Welcome to my little corner of the internet. Thanks for stopping by. This site has exceeded my expectations, drawing visitors from around the world interested in the Bel Canto technique. In response to this site, I have personally spoken to interested callers from as far away as San Diego, New Jersey and even Israel!
The Bel Canto technique originates in the days of Italian opera where control and the tone quality of the voice were paramount. Although translated, Bel Canto simply means "beautiful singing," it is much more than a descriptor of any given singing style. The practitioners of Bel Canto such as Lamperti used specific techniques in producing the voice that resulted in resonance and purity of tone, consistency of tone across the registers of the voice, a high degree of breath control, excellent projection, and longevity of the voice. Unfortunately, over the years, the term "Bel Canto" has become watered-down and too broadly used such that it has lost a lot of the specifics of the original meaning it once had.
Bel Canto is ALL of the following:
Any technique that leaves out ANY of this (note the inhalation of the voice especially!) is a version of Bel Canto that has been manipulated for the sake of convenience or is lacking due to ignorance. Many people who claim to use and teach Bel Canto genuinely believe they are doing so, but that is only because the teachers they studied with were victim to someone else's sense of convenience or ignorance along the way.
Now that I have your attention with some of those potentially contentious points, please feel free to navigate through this site to find out more!