Who do they think they are, these people who want to teach us our trade? We know it ever so much better than they do. Let composers stick to their méetier and let us do ours! Composers who write out ...

Why is Opera Circle so smitten with this composer? "I think a company like ours is in a very good position to perform Bellini because of its attention to phrasing, focus on music and simple staging, ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Sea Beyond stars Giacomo Giorgio and Serena de Ferrari are among several Italian actors who have boarded Rai’s ambitious opera drama Bel Canto, which went into production this week.

The "beautiful singing" of the early 1800s marks an appealing milestone in the story of opera. Talk Like An Opera Geek: Savoring The Bel Canto Sound Talk Like An Opera Geek: Savoring The Bel Canto ...

Teatro Nuovo, which trains musicians in bel canto style, returns with productions of a rare “Macbeth” and “La Sonnambula.” By Arya Roshanian Reporting from Montclair, N.J. A lot of opera houses, big ...

Don Pasquale at Opera Theatre of St. Louis is delight stem to stern! Susanne Burgess sings Norina, the quintessential bel canto soprano role. She’s astonishing! She defines that vocal style. This ...

It was a gruesome spectacle that greeted guests on the night of a wedding in early 18th-century Scotland. A bride stumbled down the steps of a castle in her blood-stained wedding dress, hallucinating ...

Teatro Nuovo, which trains musicians in bel canto style, returns with productions of a rare “Macbeth” and “La Sonnambula.” By Arya Roshanian Teatro Nuovo is giving Carolina Uccelli’s pioneering “Anna ...

When a singer makes a debut, he is usually being introduced to the public. But when Lawrence Brownlee makes his company debut with the Washington National Opera http ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Call it bel canto in the Rust Belt. The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” plucks the ill-fated heroine out of the Scottish hills where Sir Walter Scott ...

Danielle de Niese and John Irvin in Lyric Opera of Chicago's "Bel Canto." (Photo by Todd Rosenberg Photography) CHICAGO - "Bel canto," Italian for "beautiful singing," is a phrase that gave its name ...