Welcome to Bel Cantanti, an opera company within the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area devoted to giving performance experience to both seasoned and aspiring professionals. Between the beautiful singing and glorious music, you will find yourself thoroughly captivated.
"The future of opera as fun rather than spectacle or museum piece, lies with such groups as Bel Cantanti Opera."
"Bel Cantanti… reaffirmed the belief that we are living in a golden age of opera and the hope that opera in America has a promising feature. Bel Cantanti … makes the special magic of opera happen.”
“… an absolute delight for opera aficionados and the perfect opportunity for timid newbies to be surprised at just how much fun opera can be.”
Every BCO performance usually includes a few members of the cast from out of town. We always need volunteers who would be willing to open their homes to welcome these singers and provide housing for them during three weeks of the rehearsals and performances.
Bel Cantanti does not use extensive sets, but even modest platforms, arches, stairscases need building, adjusting, painting. We would like to have stage crew volunteers in order to help us design, build, run and strike the performances.
The amount of people attending our performances depends on constant work in public relations and promotions: spreading the word to others, puting up the posters, sending emails to the friends and just telling people about us. Our survival depends on you.
We always need professional engineers to help us to capture the performances and rehearsals, volunteers who would donate their time and skills in order to make our work more presentable for you.
Light design is an important part of the each BCO performance. It helps so much to express the emotions and beauty of the music. We need profesionals and volunteers to help design the shows.
Our costume designer, Kathleen McGhee is always looking for people who know how to design and build costumes. Every costume that we rent or build ourselves needs a lot of alterations and care. Let us know if you like to sew and would like to help.
One of the most important activities of Bel Cantanti Opera board is finding financial recourses in order to support the company. Only part of our budget is covered by the ticket sales. Research grant possibilities, writing the applications, finding the organizations and connecting us with the people who are willing to sponcor and support BCO financially is the most important part of our life and survival in these economics.
We all are enthusiasts of the Opera. We love it, serve it, give it all our time. We are looking for people who share our love for the Opera. Let us know who you are. We would like to invite those people to Bel Cantanti Opera board.
We will contact you once your request is processed and discuss with you what you can do to help us. Thanks in advance!