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Vincenzo Bellini

I puritani

04 Jul, 16 - 24 Jul, 16

Musical conductor: Evelino Pidò

Stage Director: Emilio Sagi

This is the last opera by Bellini. He died prematurely at age 34 when his success with Parisian society was enormous.  In a musical landscape dominated by Italians from Rossini to Donizetti- who was his great rival-  finally Bellini received the commission for an opera which premièred at the Théâtre des Italiens in 1834. The Sicilian composer chose  the historical backdrop of the English civil war between Cromwell and the Roundheads and the Cavaliers to write an intense love story punctuated by passion, betrayal and madness. The opera focuses Elvira. She is  a classic romantic heroine who believes herself incomprehensibly betrayed on her wedding day by her fiancé. Such pain and unbearable suffering causes Elvira to have a mental collapse. Madness was a characteristic feature in Romanticism: physical frailty and social isolation of characters was a way to emphasize the expression of irrepressibly powerful emotions. In this stylised staging by Emilio Sagi, these souls are overcome with melancholy.
Subtitles in

Spanish, English

Melodramma serio in three acts

Libretto by Carlo Pepoli, based on the play Têtes rondes et cavaliers (1833) by Jacques-François Ancelot and Jacques-Xavier Saintine
First performed at the Théâtre Italien de París on 24 January 1835
Premièred at the Teatro Real on 6 December 1850

A new production by the Teatro Real, co-produced with the Municipal Theatre of Santiago de Chile

Releases

Patron friends

26 March

2016

Subscribers friend

31 March

2016

Tickets on sale

05 April

2016

Performances

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05 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Nicolas Testé, Javier Camarena, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Lozano, Annalisa Stroppa, Diana Damrau
Subscription tickets E

15 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Nicolas Testé, Javier Camarena, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Lozano, Annalisa Stroppa, Diana Damrau
Subscription tickets A

18 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Nicolas Testé, Javier Camarena, George Petean, Antonio Lozano, Annalisa Stroppa, Diana Damrau
Subscription tickets B

07 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Roberto Tagliavini, Celso Albelo, George Petean, Antonio Lozano, Cassandre Berthon, Venera Gimadieva
Subscription tickets C

21 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Nicolas Testé, Javier Camarena, Damiano Salerno, Antonio Lozano, Annalisa Stroppa, Venera Gimadieva
Subscription tickets D

12 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Nicolas Testé, Javier Camarena, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Lozano, Annalisa Stroppa, Venera Gimadieva
Subscription tickets -

25 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Nicolas Testé, Javier Camarena, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Lozano, Annalisa Stroppa, Diana Damrau
Subscription tickets G

08 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Nicolas Testé, Javier Camarena, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Lozano, Annalisa Stroppa, Diana Damrau
Subscription tickets H

20 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Roberto Tagliavini, Celso Albelo, George Petean, Antonio Lozano, Cassandre Berthon, Venera Gimadieva
Subscription tickets Y

14 July 2016

00:00

Main Auditorium

Miklós Sebestyén, Roberto Tagliavini, Celso Albelo, George Petean, Antonio Lozano, Cassandre Berthon, Venera Gimadieva
Subscription tickets Z

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28 de junio de 2016, 20.15 horas. Sala Gayarre
 

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2016

20:15

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2016

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