How To Use Bel canto In A Sentence
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
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The bel canto opera repertoire is most closely associated with Bellini's deranged heroines and Donizetti's game gamines.
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The end of the book includes a short glossary of terms to help readers with certain concepts such as bel canto, leitmotif and verismo.
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His style has a certain bel canto elegance, but the sound is nasal and pinched.
Times, Sunday Times
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But in the 1880s, as the effort got under way to make the Irish respectable by returning them to their imagined roots, Olcott was recruited to perform “authentic” Irish songs in an operatic, bel canto style.
A Renegade History of the United States
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His style has a certain bel canto elegance, but the sound is nasal and pinched.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was a cavatina junkie from an early age, but I've had good luck convincing more dramatically-inclined skeptics of the viability of bel canto by starting with Verdi and working chronologically backwards.
Pretty Woman
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She revived operas from the bel canto era which, since her time, have become staples of the repertoire.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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Called “La Stupenda,” she combined the heft of a Wagnerian singer with the agility and upper register of a coloratura soprano, leading to powerful interpretations of great bel canto roles that had lain dormant for decades -- following in the wake of Maria Callas, who had spearheaded their initial revival.
Joan Sutherland: addio, Stupenda
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Bel canto is all about candy for the ear and the eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, I use a large amount of words to elaborate how the famous recitative and aria in West Side Story and The Phantom Of The Opera are shown by Bel canto.
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His style has a certain bel canto elegance, but the sound is nasal and pinched.
Times, Sunday Times
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The "forward" face guard theory and "backward" pharynx sound theory, developed from the Italian traditional Bel Canto, are the core threads that run through all ideas in various vocal music schools.
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The nocturnes in particular respond to Italian bel canto, in their widely spanning melodic arcs, their fioriture, and their stylization of such vocal embellishments as portamento and parlando repetitions of a single note.
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That the score is so delicious only adds to the gaiety of this bel canto bromance.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's the prime masterpiece of the period where Verdi went from a talented master of the Italian operatic tradition to a genius of reinvention: Verdi saw that the conventions of bel canto — the coloratura decoration, the steady build from recitative to cavatina to cabaletta, the diagetic justification for dance and popular music — had matured to the point that their mere presence could have dramatic content above and beyond the story.
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First , the singer must master the technique of bel canto, which is the basic requirement.
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As the 19th century progressed, Italian composers Rossini (pictured right), Donizetti and Bellini continued to compose lyrical scores – their writing privileged the expressive power of the human voice in what has become known as the bel canto (beautiful singing) style.
Opera through the ages
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That the score is so delicious only adds to the gaiety of this bel canto bromance.
Times, Sunday Times
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His style has a certain bel canto elegance, but the sound is nasal and pinched.
Times, Sunday Times
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At that audition I did not have any Baroque arias prepared so I sang my usual bel canto coloratura and he hired me on the spot.
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Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto.
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I recall the soprano in Ann Patchett's Bel Canto making the comment that she never allowed people to see/hear her practice.
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Vincenzo Bellini Milan, Italy, 1831Boasting the famous Casta Diva aria, Norma is the ultimate bel canto tragedy about a druid priestess who, secretly, has two children and an erring lover, with catastrophic results.
Top 50 operas
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He's just finished rehearsing the Act One finale of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Rossini's "Le Comte Ory," a lesser-known bel canto work that he calls "a really great French pastry made by an incredible Italian chef.
Bringing Fresh Eyes to the Opera
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Cuius animam gementem, with its soft martial rhythm and bravura high D-flat, its ariosi redolent with Italian bel canto, Mozart, and Gluck.
Audiophile Audition Headlines
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Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo.
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It's a succour to those seeking shelter from the blunt drama of the economy, a role that bel canto has taken on before.
Times, Sunday Times
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You recorded two albums as part of Bel Canto, which was, and still is, a rather successful band.
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Essentially a lyric soprano with coloratura (and later spinto) capabilities, she was at home in both Mozart and Richard Strauss, as well as in bel canto and verismo.
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Under conductor Will Crutchfield, the orchestra and chorus brought richness and bel canto lyricism to the score, from the galloping motifs of the overture to the antiphonal horn playing that evoked the echoes of the Swiss mountains, the lively, fugal mustering of the cantons in Act II, and the victorious tremolos of the finale.
Pared 'Flute' Is a Muted Production
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Here she also shows some impressive bel canto chops.
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Bel canto is a good basis for both opera and lieder.
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It's not hard to see why bel canto is making such a comeback.
Times, Sunday Times
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How does Bel Canto differ from the other novels you've written?
A Conversation with Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto
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Acclaimed "La Stupenda,"– "the Stupendous One"– during a career spanning more than four decades, Sutherland was known in the opera world as an "anti-diva" diva whose warm vibrant sound and subtle coloring helped revitalize the school of early 19th-century Italian opera known as bel canto.
Joan Sutherland Dies: Famed Soprano Dead At 83
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The "forward" face guard theory and "backward" pharynx sound theory, developed from the Italian traditional Bel Canto, are the core threads that run through all ideas in various vocal music schools.
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The rediscovery of Italian bel canto opera more or less passed New York by.
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Singing a real bel canto.
Times, Sunday Times
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Duan is our Chinese teacher, he was a graduate of the Music Department. He sings songs very well, but also Bel Canto. He gave us his wonderful singing voice.
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That the score is so delicious only adds to the gaiety of this bel canto bromance.
Times, Sunday Times
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This year they turned to Bellini, staging Norma, generally regarded as one of the composer's finest bel canto masterpieces, and not so long ago a showpiece for Maria Callas.