Before the vocal glory of Callas and Sutherland, sopranos with lighter timbres often sang bel canto roles. |
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With our later discovery of bel canto opera we suddenly woke up to what we had missed. |
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Her contributions to the bel canto repertoire sometimes are forgotten, and this recording is good example of why they shouldn't be. |
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This is demonstrated by good choral training, and bel canto voice training, and so forth. |
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He is one of the few conductors who feel bel canto in their blood and can pass that on to you. |
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I don't have enough Bellini in my life. I think my problem with bel canto is that the beautiful bits are very beautiful. |
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This couplet, which appears by itself rather than as the conclusion of a longer passage, forms the final two lines of the second canto. |
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Levy's glistening cascades of tonal warmth were pure instrumental bel canto. |
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The bel canto operas of Vicenzo Bellini are endowed with an endless font of inspired melodies. |
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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 rediscovery of Italian bel canto opera more or less passed New York by. |
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Executed on large sheets of sheepskin parchment, each extraordinarily delicate ink line drawing illustrates one canto or section of Dante's poem. |
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Equally halting, the ants simile in canto XXVI represents the occasional conflict between narrative clarity and structural exigency. |
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Instrumental music is a human being teaching a musical instrument to sing, to sing bel canto. |
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In the last canto, it transpires that the louse had tumbled down from his own wig. |
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This singular indebtedness is registered canto after canto, as both pilgrim and poet quite literally follow in Virgil's beloved footsteps. |
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Fans of this opera and of bel canto opera in general, should find this a rewarding addition to their collection. |
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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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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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The Commedia's last allusion to Virgil occurs as late as the final canto, when the poet marks the dissolution of his own powers in the face of God's reality. |
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Wonderful, unique, incomparable, the support gives the voice and the bel canto all its beauty and nobleness, necessary to its existence. |
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A chance to discover Greek diva Dimitra Theodossiou, herself a queen of the bel canto, who triumphs on stages across Europe. |
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Wagner composed beautifully for the voice but you have to approach his music with all the techniques of the best bel canto style. |
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He invests virtually every phrase with incomparable authority and elegance, paying tribute to a pianistic bel canto while rendering its texture completely transparent. |
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There has been no shortage of agile tenors recently to handle the florid bel canto repertory, but none I've encountered offers this kind of total package. |
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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. |
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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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The canto a tenore is especially vulnerable to socio-economic changes, such as the decline of the pastoral culture and the increase of tourism in Sardinia. |
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In Grynyuk's hands, Chopin's bel canto folk melodies and original harmony were one and the same thing. |
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When we consider the first sixty verses of the opening canto, we find that they are perhaps surprisingly without individuated beings. |
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There were also weak attempts at bel canto, suggesting Groban may want to consider moonlighting at Miceli's if it all falls through tomorrow. |
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Originally known for bel canto performances of works by Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Grammy-award winning soprano June Anderson was the first non-Italian ever to win the prestigious Bellini d'Oro prize. |
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The expressive virtuosity, the animated brilliance such as characterizes important bel canto arias, was later adopted by Chopin as the model for his concertante works. |
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Technically there are 33 cantos in each canticle and one additional canto, contained in the Inferno, which serves as an introduction to the entire poem. |
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Byron commemorated this feat in the second canto of Don Juan. |
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The prolonged, climactic coloratura mad scene for Lucia in Donizetti's 1835 bel canto opera Lucia di Lammermoor is based on what in the novel were just a few bland sentences. |
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Particular attention is paid to Lusitanos indebtedness to earlier Iberian writings, most notably Matheo de Aranda's Tractado de canto mensurable y contrapunto. |
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On returning to Venice, he wrote the fourth canto of Childe Harold. |
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The book also introduces readers to some emerging vocabulary intrinsic to this religious experience, such as nepantla, flor y canto, altares, rasquachismo, curandero, limpia. |
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