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NEW YORK — Forget the crazy opera plots. Simply putting on an opera is melodrama enough, given sensitive vocal cords, illnesses, jet-age scheduling and difficult scores. The Metropolitan Opera staged ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vincenzo Bellini was born in Sicily in 1801 and wrote three great operas, among others, before his death in 1835, when his final opera, "I Puritani," premiered. During its nearly 45 years, Seattle ...

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 ...

I've mentioned my colleague Mark Mandel before -- he who knows all, hears all, about opera. He doesn't often rave like this: Friends, If you possibly can, go to Seattle for "I Puritani" Wednesday or ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. I puritani (The Puritans) is an opera in by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and ...

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 ...

The most rabid opera fans don’t really need the luxury of sets and costumes, let alone any trendy directorial concepts, to enjoy the art form. They can be perfectly content with an audio-only format.

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 ...