The Royal Opera will present a new staging of I PURITANI, directed by Olivier Award winner Richard Jones, with soprano ...

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I puritani (The Puritans) is an opera in 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 had ...

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 ...

Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio from the Met Opera's production of Madama Butterfly. (more...) ...

Bellini’s bel canto lyrical jewel. The final work from Vincenzo Bellini explores with powerful results the relationship of civil strife and individual madness. The opera is set in the English Civil ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forget the plot. You’re there for the melodies and the voices. Bellini’s “I Puritani,” presented for the first time in Seattle, is not exactly a masterpiece of theatrical coherence, with its ...

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 ...