I Puritani

Synopsis

It's hard to imagine a video opera collection without this superbly sung MET production of Bellini's I Puritani. Not that it's perfect by any means, but its excellences--most especially Anna Netrebko's electrifying singing and acting of Elvira--banish carping about other aspects of this memorable night at the opera. Netrebko is fragile from the start, her facial expressions and hand movements immediately conveying the girl's vulnerability. She has a mad scene in each act; the first when she realizes her fiancé has disappeared with another woman, the third, in the final act, a brief relapse when her returned fiancé is taken by the army to be executed. But it's in the second act that the real fireworks occur, with a Mad Scene that rivals Donizetti's Lucia for bel canto primacy. Here, Elvira is first heard off-stage, after the chorus has informed us that she's deranged. She enters wearing her wedding gown and begins Qui la voce in a voice as frail as her psyche.

Main Cast

Eric Cutler

Lord Arturo Talbo

Age : 49 | Popularity : 0%

Anna Netrebko

Elvira

Age : 53 | Popularity : 20%

John Relyea

Sir Giorgio

Age : 52 | Popularity : 3%

Valerian Ruminski

Lord Gualtiero Valton

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Franco Vassallo

Sir Riccardo Forth

Age : 55 | Popularity : 1%

Maria Zifchak

Enrichetta di Francia

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Eduardo Valdes

Sir Bruno Roberton

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Patrick Summers

Conductor

Age : 61 | Popularity : 0%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Crew	Compositors	Vincenzo Bellini
Directing	Director	Sandro Sequi
Department	Role	Name

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