Bellini did pull the drama off, with a concise series of dramatic confrontations, in his greatest opera, Norma; here the plot gets off to a slow start, most of an over-long first act devoted to ...

Bellini’s tale of Roundheads vs Cavaliers requires vocal gymnastics on an Olympic scale. Lisette Oropesa rises effortlessly to the challenge in Richard Jones’s detailed new production ...

I Puritani at Royal Opera: Lisette Oropesa is astounding - 4/5 Bellini’s I Puritani lands at Royal Opera with a ...

Thirty-four years is a long time to leave an opera in the attic, and I puritani has spent most of that period gathering dust ...

While the country house opera season is in full swing, the Royal Opera has mounted a major new production of Bellini’s final ...

Read our review of Bellini's opera *I puritani*, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 19 July. Read more theatre ...

Others survive because extraordinary singers keep making the case for them. Richard Jones’ new production of I Puritani ...

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 ...

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