For the new Metropolitan Opera production of Vincenzo Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” (1831), which opened on Monday, tenor-turned-director Rolando Villazón came up with a concept that dealt thoughtfully ...

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 ...

While the country house opera season is in full swing, the Royal Opera has mounted a major new production of Bellini’s final opera, I puritani, for the first time in 35 years. R ...

Shakespeare has nothing to do with Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” which is based on a different version of the Romeo and Juliet story. But let’s quote the Bard anyway: “O Romeo, Romeo, ...

The In Series production of the opera “La Sonnambula” opens at Source Theatre (1835 14th St., N.W.) Sunday at 3 p.m. and runs through Jan. 25. The classic 1831 work by composer Vincenzo Bellini (which ...

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 ...

Bellini's last opera, I Puritani, places huge demands on the leading singers but Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa ...

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) became one of the greatest composers of ‘bel canto’ operas – he has also given his name to a cocktail and inspired a Sicilian pasta dish. But what are the ingredients of a ...

The Dallas Opera is thrilled to present-for the first time on our stage-Vincenzo Bellini's suspense-filled masterpiece of the bel canto repertoire, NORMA, starring the phenomenal South African-born ...

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 ...