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 ...

Opera Orlando has released first look footage of THE MERRY WIDOW, Franz Lehár's effervescent operetta playing two performances only at Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

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 ...

At a time when the whole of Europe was obsessed by Romanticism, what nation did not dream of Italy? Goethe's Mignon sings of the Sicilian countryside where an orange tree in full bloom can be seen ...

Let's get the bad news out of the way. There was just the one performance of I puritani . If you missed it, I am sorry, because this was in every respect a tremendously involving experience. I ...

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 ...

Royal Opera House, London; Welsh National Opera, Cardiff; Queen Elizabeth Hall, London An eclectic production of Gluck’s opera sets the bar high at the ROH, while Bellini finds a new voice in the ...

I puritani (The Puritans) is an 1835 opera 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 ...

The complete cast includes bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira's uncle Giorgio, bass-baritone David Pittsinger as her father Gaultiero, and mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti as the Princess ...

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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 ...

Any Italian opera with a heroine who goes mad and recovers her sanity twice over is going to need some calm and clarifying directorial assistance, while a libretto that locates Plymouth in Scotland is ...