The Florentine Opera's production of Vincenzo Bellini's "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" ("Romeo and Juliet") runs this weekend and according to Florentine's Amy Erato, the three performances -- 7:30 p.m.

While it might seem surprising, Vincenzo Bellini's The Capulets and the Montagues is a true rarity: a successful opera based on the celebrated tale of Romeo and Juliet. At first glance, you would ...

At a time when most opera companies remain silent, Palm Beach Opera continued its remarkably innovative season with a memorable semi-staged production of Vincenzo Bellini's "I Capuletti e i Montecchi" ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In the same year that Darwin set sail in his Beagle, Bellini rocked the Milan opera world with not one but two operas. The Sicilian was just thirty years old and at the absolute pinnacle of his ...