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.

His bel canto style gave the performance a special distinction.

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

Callas, in contrast, considered herself a dramatic coloratura soprano and started her career in the heaviest roles, but soon after, concentrated on the bel canto repertoire, which were not a good fit for Tebaldi's vocal range and technique.

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.

For many years, Horne was associated with the Australian soprano Dame Joan Sutherland in their performances of the bel canto repertoire.

Renée Fleming ( born February 14, 1959 ) is an American soprano whose repertoire encompasses Richard Strauss, Mozart, Handel, bel canto, lieder, French opera and chansons, jazz and indie rock.

She has sung a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.

In 2007 / 08 Bartoli devoted her time to studying and recording the early 19th century repertoire – the era of Italian Romanticism and bel canto – and especially the legendary singer Maria Malibran, the 200th anniversary of whose birth was celebrated in March 2008.

From the 1960s until the early 1970s, his speciality was music of 18th and early 19th century, mostly in bel canto repertoire of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti.

Known as " La Diva Turca " ( The Turkish Diva ) and " La Regina " ( The Queen ) in the opera world, Gencer was a notable bel canto soprano who spent most of her career in Italy, from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s, and had a repertoire encompassing more than seventy roles.

It also awakened the public's ears to the dramatic possibilities of the bel canto repertoire being sung by fuller, darker voices which could still manage the florid intricacies of this music, and ultimately resulted in the " Bel Canto Revival " that lasted for several decades.

A highly gifted singer, Strepponi excelled in the bel canto repertoire and spent much of her career portraying roles in operas by Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, often sharing the stage with tenor Napoleone Moriani and baritone Giorgio Ronconi.

In the next decade, Anderson continued to pursue traditional bel canto roles, but also expanded her repertoire.

Turin, Einaudi, 1964 ) has spoken of linguistic indeterminacy – Petrarch never rises above the " bel pié " ( her lovely foot ): Laura is too holy to be painted ; she is an awe-inspiring goddess.

Such great early-20th century international operatic stars as Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle and Titta Ruffo developed vocal techniques which harmoniously managed to combine fundamental bel canto precepts with a more ' modern ', straightforward mode of ripe-toned singing when delivering Verismo music, and their example has influenced operatic performers down to this day ( see Scott ).

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.

In recent years, she has enjoyed some success with a number of the most important bel canto roles ; however, her tendency to ' scoop ' up to notes and slide back down inappropriately has attracted criticism.

Gruberová has made many recordings, most notably in recent years full-length recordings and extended selections from Donizetti's Tudor Queens trilogy and other bel canto operas, lately exclusively on Nightingale label.

This is a mistake of the translator, who has apparently confused the word белок ( belok, Russian genitive plural for белка ( squirrel )) for a homographic белок ( bel ' ok, protein ),.

The former New York City Opera artist has built a European career in recent years by taking on bel canto roles that other sopranos don't want to sing, mainly because they can't.

In the introduction to a collection of songs by Italian masters published in 1887 in Berlin under the title Il bel canto, Franz Sieber wrote: " In our time, when the most offensive shrieking under the extenuating device of ' dramatic singing ' has spread everywhere, when the ignorant masses appear much more interested in how loud rather than how beautiful the singing is, a collection of songs will perhaps be welcome which – as the title purports – may assist in restoring bel canto to its rightful place.