Bel Cantanti Opera 2007 Bel Cantanti is performing a concert version of Humperdinck's "Hänsel und Gretel". Bel Cantanti and its young performers, coached by Katerina Souvorova, have garnered excellent reviews over the years in "The Washington Post", "The Washington Times", Ionarts.blogspot.com, and other local papers. Bel Cantanti Opera Bel Cantanti is an American opera company under the direction of Dr. Katerina Souvorova. It was formed in 2003 to give performance opportunities to operatic talent in the Washington, D.C. area. It has produced fully staged operas and gala events with young professionals since 2003. The productions has been in a variety of venues including:
Fierrabras (opera) Fierrabras (opera) Fierrabras, 796, is a three-act German opera with spoken dialogue written by the composer Franz Schubert in 1823, to a libretto by , the general manager of the Theater am Kärntnertor (Vienna's Court Opera Theatre). Along with the earlier "Alfonso und Estrella", composed in 1822, it marks Schubert's attempt to compose grand Romantic opera in German, departing from the Singspiel tradition. The Kärntnertor Theater in 1822 commissioned operas from Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber in a drive to increase the number of German operas in repertoire. Schubert fulfilled his commission with "Fierrabras", von Weber his with "Euryanthe".