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I Puritani

Elvira (Désirée Rancatore) thinks her fiance is cheating on her -- but he's really saving the exiled Queen.

Vienna State Opera

October 2, 2010, 1:00 pm

Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Conductor: Jan Latham-Koenig

 

Cast: Désirée Rancatore (Elvira); José Bros (Arturo Talbot); Alexandru Moisiuc (Gualtier Walton); Christof
Fischesser (Giorgio); Mariusz Kwiecien (Riccardo Forth); Benedikt Kobel (Bruno Robertson); Roxana Constantinescu (Queen Henrietta Maria)

 

When Bellini moved to Paris in the 1830s, he declared that French composers and opera lovers had "little understanding of real song." He apparently decided to remedy that with I Puritani -- Bellini's first opera for Paris and the last opera he composed before his death at age 33 -- is blessed by a raft of his finest melodies.

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