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I wouldn't be me if my repertoire wasn't bel canto.

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Juan Diego Florez
Peruvian - Musician
Born: January 13, 1973

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

Sondra Radvanovsky

My voice is not so much 'bel canto' as 'can belto'.

Harry Secombe

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

Ned Rorem

There was something in the bel canto, not just opera, but a certain style of Italian singing that I responded to deeply.

Robert Davi

I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.

Anna Netrebko

Singing bel canto is like walking on a tightrope - especially with a larger voice like mine.

Sondra Radvanovsky

I want to be known by people who are knowledgeable about opera, who appreciate bel canto singing, people who have more sensitivity.

Alfredo Kraus

My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.

Sebastian Bach

When you do a 'messa di voce,' that means you start soft, you crescendo into loud - and then you go back to soft again. Some people call it circus tricks, but in bel canto, it's really written into the music.

Sondra Radvanovsky

I'm lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I'm pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.

Juan Diego Florez

They both changed the way we hear the sound of the piano, both of them inventors of sonority: Chopin took bel canto singing lines and reproduced them on the keyboard above richly upholstered counterpoint; Debussy somehow preserved vibrations in the air, blending their ephemeral magic into music that reaches far back into deep memory.

Stephen Hough

When I'm doing sports, I always think of how it's related to singing, and when I watch tennis, I learn a lot for my singing: how the players are focused, how they use their technique, and, in the case of Roger Federer, how effortless it is and how beautiful it is to watch - like bel canto, in a way. That's how singing should be.

Juan Diego Florez

The name of the show was 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' not 'Philip and Viv of Bel-Air.' If you didn't want to walk away from the best job in the world over a petty issue, you accepted the way it was.

James Avery

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

Lorna Luft

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American

Lorna Luft

I don't record for my own glory.I mean, of course part of it is for career advancement, but more importantly, I want some of that repertoire - as much of it as possible - to remain and enter pianists' consciousness and, hopefully, into the standard repertoire.

Marc-Andre Hamelin

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