I puritani (The Puritans)

Composer: Bellini, Vincenzo

Librettist/Text Author: Pepoli, Carlo

Conductor: Benzi, Manlio

Orchestra: Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra

Chorus: Stuttgart State Opera Chorus

Elvira: Durlovski, Ana

Enrichetta di Francia: Haller, Diana

Lord Arturo Talbo: Barbera, Rene

Lord Gualtiero Valton: Bracht, Roland

Sir Giorgio Valton: Palka, Adam

Sir Riccardo Forth: Gohrig, Heinz

Sir Riccardo Forth: Myshketa, Gezim

Set Designer: Viebrock, Anna

Costume Designer: Viebrock, Anna

Lighting Designer: Traub, Reinhard

Stage Director: Wieler, Jossi

Stage Director: Morabito, Sergio

Television Director: Richardt, Marcus

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Date of Production: 03-2018

Venue: Staatstheater Stuttgart

Playing Time: 03:10:42

Catalogue Number: 2.110598-99

UPC: 747313559855

Synopsis

I puritani (The Puritans)

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I puritani's is one of Bellini's most creative and influential masterpieces, a bel canto opera stamped with vocal and orchestral writing of intoxicating beauty and dramatic intensity. Set in England in the Civil War shortly before Oliver Cromwell's triumph, it involves romantic and political intrigues that drew from Bellini music of melodic raptness and melancholic depth. It also inspired him to composes some of his most breathtakingly virtuosic passages, notably Elvira's Mad Scene, that call for the utmost in theatrical power. This production includes for the first tome all the music performed a the work's Paris premiere.