versatile singer and an accomplished actress, Tucci was able to tackle a wide range of roles from bel canto to verismo, singing Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Elvira in I puritani, Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in La traviata, and Marguerite in Faust, as well as Maddalena in Andrea Chénier and the title role in Tosca.

Ivan Yershov

(He also feared that his musical interpretations would be stifled by the prevailing Bayreuth style of singing, which preferred Sprechgesang to bel canto.)

New Opera Singapore

In 2012, New Opera Singapore began a series of productions that included the second Opera Comique production, ‘In the Classroom’; Gaetano Donizetti’s bel canto opera L'elisir d'amore, and Franz Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin.

William Vennard

This shift in approach led to the rejection of many of the beliefs and practices held since the bel canto era, most particularly in the areas of vocal registration and vocal resonation.


see also

Bel Canto Singers

The Bel Canto Singers is an established choral society based in Redditch (near Birmingham), UK.

Fedora Barbieri

Barbieri can be seen and heard in the role of Madelon on a DVD of the opera "Andrea Chénier", which stars Plácido Domingo, issued by the Bel Canto Society; also as Giovanna in "Rigoletto" filmed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle with Luciano Pavarotti, and again with Domingo as Mamma Lucia in Franco Zeffirelli's "Cavalleria rusticana".

Madison Avenue Baptist Church

On April 4, 1971, the "first" U.S. concert version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar was presented by the Bel Canto Opera in the church.

Martin Katz

Editions of Baroque and bel canto operas prepared by Katz have been performed at the Metropolitan Opera, the Houston Grand Opera, and Opera Lyra Ottawa.

Pol Plançon

His predecessors and contemporaries in this Gallic bel canto tradition included such celebrated artists as Henri-Bernard Dabadie, Nicolas Levasseur, Luigi Lablache, Prosper Dérivis, Paul Barroilhet, Jean-Baptiste Faure (see above), Victor Maurel, Jean Lassalle and Maurice Renaud.