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 ...

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 ...

Get a first look at The Metropolitan Opera's 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 masterpiece opens ...

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In this week’s OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and opera expert Eric Skelly discuss Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto standard, I Puritani. Based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel Old Mortality, I ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Opera Review By Anthony Tommasini If you are going to savor the Metropolitan Opera’s welcome revival of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” it is best to put out ...

It has taken Seattle Opera more than four decades to mount Bellini's "I Puritani," waiting, as General Director Speight Jenkins has been saying, for the right quartet of singers. He found them, and so ...

Royal Opera House, London; Welsh National Opera, Cardiff; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London An eclectic production of Gluck’s opera sets the bar high at the ROH, while Bellini finds a new voice in the ...

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Although it is very much an opera for four singers – the original “Puritani quartet” of Grisi, Rubini, Tamburini and Lablache entered into legend – this is essentially Anna Netrebko’s evening. In her ...

It's hard to improve on Puritan chic, but the production finds new Victorian ways to curb aesthetic delight A Civil War opera peopled with Puritans and Cavaliers finds itself desperately in search of ...