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As we noted earlier, Bel Canto is typically translated as “beautiful singing,” and is generally used to describe the evolving performance styles of Italian music and singing of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries. This was the time when the amazing castrati ruled Italian opera; when the opera singer was all-powerful and the orchestra's primary purpose was to provide light musical framework in which singers could indulge their vocal fancies in any way that they chose.
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