But all this, I am well aware, is the bel canto of love, and although I have always liked to think that it was to the bel canto and to that alone that I listened, I know well enough that it was not.

A few of Rossini's operas remained popular throughout his lifetime and continuously since his demise ; others were resurrected from semi-obscurity in the last half of the 20th century, during the so-called " bel canto revival.

The first third of the 19th century saw the highpoint of the bel canto style, with Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini all creating works that are still performed today.

The bel canto opera movement flourished in the early 19th century and is exemplified by the operas of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Pacini, Mercadante and many others.

Literally " beautiful singing ", bel canto opera derives from the Italian stylistic singing school of the same name.

Following the bel canto era, a more direct, forceful style was rapidly popularized by Giuseppe Verdi, beginning with his biblical opera Nabucco.

Carl Maria von Weber established German Romantic opera in opposition to the dominance of Italian bel canto.

By the 1820s, Gluckian influence in France had given way to a taste for Italian bel canto, especially after the arrival of Rossini in Paris.

Many of the most challenging tenor roles in the repertory were written during the bel canto era, such as Donizetti's sequence of 9 Cs above middle C during La fille du régiment.

The prolonged, climatic 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.

Known for his long-flowing melodic lines, for which he was named " the Swan of Catania ", Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera.

Along with Vincenzo Bellini and Gioachino Rossini, he was a leading composer of bel canto opera.

It became his most famous opera, and one of the high points of the bel canto tradition, reaching stature similar to Bellini's Norma.

After Rossini moved to Paris in 1824, Pacini and his contemporaries ( Giacomo Meyerbeer, Nicola Vaccai, Michele Carafa, Carlo Coccia, Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, the brothers Federico and Luigi Ricci, and Saverio Mercadante ) collectively began to change the nature of Italian opera and took bel canto singing in a new direction.

Both of them featured bel canto works, dating from Rubini's day, in their operatic repertoires, and both of them can be heard on recordings which faithfully capture the distinct shimmer inherent in their timbre.

The bel canto style of vocalism which arose in Italy in the early 19th century supplanted the castrato-dominated opera seria of the previous century.

The principal composers of bel canto opera are considered to be:

Commentators praised his voice for its beauty, flexibility and smooth tonal emission, which are the hallmarks of a bel canto singer.

Chernov followed in the footsteps of such richly endowed East European baritones as Ippolit Pryanishnikov ( a favorite of Tchaikovski's ), Joachim Tartakov ( an Everardi pupil ), Oskar Kamionsky ( an exceptional bel canto singer nicknamed the " Russian Battistini "), Waclaw Brzezinski ( known as the " Polish Battistini "), Georges Baklanoff ( a powerful singing actor ), and, during a career lasting from 1935 to 1966, the Bolshoi's Pavel Lisitsian.

She possessed a brilliant bel canto technique and was considered a rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti.

* Domenico Reina ( 1796 – 1843 ), Swiss bel canto tenor

This style was emulated by other bel canto composers, especially Bellini ; and later by Wagner ( in pure instrumental terms, discarding the closing vocal cadenza ).

Fry's most notable composition was the opera Leonora, which received mixed reviews upon its opening and was criticized for its debt to Vincenzo Bellini's bel canto style.

Recognized for her sense of style, musicality and as a remarkable singer-actress, Scotto is considered one of the preeminent singers of her generation, specializing in the bel canto repertoire with excursions into the verismo and Verdi repertoires.

Mertz's guitar music, unlike that of most of his contemporaries, followed the pianistic models of Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann, rather than the classical models of Mozart and Haydn ( as did Sor and Aguado ), or the bel canto style of Rossini ( as did Giuliani ).

His style and technique were particularly well suited to the operas of Verdi, and to the bel canto works composed by Bellini and Donizetti ( such as I Puritani, Lucia di Lammermoor and La favorite ).

Trained in the bel canto style, von Stade is known for her roles in Rossini's The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola.

Parisian audiences of the time also loved Italian opera, visiting the Théâtre Italien to see opera buffa and works in the newly fashionable bel canto style, especially those by Rossini, whose fame was sweeping across Europe.

Rabin played in a bel canto style.

The piano style of not only Chopin, but also his contemporaries, owes much to the bel canto operas of composers like Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, as well as to the leading singers of the day.

She demonstrated in a Caro nome of exquisite taste, effortless fluidity and pinpoint precision that she is a master of the bel canto style.

As generally understood today, the term " bel canto " refers to the Italian-originated vocal style that prevailed throughout most of Europe during the 18th century and lingered in a less elaborate but still dominant form until around 1840.

The hallmarks of the bel canto style were:

The phrase " bel canto " did not enter common usage until the middle of the 19th century, when it was set in opposition to the development of a weightier, more powerful style of speech-inflected singing associated with German opera and, above all, Richard Wagner's revolutionary music dramas.

Interestingly enough, French musicians and composers never embraced the more florid extremes of the 18th-century Italian bel canto style.

"( signature )</ center > The popularity of the bel canto style as espoused by Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini faded in Italy during the mid-19th century.

Marchesi was clearly committed to the bel canto style of singing.

She asserted that there were only two styles of singing: " the good ... and the bad " and argued that a properly trained vocalist could sing the old bel canto style just as easily as the then newer, more dramatic style.

It has an image of the Italian geologist and paleontologist Antonio Stoppani, whose geological treatise Il bel paese gave its name to the Galbani cheese ; but while on the wrapping of the cheese made in Italy Stoppani's image comes with a map of Italy, cheese made in the United States has a map of the Americas.

This episode featured Maria Callas ' performance of Un bel dì, vedremo.

While this was her first engagement in a bel canto opera and she had to learn the role in less than one month, her performance made her famous throughout the opera world.