A Quote by Ned Rorem

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

Ned Rorem

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Ned Rorem
American - Composer
Born: October 23, 1923

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

Alfredo Kraus

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

Juan Diego Florez

For me, bel canto is medicine for the voice.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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

Harry Secombe

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

Jenn Suhr

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

Sondra Radvanovsky

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

Jenn Suhr

I like underwater pole vaulting, because you can have perfect form without the risk.

Katie Hoff

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

Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer, though." Tod laughed out loud and I groaned. "Sophie takes ballet and jazz. She's not a pole dancer." "There's more money in pole dancing," Sabine insisted.

Rachel Vincent

The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and it doesn't trickle down unless all of society understands that we must support the arts, whether it's ballet, opera, fashion. Fashion is like opera, is like ballet, is like theatre. It's a visual theatre.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

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

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

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