Bel Canto Institute

Join Bel Canto Institute in Florence, Italy in 2024! Visit our website for details:

Welcome to Bel Canto Institute – Summer Vocal Programs for Youth and Adults The opportunity to immerse oneself, in a beautiful surrounding, in the study of Bel Canto, a style of singing and playing rich in vocal and orchestral traditions that were not written into the music, but rather handed down from generation to generation.

Go to our website to see what is happening for 2024 Bel Canto Institute Summer Programs in Residence in Florence, Italy:

Welcome to Bel Canto Institute – Summer Vocal Programs for Youth and Adults The opportunity to immerse oneself, in a beautiful surrounding, in the study of Bel Canto, a style of singing and playing rich in vocal and orchestral traditions that were not written into the music, but rather handed down from generation to generation.

Bel Canto Institute had wonderful participants this summer who did very well in classes, concerts, and with the heat!!
Congratulations to you all!!

Check our website for details about our 2023 summer programs in Florence, Italy: www.belcantoinstitute.org

Check our website end of September for updates on the 2023 Summer Programs in Florence, Italy. www.belcantoinstitute.org

Bel Canto Institute will celebrate 30 years of summer programs this summer. Florence, Italy, here we come!!

Bel Canto Institute is a nonprofit organization which was founded in 1987. Our purpose is to teach and perpetuate style and tradition in 19th and 20th Century Italian opera and song through summer programs we hold in Florence, Italy. The founder is Jane Bakken Klaviter, Prompter and Assistant Conductor with the Metropolitan Opera (ret.). Her mentor and friend was the renowned Italian conductor and coach, the late Maestro Luigi Ricci in whose memory Bel Canto Institute was founded. The Youth Division Summer Programs are dedicated to the late Luciano Pavarotti, long time colleague and friend of Jane Klaviter. PLEASE NOTE: Bel Canto Institute has absolutely NO affiliation with and NO likeness to any other organization that uses the words bel canto institute.

We are thrilled with the wonderful participants we have for the 2020 summer programs in Florence, Italy, the birthplace of opera. I am happy to o be able to pass down traditions in Italian opera and song to the next generation of singers. I am proud of them and of the incredible faculty for Bel Canto Institute!

Bel Canto Institute has an amazing group of participants for its 2020 programs in Florence, Italy, the birthplace of opera. I am thrilled to be able to pass tradition on to the next generation of singers. I am proud of them and of Bel Canto Institute's incredible faculty in Florence.

Bel Canto Institute wishes one and all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah and a Happy New Year!!

Bel Canto Institute wishes one and all a very Merry and Blessed Christmas, Happy Chanakah and a Happy New Year!