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On opening night of Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” at West Bay Opera, I found myself mesmerized by the music The orchestra performed beautifully under the baton of José Luis Moscovich, as always at West ...

George Hall, translator of ENO’s first ever production of the Bellini opera, faced many linguistic challenges in his quest for clarity Opera in 19th-century Italy achieved the feat of being both high ...

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.

Shakespeare has nothing to do with Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” which is based on a different version of the Romeo and Juliet story. But let’s quote the Bard anyway: “O Romeo, Romeo, ...

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 ...

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) became one of the greatest composers of ‘bel canto’ operas – he has also given his name to a cocktail and inspired a Sicilian pasta dish. But what are the ingredients of a ...

Spain's national library said today that it had discovered a rare fragment of an opera score handwritten by 19th-century Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini lying within its archives. The single page of ...

In the spring of 1835, the poet Heinrich Heine met the composer Vincenzo Bellini at the fashionable salon of the Princess Belgiojoso in Paris. The two men did not, it would seem, hit it off. Heine, a ...