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  • "My son was given the gift of the 'belcanto' which made him a great singer who was acclaimed throughout the world," his mother Paola said in a letter to the hospital.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Running through the end of February and fusing jazz, belcanto and baroque music in its playbill, Musical Hermitage encompasses a series of chamber concerts and jazz evenings in the Hermitage Theater, as well as in the Glinka Chamber Philharmonic Hall and the State Academic Cappella.

    The St. Petersburg Times 2010

  • Riccardo Frizza, with already ten Rossini operas under his belt, has been rapidly making a name for himself as a belcanto conductor.

    parterre box Ercole Farnese 2010

  • His instrument also possesses a certain burnished virility not so common among true belcanto tenors.

    parterre box Ercole Farnese 2010

  • Schopenhauer thought that German was only second to Greek and Latin, the French think that their language allows for more precision than any other, Italian is the language of belcanto, and I suppose that even some Eskimo dialects are preferable to English when you are going to hunt seals.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Schopenhauer thought that German was only second to Greek and Latin, the French think that their language allows for more precision than any other, Italian is the language of belcanto, and I suppose that even some Eskimo dialects are preferable to English when you are going to hunt seals.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Schopenhauer thought that German was only second to Greek and Latin, the French think that their language allows for more precision than any other, Italian is the language of belcanto, and I suppose that even some Eskimo dialects are preferable to English when you are going to hunt seals.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Schopenhauer thought that German was only second to Greek and Latin, the French think that their language allows for more precision than any other, Italian is the language of belcanto, and I suppose that even some Eskimo dialects are preferable to English when you are going to hunt seals.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • A season of belcanto rep. costumed entirely in chic swimwear. could ditch the orchestra for a prerecorded backing track and fill the pit with water. casting would be so easy these days. trebbas diving into the pool from the royal box. free opera glasses with tickets. haterz have been left behind!!!

    unknown title 2008

  • A season of belcanto rep. costumed entirely in chic swimwear. could ditch the orchestra for a prerecorded backing track and fill the pit with water. casting would be so easy these days. trebbas diving into the pool from the royal box. free opera glasses with tickets. haterz have been left behind!!!

    unknown title 2008

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