The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini’s lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history ...

The Met’s new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s I PURITANI made its debut on New Year’s Eve, but I caught up with it at its ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Bellini’s I Puritani.

A new rehearsal video features soprano Lisette Oropesa performing an excerpt from Elvira’s Act II aria in I PURITANI. The ...

Lisette Oropesa impresses Metropolitan Opera's Peter Gelb with her talent and intellect. Gelb compares her to Beverly Sills, ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues at 1 p.m. with a live broadcast of Bellini’s I Puritani, a bel canto classic set amid the ...

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 ...

A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

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 ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In the pit on Tuesday night was Maurizio Benini, the veteran Italian. The overture was sturdy and energetic.

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 ...

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 ...