Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars. By Joshua Barone The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I ...
I puritani (The Puritans) is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer ...
Live from the New York Met, Bellini's operatic depiction of madness, I Puritani. Brought together by love, and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, the soprano Lisette Oropesa ...
Franz Liszt channels the bel canto excess of opera composer Vincenzo Bellini, in his "Reminiscences of 'Norma.'" It's a bravura piano work for the salon, played by pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin at the ...
The soprano appeared in more than two dozen productions at the house in Milan as she rose to become opera’s leading lady. Here are six highlights. By Farah Nayeri Mario Bellini, Gaetano Pesce and ...