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Hidden : 2/13/2006
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Voici la version féminine et musicale de VE2OGH qui refait surface pour célébrer Passion et Amour en ce mois de février 2006 avec sa nouvelle série BEL CANTO.

Le terme italien 'BEL CANTO' se traduit littéralement par 'beau chant'. 'Bel canto' est aussi le nom donné à la période d'opéra italien, qui a produit l'un des styles musicaux les plus excitants et les plus virtuoses de l'histoire de la musique.

Il est né le 29 février 1792 à Pesaro et il est décédé le 13 novembre 1868.
Il écrit son premier opéra, le Barbier de Séville (1816), en treize jours. C'est le premier d'une série de quarante opéras, dont les plus joués et les plus appréciés de nos jours sont l'Italienne à Alger, (1813), la Pie voleuse, (1813), le Turc en Italie, (1814), et Semiramide (1823).


Bel canto means, most literally, "beautiful singing." It is a term used to describe all Italian singing, but in particular the light, bright quality that Italian opera singers use to charm audiences. Despite bel canto's popularity, it is shrouded in obscurity. The history of this art is a complicated and mysterious one.

Bel canto was initially used by men, and, at its earliest, by male religious singers. The Italian castrati were famous for their use of this singing style. During the time of the Renaissance, the period when opera was created in Italy, bel canto became the singing style used for this new art form. Later, it became famous through use by other operatic singers, notably sopranos. Today, it is sopranos like Joan Sutherland and Kathleen Battle that keep this tradition alive.

Born: Pesaro, Papal States, 29 Feb. 1792 Died: Passy, France (near Paris), 13 Nov. 1868, engraving ...
He occupied an unrivalled position in the Italian musical world of his time, winning considerable success relatively early in his career. The son of a horn-player and a mother who made a career for herself in opera, as a boy he had direct experience of operatic performance, both in the orchestra pit and on stage. His operas from his first relative success in 1810 until 1823 were first performed in Italy. There followed a period of success in Paris, leading to his final opera, Guillaume Tell, staged in Paris in 1829. The revolution of 1830 prevented the fulfillment of French royal commissions for the theatre, but in his later life he continued to enjoy considerable esteem, both in Paris, where he spent much of his last years, and in his native Italy. There he spent the years from 1837 until 1855, before returning finally to France, where he died in 1868.
He wrote three dozen or so operas, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) is probably the best known, a treatment of the first play of the Figaro trilogy by Beaumarchais on which Mozart had drawn thirty years before in Vienna. Other well known comic operas include La Scala di Seta (The Silken Ladder), Il Signor Bruschino, L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers), Il Turco in Italia (The Turk in Italy), La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and La Gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie). More serious subjects were tackled in Otello, Semiramide, Mose in Egitto (Moses in Egypt) and the French Guillaume Tell (William Tell), based on the play by Schiller. The Overtures to many of these operas are a recurrent element in the repertoire of the concert-hall.

QUI EST-IL? WHO IS HE?


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Prénom                                  Nom
First Name                             Second Name

1= B G S                                 1= B K V
2= T H W                                2= D L X
3= C P U                                 3= F N Z
4= A L V                                 4= I2nd S1st
5= N1st Q                                5= J O
6= J O2nd R                             6= H G Y
7= D K Y                                 7= R Q W
8= F M Z                                 8= E P U
9= O1st I X                              9= C I1st T
0= E N2nd                                0= A M S2nd

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