I puritani discography
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Recordings of Bellini's 1835 opera
This is a list of audio and video recordings of I puritani (The Puritans), an opera in three acts by Vincenzo Bellini with a libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli, based on Têtes Rondes et Cavaliers (Roundheads and Cavaliers), a historical play written by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine and set in the English Civil War. It was premiered on 24 January 1835 by the Théâtre-Italien at the first Salle Favart in Paris.
Video recordings
| Year | Cast (Elvira, Arturo, Riccardo, Giorgio) |
Conductor, Opera house and orchestra |
Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo [it], John Relyea | Patrick Summers, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Production: Sandro Sequi; set designer: Ming Cho Lee; costume designer: Peter J. Hall;[6] recorded live, 6 January) | Blu-ray/DVD: DG[7] Online: Met Opera on Demand[8] |
| 2009 | Nino Machaidze, Juan Diego Flórez, Gabriele Viviani, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo | Michele Mariotti, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Stage director: Pier'Alli; recorded live, Teatro Comunale) | Blu-ray/DVD: Decca [9][10] |
| 2009 | Mariola Cantarero, John Osborn, Scott Hendricks, Riccardo Zanellato | Giuliano Carella, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Dutch National Opera (Stage director: Francisco Negrin; recorded live, February; Paris version) | Blu-ray/DVD: Opus Arte[11][10] Online: medici.tv[12] |
| 2016 | Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena, Ludovic Tézier, Nicolas Testé | Evelino Pidò, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, Madrid (Stage director: Emilio Sagi; recorded live, July 2016) | Blu-ray/DVD: BelAir Classiques[13] Online: medici.tv[14] |
| 2018 | Ana Durlovski, René Barbera, Gëzim Myshketa, Adam Palka | Manlio Benzi, Stuttgart State Orchestra, Stuttgart State Opera Chorus (Stage directors: Jossi Wieler & Sergio Morabito; recorded live, 17 & 24 July) | Blu-ray/DVD/Online: Naxos[15][16] |
References
- ↑ Recordings of I puritani on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk (archive copy: 2 April 2023)
- ↑ John Ardoin (1977). The Callas Legacy, p. 43. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ↑ Opera Depot gives the recording date as 27 January 1971 (on image of CD cover).
- ↑ Robert Levine, Fanfare, September/October 1994, p. 143.
- ↑ Pines, R. Review of I puritani. Opera, May 2025, p.766-767.
- ↑ I puritani, 27 December 2006, Met Opera Database.
- ↑ 2007 Met Opera video: Blu-ray: OCLC 525349350; DVD: ASIN B000Y9M09G. Review: Patrick O'Connor, Gramophone, March 2008, p. 90.
- ↑ I Puritani, 6 January 2007", Met Opera on Demand.
- ↑ 2009 Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Blu-ray (OCLC 1076489082, ASIN B00INIDHR4.
- 1 2 Riccardo Rocca (2015). I puritani, Amsterdam, De Nederlandse Opera 2009; I puritani, Bologna, Teatro Comunale 2010. Bollettino di Studi Belliniani, 1:151–156. (in Italian).
- ↑ 2009 Dutch National Opera video: Blu-ray, ASIN B008REG7BW; DVD, OCLC 822338241.
- ↑ 2009 Dutch National Opera video, medici.tv.
- ↑ Richard Lawrence, Review of 2016 Teatro Real video, Gramophone , February 2018, p. 84.
- ↑ 2016 Teatro Real video, medici.tv.
- ↑ 2018 Stuttgart State Opera video Naxos product page.
- ↑ Neil Fisher, Review of 2018 Stuttgart video, Gramophone , June 2019, p. 94: "The flight into a historical fantasy is a decent idea but there is too much gestural theatre here; fine performances are boxed into sloppy choreography"; "The voices are strong, and the incisive conducting by Manlio Benzi is idiomatic and propulsive".
Sources
- Recordings of I puritani on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk (archive copy: 2 April 2023)
- Ardoin, John (1977). The Callas Legacy. New York: Charels Scribner's Sons. ISBN 0-684-15297-5.
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