• Bel canto (Italian for 'beautiful singing' / 'beautiful song', Italian: [ˈbɛl ˈkanto])—with several similar constructions (bellezze del canto, bell'arte...
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  • Bel canto is an opera term that literally means "beautiful singing". Bel Canto may also refer to: Bel Canto (novel), a novel by Ann Patchett Bel canto...
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  • Bel Canto is the fourth novel by American author Ann Patchett, published in 2001 by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. It was awarded...
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  • Bel Canto is a 2018 American drama film directed by Paul Weitz, from a screenplay by Weitz and Anthony Weintraub. It is based on the 2001 novel of the...
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    Bel Canto is a Norwegian music duo, originally a trio, fronted by vocalist Anneli Drecker, and signed originally to Crammed Discs. Bel Canto was formed...
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  • The Bel Canto Trio, consisting of tenor Mario Lanza, soprano Frances Yeend and bass-baritone George London, was created by Columbia Artists Management...
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  • Bel Canto is an opera by Peruvian composer Jimmy López. Based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Ann Patchett, the work uses a libretto by Pulitzer...
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  • The Bel Canto Chorus is a Milwaukee-area community chorus, and one of the oldest musical organizations in Wisconsin. The choir was first founded in 1931...
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  • roles were sometimes sung by singers of either actual voice part. The bel canto style of vocalism which arose in Italy in the early 19th century supplanted...
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    praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas...
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  • blustering antagonist of the hero/heroine or the comic-relief fool in bel canto operas. Don Pasquale, Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti Dottor Dulcamara...
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    tradition. The first third of the 19th century saw the high point of the bel canto style, with Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini...
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    Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include The Patron Saint of Liars (1992), Taft...
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    and gradually proceeded into heavier roles of the 19th-century Italian bel canto repertoire. Her signature roles include the Queen of the Night in The...
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  • Bel Canto is a chain of restaurants, based in Paris, France, where singers perform live opera arias for the diners. Bel Canto employs opera singers as...
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    from the city of Tromsø. She is the frontwoman for the dream pop band Bel Canto. Drecker's father Peter, a German from Bielefeld, emigrated in 1960 to...
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    the early 19th-century repertoire – the era of Italian Romanticism and bel canto – and especially the legendary singer Maria Malibran, the 200th anniversary...
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    demonic, fractured character". Lambert was part of the ensemble cast of Bel Canto from director Paul Weitz, an adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same...
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    roles, but is best known as an exponent of the works of Verdi and of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti. She...
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  • relying more on tessitura to cast different roles in opera. In Italian bel canto, the soprano did not have extremely high notes actually written (often...
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    New Zealand tenor opera singer, specialising in lyrical repertoire and bel canto. He has been singing on international stages since 2017 and has had a...
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    his range and versatility, having possessed a sufficiently accomplished bel canto technique which enabled him to sing the music of Handel, Mozart and Rossini...
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    1973) is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration...
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  • vocal pedagogue in New York City, specialist in the bel canto technique, and author of books on bel canto. Childhood As a boy of nine Reid became a chorister...
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    dorma" at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Pavarotti was at his best in bel canto operas, pre-Aida Verdi roles, and Puccini works such as La bohème, Tosca...
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    bel canto of Rossini and Bellini, and Mozart. In 2016, Richard Bonynge presented him with the Joan Sutherland & Richard Bonynge Foundation Bel Canto Award...
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    The Sleepwalker) is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini set to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani...
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    quietly spellbinding star performance". Her second film that year was Bel Canto, a thriller based on Ann Patchett's novel of the same name about the Japanese...
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    and by that time even smaller labels in the U.S. such as Concertapes, Bel Canto and Westminster along with major labels such as RCA Victor began releasing...
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  • describes a historical singing practice developed and used especially by the bel canto tenors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century to extend the...
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