bel canto

Examples

• All

• By then, Richard had been singing bel canto arias falsetto to her parrot.

  Fiction book (1993)

• A real touchstone of the bel canto repertoire.

  Bats (1999)

• To the great days of bel canto, When the old Italian opera companies used to come to Dublin.

  The Dead (1987)

• When Koreans perform their traditional folk music, they sing from the abdomen in a fashion similar to the bel canto style of Western music.

  Academic text (2013)

• This somewhat intense and narrow timbre with a larger vibrato is different from that produced by typical European classical vocal techniques, like head voice and bel canto.

  Academic text (2015)

• In the lighthouse, where he neither has company nor can bring himself to sing in his famous bel canto, he has no way to fend off his peculiar nausea when he feels its imminence, as now.

  Fiction book (2002)

• And in print: "El bel canto yace putrefacto en la tumba," using the ancient "yace" for "reposes, lies."

  Fiction book (1991)

• The operatic style known as bel canto emphasizes the beauty of the human voice through smooth and lyrical phrasing.

• Many famous operas, such as those by Rossini, are renowned for their use of bel canto techniques.

• She trained for years to master the bel canto style, focusing on tone purity and vocal agility.

Antonyms

S

screeching

58 3.3

A very loud high sound that hurts your ears

How Lyrical

bel canto

• Specialized

1 9.1

classical

1 3.9

musical theater

• US

19 3.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology