Read our review of Bellini's opera *I puritani*, now in performances at the Royal Opera House to 19 July. Read more theatre ...

Bellini’s tale of Roundheads vs Cavaliers requires vocal gymnastics on an Olympic scale. Lisette Oropesa rises effortlessly to the challenge in Richard Jones’s detailed new production ...

Others survive because extraordinary singers keep making the case for them. Richard Jones’ new production of I Puritani ...

While the country house opera season is in full swing, the Royal Opera has mounted a major new production of Bellini’s final ...

I Puritani at Royal Opera: Lisette Oropesa is astounding - 4/5 Bellini’s I Puritani lands at Royal Opera with a ...

Thirty-four years is a long time to leave an opera in the attic, and I puritani has spent most of that period gathering dust ...

Bellini did pull the drama off, with a concise series of dramatic confrontations, in his greatest opera, Norma; here the plot gets off to a slow start, most of an over-long first act devoted to ...

Performances are now underway for The Metropolitan Opera's new staging of Vincenzo Bellini’s I Puritani, marking the company’s first new production of the opera in nearly 50 years. Find out what the ...

Bellini’s 1835 opera is set during the English Civil War in the Puritan stronghold of Plymouth. Governor Sir Gualtiero Valton ...

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 ...

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 ...