The Metropolitan Opera has released production photos from its 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 ...

If you want to see an opera based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” head for Gounod’s version of the piece. with its famous waltz and series of duets. Bellini’s I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI is not it.

Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars. By Joshua Barone The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I ...

On I puritani, by Bellini, at the Metropolitan Opera. It has been a good season at the Met for “the sweet Sicilian,” as Wagner called Bellini. The company had already staged La sonnambula. (For my ...

This image released by the Metropolitan Opera shows Lisette Oropesa, as Elvira, during a rehearsal for Bellini's "I Puritani" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Dec. 22, 2025. NEW YORK (AP) — ...

Vincenzo Bellini's "La Sonnambula" is the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday. The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema. The encore will be broadcast at 7 ...

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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 ...

The soprano appeared in more than two dozen productions at the house in Milan as she rose to become opera’s leading lady. Here are six highlights. By Farah Nayeri Mario Bellini, Gaetano Pesce and ...