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NEW YORK (AP) — Lisette Oropesa impresses Peter Gelb as more than a singer. “She reminds me a little bit of Beverly Sills,” the Metropolitan Opera general manager said. “She seems to have that kind of ...

The Metropolitan Opera has released production photos from its new staging of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani, marking the company’s first new production of the opera in nearly 50 years. The bel canto ...

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 ...

When orchestral textures were spare at Friday's opening, Bellini's vocal lines came through largely in elegant fashion. "I Puritani" demands singers well-versed in bel canto style, with its ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a live broadcast of Bellini’s I Puritani, a bel canto classic set amid the turbulence of ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Lisette Oropesa impresses Peter Gelb as more than a singer. “She reminds me a little bit of Beverly Sills,” the Metropolitan Opera general manager said. “She seems to have that kind of ...

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 ...