Bel canto (Italian for 'beautiful singing' / 'beautiful song', Italian:[ˈbɛlˈkanto])—with several similar constructions (bellezze del canto, bell'arte del canto, pronounced in English as /bɛlˈkəntəʊ/ⓘ)—is a term with several meanings that relate to Italian singing.[1]
The phrase was not associated with a "school" of singing until the middle of the 19th century, when writers in the early 1860s used it nostalgically to describe a manner of singing that had begun to wane around 1830.[2] Nonetheless, "neither musical nor general dictionaries saw fit to attempt [a] definition [of bel canto] until after 1900". The term remains vague and ambiguous in the 21st century and is often used to evoke a lost singing tradition.[3]
Belcanto (Italian for 'beautiful singing' / 'beautiful song', Italian: [ˈbɛl ˈkanto])—with several similar constructions (bellezze del canto, bell'arte...
The BelCanto Trio, consisting of tenor Mario Lanza, soprano Frances Yeend and bass-baritone George London, was created by Columbia Artists Management...
roles were sometimes sung by singers of either actual voice part. The belcanto style of vocalism which arose in Italy in the early 19th century supplanted...
tradition. The first third of the 19th century saw the high point of the belcanto style, with Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini...
Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel BelCanto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft...
praised her belcanto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the belcanto operas...
The BelCanto Chorus is a Milwaukee-area community chorus, and one of the oldest musical organizations in Wisconsin. The choir was first founded in 1931...
and gradually proceeded into heavier roles of the 19th-century Italian belcanto repertoire. Her signature roles include the Queen of the Night in The...
from the city of Tromsø. She is the frontwoman for the dream pop band BelCanto. Drecker's father Peter, a German from Bielefeld, emigrated in 1960 to...
relying more on tessitura to cast different roles in opera. In Italian belcanto, the soprano did not have extremely high notes actually written (often...
the early 19th-century repertoire – the era of Italian Romanticism and belcanto – and especially the legendary singer Maria Malibran, the 200th anniversary...
New Zealand tenor opera singer, specialising in lyrical repertoire and belcanto. He has been singing on all international stages since 2017 and has had...
Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-20378-6. Stark, James (2003). BelCanto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8614-3...
German Romantic opera in order to challenge the dominance of Italian belcanto. Master of orchestral colour and atmosphere, Weber was never well served...
Garlandia and Jerome of Moravia. The terms were later adopted within belcanto, the Italian opera singing method, where chest voice was identified as...
demonic, fractured character". Lambert was part of the ensemble cast of BelCanto from director Paul Weitz, an adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same...
was a German mezzo-soprano, a singing teacher, and a proponent of the belcanto vocal method. Marchesi was born in Frankfurt. Her father's last name was...
endless melodies. Requiem for the Living was recorded in 2013 by the BelCanto Company, with soloists boy soprano Donovan Elliott, soprano Lindsey McConville...
The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the belcanto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani...
sculpture in the ateliers Massana and Leonardo da Vinci in Barcelona and belcanto in the Conservatory of Sofia. She has performed in operas at the Liceu...
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