Bel Canto is a
chain
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of
restaurant
A restaurant is a business that prepares and serves food and drinks to customers. Meals are generally served and eaten on the premises, but many restaurants also offer take-out and food delivery services. Restaurants vary greatly in appearan ...
s, based in
Paris,
France, where singers perform live
opera arias for the diners.
Concept
Bel Canto employs
opera singers as waiters and waitresses. The singers usually work in groups of four, and every 15 minutes a different opera aria is performed.
As of 2008, Bel Canto employed 50 singers and 10 pianists.
The restaurants are decorated in red and gold velvet, with
musical instrument
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s and opera costumes lining the walls.
History
The first Bel Canto restaurant opened in Paris in 1999, and since then another restaurant opened in Paris, and a third in
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...
.
After an unsuccessful attempt in La City,
London, in 2008, Bel Canto London opened in Corus Grand Hotel Hyde Park in 2009.
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