Bel Canto Quotes

When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her….Not only was everyone there certain of a kiss, they claimed they could identify the type of kiss: it was strong and passionate, and it took he...

When the lights went off the accompanist kissed her….Not only was everyone there certain of a kiss, they claimed they could identify the type of kiss: it was strong and passionate, and it took he...

Some of them had loved her for years. They had every recording she had ever made. They kept a notebook and wrote down every place they had seen her, listing the music, the names of the cast, the co...

Too often in these moments of listening he [Father Arguedas] had felt his soul fill with a kind of rapture,a feeling he could not name but was disquieted by—longing? Love? Early in his seminary t...

At the conference he [Gen] spoke in Greek for Mr. Hosokawa and his associates, spoke in Japanese to them, and was, in all matters, intelligent, quick, and professional. But it was not his presence...

"I'll sing in the dark," Roxane Coss called out, "if someone will get me a candle." (1.20)

Tiny people, insects, really, slipped out from behind the curtains, opened their mouths, and with their voices gilded the walls with their yearning, their grief, their boundless, reckless love that...

Never in a lifetime would Gen have come to her [Roxane] on his own. Never would he find the courage to express his own sympathies and remorse, in the same way that Mr. Hosokawa would not have the c...