Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Real opera stars like Bel Canto, too. Famous opera singer Renee Fleming helped get Bel Canto made into an opera. (Source)
Not a fan of opera? Neither was Ann Patchett before Bel Canto. Check out Patchett's "How To Fall in Love With Opera," included as an afterword in the Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe edition of Bel Canto. (Source)
The opera version of Bel Canto seriously needs Gen. It's written in all the major languages characters speak in the book, including English, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, French, German, Latin, and Quechua. (Source)