Opera fans at the Torch Theatre in Milford Haven enjoyed a live Met Opera broadcast of Bellini’s I Puritani, the first new Met production ...

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A Romeo and Juliet story set in England in 1645, Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani is all about the bel canto music. It has a stagnant libretto, a mad maiden “scene” that drags over three acts, and a ...

A year after Joan Sutherland shot to fame as Donizetti’s Lucia at Covent Garden, she sang Elvira in Bellini’s I Puritani on the Sussex Downs. Both roles are about young love and madness; both gave her ...

Vincenzo Bellini’s “I Puritani” is set in Plymouth, and that and the title might have you thinking that this 1835 opera, the composer’s last, is the stirring tale of Pilgrims seeking freedom in the ...

There is of course a mad scene or two for heroine Elvira in the original, along with some extended head-shaking and objectifying from her male friends and relations, but otherwise Bellini’s last opera ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The recorded opera, performed live at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall in ...

Since 1955, when Lyric Opera mounted its first production of “I Puritani” to display Maria Callas in one of her most celebrated bel canto roles, Vincenzo Bellini’s final opera has drifted in and out ...

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 ...