Bellini: I Puritani (3-CD) – Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee
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Bellini: I Puritani (3-CD) – Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee
Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
Artists: Lisette Oropesa, Lawrence Brownlee, Anthony Clark Evans, Riccardo Zanellato, MDR-Rundfunkchor, Dresdner Philharmonie
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Number of Discs: 3
Label: Euroarts
Release Date: November 15, 2024
I Puritani is the last great masterpiece of the exceptional Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini. The intelligently conceived and thoroughly thrilling historical drama, written by the Italian librettist Conte Carlo Pepoli (1796-1881), concerns the fiery romantic intrigue between Elvira, the daughter of a Puritan, and the royalist Arturo.
Bellini’s rapturous music, full of melancholic intensity, is a delight to listen to as performed by Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee. The opera is considered a showcase piece for soprano and tenor and holds its own in the rich operatic landscape of the 19th century, especially with its high-pitched passages and bel canto pleasure at its finest.
History
Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani
Bellini’s last opera, a love story set against the background of the English Civil War in the 1640s, is a vocal showcase that features another of the composer’s great mad scenes for the leading soprano. The work’s 1835 premiere starred four of the most prominent singers of the day who afterwards became known as the “Puritani quartet.”
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