The Royal Opera will present a new staging of I PURITANI, directed by Olivier Award winner Richard Jones, with soprano ...
Whitefish Theatre Co., in collaboration with the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, presents “I Puritani” as the fifth opera in the 2025-2026 live streaming season of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD.
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 ...
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 ...
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 is all about the voices, and Seattle Opera’s upcoming “I Puritani” will feature a lot of singers people are eager to hear. But costume designer Peter J. Hall, whose long career has included ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...